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Helping Spinal Cord-injured Survivors Develop Their Potential to Start a Second Life
Life after injuring cannot only be difficult. Through life-rebuilding and vocational training, the Taoyuan City Potential Development Center for Spinal Cord Injury accompanies injured survivors from helplessness to self-reliance, opening them to a brand-new journey from recipients to helpers.
A Three-Part Approach to Help Lost Youths Return to Society
Misguided youths don't have to be excluded from society. Just giving them an opportunity; they can even solve social problems. The Taiwan Against Wind Reintegration Association has taken the social responsibility by assisting youths from "empowerment" to "reintegration." The ultimate goal is to help marginalized youth believe that they can change, reintegrate into society, and become a helping hand to disadvantaged groups.
Cooperative Economy Supports A "Common Good" Umbrella for Small Coffee Farmers
Taiwu Township in Pingtung County has the widest fields of wild coffee trees in Taiwan, building a fair trade and mutual benefit platform through the "Cooperatives." The model allows indigenous coffee smallholders (farmers) to earn reasonable incomes, steady local employment, and economic development. It further integrates the tribe culture into the coffee industry to develop tourism and create a common good and prosperity for the whole township.
Agricultural Waste is A Good Business-A Green Action Starting from Guantian
In Guantian, Tainan, farmers often piled up water caltrop shells along the field ridges after the autumn and winter harvest. In the early days, without the environmental awareness, those wasted shells were often secretly burned, producing thick smoke that damaged the air and soil year after year. So far, those wasted black water caltrop shells had disappeared from the field ridges since they had become charcoals, the famous "Black Gold," a biochar that can purify air and improve soils. The change is a mutually beneficial experiment combining local wisdom with the circular economy.
Using a Business Mindset to Cultivate Working Skills for Disadvantaged Children and Adolescents
Ms. Fang Jia-qi has devoted herself to the education field by selling supplementary teaching materials for over 40 years. She understood deeply the importance of introducing a broader range of corporate and volunteer forces to stimulate the potential of children in rural areas, thereby creating more possibilities for them. Love Life Cultural and Educational Foundation teaches those children the knowledge of "Helping yourself and others will help you" in action, leading them to the path of ending poverty and welcoming a wonderful life.
"Organic Stacking" Successfully Creates a Model of "Art and Life Coexist"
Located in the southern part of Taipei City, Treasure Hill Culture Village has transformed from a likely military dependents' settlement into a community experimentation ground where art and life coexist. The Treasure Hill Culture Village Association, spontaneously established by the residents, centers on the core concept of "Artist-Resident Symbiosis and Community Culture." Through cultural activities, it connects artistic creation, community participation, and local economic development, shaping an operational model that integrates revitalization and life. Through the community's lifestyle and culture, it illustrates the process of urban development.