Eden Social Welfare Foundation-News

2017-04-18

Fighting Discrimination with Empowerment- Supporting Children with Disabilities in Myanmar

Myanmar is a beautiful country rich in history, culture and natural recourses, but living with a disability there can be a challenge due to the lack of understanding. When Ms. Thein wanted to send her daughter to a special needs centre to receive therapy, instead of receiving support from the community, she encountered a wave of incredulity: Why would she do that, why not just let the child be?

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2016-10-24

Major League baseball player donates $450 thousand to help Eden’s delayed development children

Major League baseball player Chen Wei-Yin (陳偉殷) announced to donate NT$450 thousand to Eden Social Welfare Foundation, Dream Baseball Camp from the National Chung Hsing University and Life Conservationist Association to give back to the Taiwanese society.

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2015-11-30

Eden hosted drug hypersensitivity seminar to raise awareness for Asia’s high incidence rate

Eden Social Welfare Foundation hosted an international seminar on drug hypersensitivity, safety for patients’ medical treatment and recovery from drug-triggered diseases with international and national experts on Nov. 29.

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2015-01-26

Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi visit Eden Social Welfare Foundation.

2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi visited Taiwan during January 14th to 18th. On the morning of January 15th, Mr. Satyarthi visited Eden to share and exchange experiences in social welfare field. Our volunteer representative Pearl, who serviced at Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) in India,

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2015-01-21

Eden's Staff Representative Attends 2013 InterAction Forum in Washington D.C.

On 29th April to 1st May, 2013, Ms. Chia Yin Pan, staff representative of Eden Social Welfare Foundation at the annual InterAction Forum, headed for Washington D.C. to attend a three-day event presided over by the American Voluntary International Action. With nearly 1,000 attendees representing hundreds of organizations from all over the world, this year’s InterAction Forum features a wide variety of workshops and tracks on issues critical to the development of common solutions to the challenges faced by the world’s marginalized and impoverished communities.

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2015-01-21

120 Wheelchairs Donated to Victims of Lushan (China) Earthquake by Eden

A 7 magnitude earthquake broke out at 8:02 am on April 20, 2013, in Sichuan Province, China. According to local news agencies, 196 people were killed, 11,470 injured, and 21 reported missing in addition to the displacement of 237,655 individuals.

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2015-01-21

An Exchange of Accessible Housing Ideas with Eden and Hong Kong PHAB Association

In 25th March, 2013, Hong Kong PHAB (physically handicapped and able-bodied) Association calls on Eden Social Welfare Foundation for a tour of Eden’s accessible housing project in New Taipei City. Staff representatives of the hosting and visiting organization have both benefitted a lot from the face to face exchange of firsthand experience in accessible housing.

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2015-01-20

Walk-A-Thon 2012 with Taipei Adventist American School

The 7th annual walk-a-thon for Taipei Adventist American School (TAAS) was held on November 18, 2012. Students have met this year at Taipei City Fulin Elementary School in a joint effort to raise money for disabled and economically disadvantaged persons of Eden Social Welfare Foundation’s Love without Borders Wheelchair Donation Project in Vietnam and Nepal, where the proceeds will go, which will donate 300 wheelchairs to people with disabilities in the two developing countries.

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