CYCU Work Hard for Diplomacy and Met First Lady of Salvador
CYCU’s Salvador overseas volunteer group, “Communication of Love in Salvador”, headed for Central America to engage in overseas services this summer vacation. The First Lady and Second Lady of Salvador, Margarita Villatade Sánchez and Elda Gladis Tobar Ortiz, met the group personally and also showed their recognition and praise to Taiwanese youth’s participation in international services. CYCU teachers and students, once again, won the honor for national diplomacy between Taiwan and Salvador through the Service-Learning successfully!
CYCU Salvador volunteer group engaged in providing services in Salvador from August 3 to September 4 this year, and also has continued the overseas service for the second year. Director Li Chun-Yao of the Service- Learning Center led the volunteer group consisting of five students to provide the IT education in “ISNA” subordinated to the Office of President of Salvador. The service recipients were primarily young girls who lost parent and young single mothers. The group leader, Lin Yung-Chih, a senior student of Department of Civil Engineering, said that “it was the most touching and amazing time for me to engage in services in Salvador during my university life; the juvenile living in the shelter at the same age as we suffered from domestic violence, abuse and unmarried pregnancy, and I hoped to re-burn their dream for life by the exchange for one month!” “In addition to the IT education, we also hoped to communicate Taiwan’s characteristics and passion to them; therefore, we also prepared the DIY courses integrating Taiwan’s characteristics to exchange and share with Salvador!” he said. Hsien Ju-Fen of the Department of Applied Linguistics and Language Studies, who participated in the overseas service for the first time this year, also mentioned that the Taiwanese characteristic sky lantern activity enabled the university students and juvenile of Taiwan and Salvador to learn from each other, see different international characteristics, and also enhance the chance for following cooperation between both countries.
The local service recipients’ staff also stated to CYCU teachers and students that what the change the young dropout girls and single mothers who participated in the courses made in the past year made them moved most! By experiencing different countries’ cultures, these children started to have their life dream and wished that they could experience different life in different countries like the friends from Taiwan. In addition to exchanging with the government officers of Salvador, with the assistance from the Ambassador of the R.O.C. to Salvador, CYCU teachers and students also engaged in the cultural exchange with the highest education institution, Universidad de El Salvador (UES), and Don Bosco Catholic University, World Vision Salvador and the local youth organizations in Salvador. The principal of Don Bosco Catholic University, Dr. José Humberto Flores Muñoz, also hoped to become a partner school of CYCU in the future to strengthen the cultural exchange and exchange of students between the both countries. According to Li Chun-Yao, “CYCU teachers and students have developed the professional Service-Learning in the territories of Taoyuan for about two decades. Overseas Service-Learning made students develop their global view, prove the borderless public welfare with their physical action, and upgrade Taiwan’s international visibility through service and public welfare!” The Republic of El Salvador has established the diplomatic relationship with Taiwan since 1933. In 1957, Taiwan set up the Embassy and assigned the public minister in Salvador. In 1961, the Embassy was upgraded as Ambassador. Both governments have entered into about 20 cooperative agreements including free trade agreement and agreement for dispatching of volunteers, et al.
CYCU volunteer group is providing IT education in “ISNA”. Provided by CYCU
