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LIFE IN TYPICAL HAKKA COMMUNITY

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About the project

LIFE IN TYPICAL HAKKA COMMUNITY

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Qingdong Community is a traditional countryside. Right here, most residents are elderly and child because most youths have gone out. Therefore, we would like to invite cheerful and lively young people to bring the new vision through holding activities to here. We hope you arrive here experience not only the countryside of Taiwan but also full of love. We would like to make our community seems younger and dynamic by painting stones around community from international volunteer. In conclusion, we hope to see elderly and child in community could communicate with international people.Aims:1)Activating community, unity residents, make youths come back2)Utilizing empty building effectively3)Introduce Qingdong Community to Taiwan4)Introduce Qingdong Community to foreigners and make them bring the cultural of this community back to their countries

💼 What the programme involves

Community painting: painting stones around community, weeding and watering the parkFarmer assistance: assistance farmer to collect fruits and promote community agricultureExperiences exchanging: sharing homeland cultural with Taiwanese studentsSharing cultural: bring your traditional costume or folk products

🏠 Accommodation on site

Accommodations will be in the Community Activity Center, Dormitory of school teacher, Temples. You could have lunch with school and have dinner in the community office. Otherwise, you could cook and research the food with new immigrants.participation free:1) 150 USD. 2)VYA will cover the participation fee of those volunteers who came from full member organizations of Alliance and SCI.

📍 About the location

location:Qingdong Community Development Association, Dongshi District, Taichung City (Dongguan Road, Qingdong Village, Dongshi District)you could take flight to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport or Taichung Airport then transfer to hereby busleisure:you could visit Ladder Trail, which connects two communities, and enjoy the view of Dongshi. If you visit here during March to April, you could go to U(Soft PondU to watch firefly.

⚠️ Requirements

cheerful, activity, Police Clearance Certificate. Better with advertisement skillParticipation Fee: 1) 150 USD. 2)VYA will cover the participation fee of those volunteers who came from full member organizations of Alliance and SCI.

ℹ️ Additional information

cheerful, activity, Police Clearance Certificate. Better with advertisement skill

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📅 Available sessions

VYA-MINI-1719-QD

14/07/2017 → 17/07/2017

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 8
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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–99 years old

Solidarity donation

150.00 USD ≈ 134 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Taichung City, Taiwan

Taiwan

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Taiwan New Dollar (TWD / NT$)

Exchange rate

1 TWD = 0.027269 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Taiwan Standard Time

Local time: 20:57 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Chinese