Eden Social Welfare Foundation-News

2017-07-27

The 2017 Multi-Cultural Camp for Second-Generation New Immigrant

Volunteers from the second-generation new immigrations, interns from Taiwan Tech Trek (TTT) program, along with volunteers from Panamas and Vietnam, will be leading the groups in the three-day event. The main point of the camp is for interns and international volunteers to present their own culture to the students with a series of multi-cultural classes and activities

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2017-06-27

Disability culture and universal human rights-2

Another core aspect of disability rights movement is “Nothing about us, without us.” This phrase decries situations such as describe. But to remedy such situations we need to determine who constitutes “us.” Disability should be seen as differences between people, instead of defects. We need to critically reexamine how society deals with disabilities as human diversity, and then adapt the system so that it serves everyone while recognizing the differences between disabled and non-disabled persons.

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2017-06-22

Disability culture and universal human rights-1

The public generally considers disability a medical issue, social welfare issue, or “special” education issue. Disability scholars, however, have redefined disability as a human diversity and human rights issue.

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2017-06-22

Eden cooperates with Mercedes-Benz Taiwan, making Taiwan a more beautiful place

Eden Social Welfare Foundation teamed up with Mercedes-Benz Taiwan for charity project “star dreams” to provide better education and nutritious meals for students in Taiwan’s underprivileged area.

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2017-06-08

The Power of Art

Walking inside the art gallery of the “Asia-Pacific Accessible Art Exhibition”, one would be stunned by the beautiful, inspiring and creative artworks. The thing that might stun visitors more is the fact that all these breath-taking artworks are created by artists with different disabilities around all Asia-Pacific regions.

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2017-06-05

Rights of Refugees with Disabilities

21st century is continuously hit by a series of wave related to human rights issues. A number of cross-country or civil wars; ethnic, religious, economic, or political conflicts unveil one after another crisis. According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR, there are more than 65.3 million forcibly displaced people, and 21.3 million refugees until 2015, and the figure is still increasing rapidly due to the unease regional conflicts across the world such as the Syrian war.

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2017-06-03

A call for Elderly awareness for better care system and respect

“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. …” Miss Yang, caroled Psalm 23 on a sigh that sank deep. In front of her, was the checkerboard she and the other social worker used to play checkers earlier.

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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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