CYCU Overseas Service-Learning Won One Golden Award and Two Bronze Awards from Ministry of Education

CYCU has been dedicated to promoting the university’s social responsibility permanently and encouraging teachers and students to provide services to the society and world physically. It also continued to execute the public welfare projects in such rural areas to Fuxin District of Taoyuan, Hengshan Township of Hsinchu and Zhuolan Township of Miaoli, and even engaged in overseas volunteer services in Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Salvador and other countries in the Central and South America. CYCU’s overseas service also achieved remarkable results by winning one golden award and two bronze awards at the “Youth Overseas Peace Volunteer Group Sharing & Presentation Ceremony” held by Ministry of Education!

According to CYCU’s Vice President for Student Affairs, Jao Hsin, CYCU has started to promote the professional Service-Learning and encouraged students to participate in overseas service to develop their global view since 2008. In 2017, CYCU’s Cambodia overseas volunteer group which won the golden prize for the youth overseas peace volunteer group inherited the senior’s service experience for 8 years, trained the village youth teachers via the “Village Seed English Teacher Workshop”.

Meanwhile, both of CYCU’s Myanmar overseas volunteer group and Salvador overseas volunteer group also won the bronze award at the Ceremony in 2017. The senior student of Department of Psychology who acted as the Salvador group leader, Lai Yu-Ken, mentioned that it has been the third time for them to teach the local juvenile about IT courses. Rural area children possess poor resources but all of them kept thankful for everything, and we, as the children living in Taiwan being well provided, should be more introspective.