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5.2.5 Project to help remotely-located children fulfill their dreams
Majorprojectsin2015includedtoursforselectedelementaryschools.Theseschoolsintheprogram
are located in remote areas, with many children never having the opportunity to visit large cities. Their
perspectives are limited to their environment, which tends to consist largely of countryside only. Their
only source of exposure, contact and understanding is delivered through televised media and books.
Children do have an interest in exploring Taipei as well as learning through the experience of dierent
livingenvironments.Inordertoexpandtheoutlookofstudents,andtocreatenewvisionswithrespect
to charity, we hope to act as the pilot to encourage and spread charity in the society; accordingly, there
was a series of dream realization programs for Hualien, where students of the elementary schools were
invitedtolisttheirwishesforatriptotheNorthofTaiwanfor3daysand2nights:
a) TaipeiZooTourforMing-LiElementarySchool,HualienCounty:Studentsherewishedforavisit
toTaipeiZoo,whichwasfollowedontheseconddaybyavisittotheCoca-ColaCompanyand
ShayyerobotinTaoyuan,andbakingcookies.Onthethirdday,theyvisitedthePresidentialPalace
andenjoyeda“HappyLunch”atMcDonald’s.
b) Tour of National Taiwan Science Education Center for Dayu Elementary School: Students wished
for a visit to the National Taiwan Science Education Center in Taipei, which was followed on the
second day by a visit to the Coca-Cola Company and Shayyerobot in Taoyuan, and baking cookies.
Onthethirdday,theyvisitedthePresidentialPalaceandenjoyeda“HappyLunch”atMcDonald’s.
Anotherelementoftheprojectinvolvedtheprovisionofsportsequipment.Baseballisanationalsport
in Taiwan, and is a common pastime in the West as a recreational activity. However, due to various
factors and scarce resources, it is considered a luxury for children in remote areas to possess the
required equipment for participation. Activities included:
a) Yuan-Cheng Elementary School, Yuli Township, Hualien County: Tsung-Yi Liu, the principal of
Yuan-Cheng Elementary School, Yuli Township, Hualien County had the precise intention of
collecting a set of baseball equipment in October 2014 for the immediate purpose of allowing his
students to gain an overall understanding of baseball. Upon receiving this message, we materialized
the realization with assistance from friends within the baseball (softball) circle. Through assistance
providedbythecoachofthebaseballteamofGuangMingJuniorHighSchool,TaoyuanCityandthe
director-general of Wugu Softball Alliance, a set of equipment was collected, and delivered to Yuan-
ChengElementarySchoolonMarch11,2015.Theacademicdirectorandthedirectorofgeneral
aairsacceptedthedonationasrepresentatives.Intotal,25gloves,5bats,onestrikinghelmetand
500 balls were donated.
b) WanningElementarySchool,FuliTownship,HualienCounty:37pairsofsneakersandnetsfor
practice field were donated.
ManystudentslivinginremoteareasinHualienhavefewopportunitiestoleavetheirhometownto
explore natural landscape in other regions of Taiwan; therefore, the HTC public welfare team assisted
Chuan-LiChu,whorecorded<3DTaiwan>,tovisitelementaryschoolsthathavelongbeencaredforby
HTC in remote areas in Hualien and in Taitung, for a tour performance of which the outcome allowed
students in remote areas to also experience beautiful natural landscape in Taiwan through the high
technologyof3Dactiontrain.
5.2.6 Service for elderly by community volunteers
Theserviceobjectswereapproximately50eldersfromDapengNewCommunity.Intheintroduction,
our sta led and demonstrated for elders a step by step easy-to-learn anti-fall health exercise so as
to bring closer the distance between our sta and the elders, followed by instructions on how to use
smartphones.Initially,onevolunteeringstaintroducedpracticalandeasyoperation/settingforphone
functions,including“zoomin”,“voiceinput”,“TaipeiBusInquiringAPP”and“weatherforecast”,in
great detail, while all other sta were responsible for 1-on-2 close operation assistance.
5.2.7 Let love migrate - surprise shoe box
Inthewinterof2015,the“SurpriseShoeBoxActivity”wassponsored.HTCstawereaskedtocollect
shoeboxesasgiftsfor400elementary/juniorhighschoolchildrenofsingle-parentfamilieslivingin
remote mountain aboriginal tribes. Furthermore, HTC sta and vendors cooperated to deliver the
shoes to the 400 children in person, in order to make these children of single-parent families appreciate
the love behind the gift given to them.