What are Our Beliefs to Launch "2007Gap Summer World Better" - Children’s Home International Volunteer Summer Program?
“The 2007 Gap Summer World Better- Children’s Home International Volunteer” summer program is organized by CCSA (Chinese Children’s home & Shelter Association) and the College of Foreign Languages and Literature of NCCU (National Chengchi University).
As estimated by the Children’s Bureau Minister of Interior, R.O.C, now 1,997 children and young people in Taiwan live in children’s homes. 35% of them had suffered from physical, emotional, or sexual abuse or being neglected in their biological families. Also around 35% of them are out of family care due to financial crisis. 23% of them were facing a family breakdown and 7% of them are orphans. Do these children deserve only to have shelters to live in? Are they deprived their opportunities to be persons with international perspectives due to their family backgrounds? Personally, I do not agree with it. I believe that they deserve to have the same opportunities to build up their global hearts. Not only social welfare organizations can contribute to this program but also every individual can put his own efforts in it.
Truly speaking, the institutional-setting living environment is more closed compared to the family-setting particularly, in interpersonal connection. These young people in children’s homes have less personal support network even though they have family units, uncles or aunts. In addition, it’s a popular trend to talk about “globalization”, issues either in the schools or in the families. However, children in children’s homes do not have opportunities to expose themselves in various nations to learn different cultures customs.
As a result, our association, CCSA, has been calling for international students from NCCU to join this volunteer program. International volunteers will work with children and young people in Taiwan children’s homes for five weeks in terms of culture sharing, language exchange and friendship buildup. Through international students’ eyes, children and young people in Taiwan children’s homes will learn a wide range of exotic cultures, and by means of day-to-day interaction with them, these internationals will be able to learn some Taiwanese culture as well.
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