📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
In Taiwan, senior citizens accounted for 12.4 of the countryU s population at the end of 2015 and expected to reach 20 by 2025. Hondao Senior CitizenU s Welfare Foundation (Hondao) was founded in 1995 and aims to let seniors in Taiwan live happy, safe, and dignified lives in their own homes and communities. The foundation committed to promoting filial piety and encouraging everyone to take care of oneU s own aged parents and then to extend the same care to the aged people in general. Its programs center around three core values: Filial Piety, Community Care, and Dream Never Gets Old.Guting Village located in Zhuangwei Township of Yilan County is a small and beautiful rural village with plenty checkerboard of paddy fields. In order to awake more and more home and aboard young peopleU s concern and action about Taiwan aged care issue, and let them know more about TaiwanU s local culture. Hondao and Guting Community Development Association (GCDA) organize the 2nd Guting International WorkCamp in 2017. The work scopes and purpose include (1) to do elderly caring through variety activities and service, (2) to do community service to beautify its public environment and build the traditional Grain storage kiosk (3) do cultural exchange for bringing international cultural into this rural area and learning about local cultural in Taiwan. Through these cross-generation activities, we wish to fill young peopleU s vitality and creativity into this aged farm village. At the same time the elder and youth can learn from each other.
💼 What the programme involves
1.Elderly caringpound (1) To raise public awareness on issues of importance to senior citizens, and willing to pay more attention to them. Volunteers will wear the Aging Simulation and then finishing the appointedtasks to experience the feeling of sensory perceptions that elders may have, to know more about eldersU body and learn empathy.(2) To provide the elders care service by designing the lessons to elders, accompanying with them, joining the community activities.(3) WeU ll interact with elders in the community or go to their home. We also provide services such as house repairing, deliver the meals to elders who live alone or disadvantaged.2.Community servicepound (1)Volunteers will show their creativity to beautify and paint the tire that will be decorated the roadside.(2) Experience the farm work and help community do their daily work.(3) we will use wood ,bamboo and straw to reform a traditional Grain storage kiosk to an arbor.3.Cultural exchangepound (1) To hold or participate some activities and exchange different cultures from different countries. (2)We will participate local folk dance and learn Taiwanese songs .(3) We will learn some traditional crafts like make sticky rice cake, dried gourd , pickles, and do handicraft(straw DIY).(4) Experience the temple culture and enjoy with the elder on FatherU s Day.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Sleep at the community activity center. Sleeping bag is needed. Meals will be cooked by the volunteersparticipation free :Free (Hondao will provide meals and accommodations). Volunteers should cover the transportation and living expenses by themselves during free schedule.
📍 About the location
location:No.48-16, Guting Rd., Zhuangwei Township, Yilan County 263, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Taoyuan International Airport. 2.5 hours of bus away from Guting (about NTDUS dollar 300, passengers need to transfer in Taipei to get to Guting. )leisure:Excursion, local-tourism, night market, water sport, exchange parties, traditional craft, etc.
⚠️ Requirements
We are keen to have the volunteer who has passion for the elderly, like work with group and keep open mind to Taiwan local culture.
ℹ️ Additional information
We are keen to have the volunteer who has passion for the elderly, like work with group and keep open mind to Taiwan local culture.