Taiwan Halloween

Name: Taiwan Halloween
Start: 2026-07-16
End: 2026-07-26
Location: Taiwan

Code: 7715fd2cdf1f0c9655a36b087d93ef77 Copied

Taiwan Culture Older people Festival Children Culture Older people +2 Fixed dates

About the project

Taiwan Halloween

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Vision YouthAction(VYA) is a non-profit organization that promotes Service-Learning, community based volunteerism and international youth and cultural exchange in Taiwan and around the world.

Vision YouthAction was founded in 2002 by 30 young leaders who participated in an international volunteer exchange project between Taiwan and U.S.A. From 2002 to 2007, VYA has been successful in setting up a regional youth volunteer center to promote community service projects that lasted from a day to a week. Over 7,000 youths served as volunteers, donating more than 260,000 hours to social services from 2006- 2008. In August 2007, in collaboration with NICE Japan, the first international workcamp in Taiwan was held in a small fishing village in the mid-western coast of
Taiwan. Since then, VYA has been developing rapidly and diversely, catering to the large need of projects & motivations of people!

Our Missions and Future Prospects
※ To promote youth engagement in public affairs and international voluntary services: We encourage and help youths participate in various kinds of voluntary services. Through voluntary services, cultural exchange, global understanding and friendship amongst world youth and local people have grown naturally through living, working, talking, and laughing together.

※ To nurture future young social entrepreneurs: We assist youth in running NPOs with the concept of social enterprise and venture capital, solving social problems efficiently based on a new business model.

💼 What the programme involves

Taichung Port, located in the Wuqi District of Taichung, is the second-largest international commercial port in Taiwan and the 97th largest in the world. MITSUI OUTLET PARK is the first seaport-themed shopping mall in the Taichung port district of Taiwan. Our community, Dazhuang Community, is situated in the Taichung port district and is the largest community in Wuqi District with a strong agricultural culture. The blend of urban and traditional cultures makes Dazhuang Community a unique cultural feature in the area. It also has the highest population of both elderly and young people, with one out of every nine residents being an elder. As a result, Dazhuang Community has been dedicated to taking care of the elderly and will organize more plans and activities for teenagers in 2019. With more volunteers joining the community, we hope to offer better care and education to the elderly and young people and infuse much vigor into the community.

Goals:
1. Learn about the culture of Chinese Temple in Taiwan.

2. Volunteers can participate in health promotion activities with elders and share their exotic cultures with children to broaden horizons and give local people unique country experiences.

3. We hope that the younger generation in the community will be able to introduce our unique features to international volunteers, making them more interested in participating in our community activities during and after the camp.

Work:
1. Elders company: The community holds health activities five times a week. Volunteers will participate, design interesting games, and prepare performances so that elders can experience different country cultures, have fun, and learn new things from different perspectives.

2. Assist in preparing for local Halloween and Ghost Festival ceremony: Prepare for the annual Zhongyuan Festival (Ghost Festival) activities of Chinese Dao temples with community people and share ghost-related festive culture in your countries with everyone.

3. Organize cultural activities for children: Organizing various cultural sharing activities, including sharing national cultures, your hometown, games, music, dance, or food, to help local children learn about cultural diversity and broaden their horizons.

🏠 Accommodation on site

All participants will stay in the community in dormitory. Boys and girls will live separately. Wash machine and dry machine provided (TBC).

🍲 Food

Breakfast: participants can choose in local shops. And the host will cover the meal expenses.

Lunch: will have lunch with elders on every Monday, Wednesday to Sunday. Participants need to prepare by group rotation and local host will provide ingredients.

Dinner: Participants need to prepare by group rotation.

📍 About the location

Dazhuang Community of Taichung City, Taiwan

⚠️ Requirements

1.Please note that the schedule is subject to change due to potential inclement weather or geographical limitations. It s essential to remain flexible to deal with unexpected modifications.

2.Please be aware that volunteers are responsible for their own expenses at free time such as transportation, meals, and anything else.

3.We highly recommend volunteers to bring their own creative ideas for activities, such as traditional/local outfits, games, performances, snacks, arts and cultural items, and other special items to share with local people.

4.It would be great to have local ingredients/sauces that stands for your countries to share with.

5.We kindly request that you bring at least one traditional outfit, music MP3 files, games, or anything else that can showcase your local culture to the local people.

🤝 Meeting point

Transportation fee: Volunteers have to pay for the transportation fee to and from workcamp sites by themselves.

In all the workcamps in Taiwan, volunteers will meet at a bus station or train station in the afternoon of the first camp day. Also, all workcamps end in the morning of the last day.

ℹ️ Additional information

Basic insurance will be provided during project period, but we strongly recommend that you purchase overseas travel insurance covering the entire trip.

1-2 months before the projects begin, volunteers will receive “Information Sheets” (details of the project: what to bring, the meeting place, how to get there, etc.) together with the “Acceptance Letter” and “VYA Volunteers’ Guide” through the partner/sending organizations.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.