CYCU Raincoat Raising to Show Love for Cambodia

CYCU teachers and students engaged in the Service-Learning in Cambodia in summer vacation this year. They found that it was so rainy locally and most of the rural area children went to school exposing in the rain. The students of Department of Information Management founded the “Sunshine Taskforce”, initiated the raincoat raising project and set up the website “Love for Cambodia and Sun After Rain” based on their profession, in hopes of extending the charity and kindness collected from the public to the rural area children in Cambodia. (Photographed by Lu Hsiao-Chan)

December 21, 2017, 04:09, China Times

Lu Hsiao-Chan/News of Taoyuan

CYCU teachers and students engaged in the Service-Learning in Cambodia in summer vacation this year. They found that it was so rainy locally and most of the rural area children went to school exposing in the rain. The students of Department of Information Management founded the “Sunshine Taskforce”, initiated the raincoat raising project and set up the website “Love for Cambodia and Sun After Rain” based on their profession, in hopes of extending the charity and kindness collected from the public to the rural area children in Cambodia.

The sophomore student of Department of Information Management, Lin Li-Chun, revealed that most of the roads in Cambodia were muddy and it always rained locally; therefore, some parents in the rural areas told their children not to go to school because they feared that children would get sick after exposing in the rain. They initiated the project in hopes of making each of the children in Cambodian have a raincoat and go to school happily every day to seize the chance for education and change.

It seems easy to raise raincoats. However, as the taskforce needed durable and undamaged raincoats, we had difficulty in raising the raincoat in the school at the very beginning. The taskforce members started to collect the raincoat nearby their residence and worked hard to explain the project to the community residents. The student, 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 learn about life in Cambodia and cherish what they own currently.

The instructor, Professor Wu Chao-Ming, mentioned that the students were trained by the courses to execute the public welfare project under an enterprise’s business model and engage in cases physically, help the disadvantaged group improve problems, learn how to serve others with profession, and become the intellectuals giving consideration to character and profession equally.

(China Times)

Source: http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20171221000818-260107