FLYING CLASSROOM, THE WONDERFUL COMMUNITY LIFE

Get to know Taiwan from Tainan Tainan (literally Taiwan South ), officially Tainan City, is a special municipality located in southern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait in the west and south. Tainan is the oldest city in Taiwan and also commonly known as the Capital City . TainanU s complex history of comebacks, redefinitions and renewals inspired its popular nickname the Phoenix City .However, the economic structure in Tainan are facing challenges, population drain resulting from unemployment deepens the rural-urban divide. Besides, a large number of local residents are married to mail-order wife due to the poor social status, and the amount keeps increasing in recent years. Because of the scarcity and unequal distributions of resource, children have limited access to education, especially English learning environment. Confronted with the conflicting situations, the community people still lack of understating toward their own culture and social values.The TFCF North Tainan Branch, established in 1971, aims to help the needy children and families with financial assistance and prevent the children from being abused. In addition, these children have less opportunity to understand Tainan. Thus, we work with the VYA on 2017summer vacation, through the work-camp held in North Tainan, we wish to promote global understanding, trigger the learning interests of children and enhance their capacity of English through in-depth interactions between local residents and cross-national youths. Empowering the young generation to think globally, act locally, we introduce North Tainan to the world with a brand new perspective. In 2016 summer, this is the first year for TFCF North Tainan Branch to host international Work Camp. We want to recruit cross-national volunteers for two purposes: First of all, providing community services for disadvantaged families, and the other is planning the summer activities for local children who with various disadvantages. We hope through coordination of international volunteers and TFCF volunteers, these children will have wonderful memory of childhood and being included by the world. (http://www.itainan.org/)Project Aims: 1.To create opportunities for these disadvantageU s child to connect the world.2.To encourage inter-cultural life experiences exchanges and help these children to appreciate and respect cultural differences.3.To inspire TFCF youth volunteers and disadvantageU s child to devote themselves to benefiting society and increase their experiences in international awareness and participation.