CYCU International Volunteer Group Start Sailing to Communicate Love to Cambodia, Myanmar, Salvador, Thailand and China

“The youth unlimited potential may change the world!” This year, CYCU Service-Learning Center guided 5 overseas volunteer groups. This summer vacation, the 5 groups would head for five countries including Cambodia, Myanmar, Salvador, Thailand and Mainland China to engage in various characteristics Service-Learning plans including IT, English education and cultural exchange. In the morning on 27th day, CYCU President, Samuel Chang kuang-Cheng, presented the flag to the groups personally and encouraged the students to practice the spirit about “holistic education” upheld by CYCU, hoping that the world may be changed through Service-Learning!

Since 2008, CYCU Service-Learning Center has engaged in promoting the international student volunteers, and these students have gone to more than ten countries including Malawi, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, North India, Cambodia and Myanmar. So far, more than 300 volunteers have contributed what they learned on foreign land. Director Li Chun-Yao of CYCU Learning Service Center mentioned that “As international volunteers, students may own different experience in life and global views and may also help the disadvantaged groups which need help in the world.”

Upholding the spirit for sharing resources with diplomatic allies, CYCU Salvador international Volunteer Group headed for ISNA in Salvador for the first-time last year to participate in the “ISNA” service plan led by the Second Lady of Salvador, Elda Gladis Tobar Ortiz. This year, in order to continue spreading the love, Director Li Chun-Yao of CYCU Learning Service Center led the Group on August 3 to start working with the NGO, “Care to Help Foundation”, founded by CYCU alumni, Mr. Weng Yen-Tien, and “R.O.C. Embassy in the Republic of Salvador” to form the international volunteer group “Sa Er Ban – Communication of Love in Salvador” for the second time to provide the IT education service for the disadvantaged girl juveniles who were abused.

The Myanmar overseas volunteer group, which once won the Outstanding Volunteer Award by college/university group by Department of Youth Affairs, Taoyuan, formed the international volunteer group “Tiptoe Love in Myanmar” again this year. A total of six students engaged in the service activities for 27 days from June 29 to July 25, and designed the “English Camp” for the first time. The group also worked with the Chinese school students from Lashio Hei Meng Long High School and Lashio Guo Min High School, guided the Chinese school students to design active and interesting English activities, cared for the orphanage established by an ethnic minority – the Li-su Tribe – and also hoped that the service activities could develop continuously locally through the program.

The “Love CAM, See Hope in CAM-11 Classes in Cambodia” has spared no efforts for 11 years, which is also the senior service group among the five groups and once won the excellence award for international care in the national youth volunteer group competition organized by Youth Development Administration, Ministry of Education. The group continued to focus on “upgrading of competitiveness for employment” and share English teaching methods and materials with the village youth community society in Cambodia to help the local rural area youth create job opportunities.

The international volunteer group consisting of students from Department/graduate school of Information Management, “Roaming Thailand”, has visited Khon Kaen City in the north east side of Thailand for four times and organized the “IT Seeds Training Camp” to share the knowledge about APP and communication information technology with the teachers and students of CAS and other schools. The “Know Taiwan Summer Camp – China Dongguan Volunteer Group” worked with National Taiwan University of Sport to lead Taiwanese businessmen’s children in Dongguan, China to know about the “Taiwan’s local cultures” based on active and diversified topics and thereby strengthen coherence and sense of identity of Taiwanese businessmen’s children toward Taiwan’s cultures.

CYCU proves the borderless public welfare with its love and physical action and also fulfills the mission for practicing the “holistic education”. CYCU Service-Learning Center welcomes all interesting partners to join CYCU overseas volunteer groups to form Taiwan’s public welfare identity and raise Taiwan’s international visibility.