CYCU Develop New Southbound Policy to Exchange with Brunei and Provide Service to Kids in Cambodia
CYCU overseas volunteers head for Cambodia to help the local children improve the educational environment in summer vacation each year (Photo provided by CYCU)
News of Educational Institution
Reporter/Author: Chinese Christian Tribune Date: 2018-01-07
[News] CYCU has achieved remarkable results in the promotion of the New Southbound Policy. It established the “New Southbound Office” and moved forward to the Chinese high school in Brunei, “Chung Hua Middle School Kuala Belait”, where the University students were assigned to lead the local junior high school and senior high school students to attend the cultural camp. The “We Are Family – Chinese Culture Experience Workshop” by CYCU refers to the 3-day courses designed by 19 teachers and students from different departments of CYCU in the form of Service-Learning. The senior student of Department of Applied Linguistics and Language Studies participating in the activity, Hung Yi-Jou, revealed that all of them had to verify the local custom and tradition, and characteristics and formation of students of the Chinese school at first, and then discussed, modified and thought about how to design the courses integrating traditional Chinese culture for 2~3 weeks. The 9th-grade student of Chung Hua Middle School Kuala Belait participating in making of facial masks and dough figurine, Danica, said that “As a Filipino, I am so happy to participate in the interesting cultural activity and know more about the cultures of China and Taiwan.”
“We Are Family – Chinese Culture Experience Workshop”
Director of CYCU New Southbound Policy Office, Huang Wen-Tsung, mentioned that in order to promote the New Southbound Policy, CYCU values the personnel training and international exchange very much and also hopes to pass the spirit upheld by CYCU in promoting Service-Learning and CYCU’s creative teaching methods on to more overseas schools to enable Taiwanese students to learn more about SEA countries and develop their vision and global view.
Meanwhile, CYCU teachers and students who were engaged in the Service-Learning in Cambodia in summer vacation in 2017 found that it was so rainy locally and most of the rural area children went to school exposing in the rain. When returning back to Taiwan, they founded the “Sunshine Taskforce” and initiated the raincoat raising project to raise raincoats and fund in school, and also set up the website “Love for Cambodia and Sun After Rain” (https://mnya.tw/sunshine) based on their profession, in hopes of extending the charity and kindness collected from the public to the rural area children in Cambodia.
The member, Ou Chia-Jung, said that “as a child living in Taiwan provided with abundant resources, it was difficult for her to image that one could not go to school without a raincoat; the project could enable more people to know about the life in Cambodia and cherish we what they own currently.”
