What time is it? It’s summer time. It’s English time. Learning English can be fun and should be fun with Eden.

Eden Task Force brings love and care to the remote area in Maybagah Tribe, Miaoli, close to Central Taiwan. Responding to sustainable development, the English camp is integrated into the SDGs concepts in simple ways. The intention of this curriculum is to enable the students realize that these SDGs concepts are actually linked with our daily lives and can be put into action based on our efforts. As the proverb says, “Everything from scratch”, each class is built up through group discussions and interaction.

During the camp, our international volunteers, Vinh from Vietnam and Fatima from Guatemala, taught the children about the pollution and environmental protection with a variety of vocabularies and fascinating games. The children were super excited and surprisingly willing to follow. Hence, the children all repeated after them when practicing pronunciation. In the afternoon, the children brainstormed with the international volunteers to make a poster on how to protect the earth. Creative growth should be encouraged like this to inspire students to think in an innovative way.

Photo: Children is learning English at the SDGs English Summer camp.

What’s more, one of the international volunteers, Dora, designed a series of games for the children to experience the inconvenience of the persons with disabilities, including being blindfolded and listening to the commands from the teammates, using different body parts with your partner to deliver the ball to reach the destination and guessing the vocabularies that taught from the class with various sounds.

Photo: The international volunteer, Andrew, is playing game with the children.

These were the very first time for the children in the Presbyterian Church. Moreover, this was also the first time for them to be close to the foreigners and learn English in such fun and active ways. The feedbacks from the children were positive. One of the children in the tribe is shy and introverted. However, he gradually became close to Peter, one of the international volunteers from the United States after knowing him. All the hard work from the international volunteers was easily seen through the students’ smiley faces and their laughter.

Photo: The children are doing the vocabulary worksheets together.

Eden Task Force didn’t just stop right here. Looking forward to something about the international volunteers? What do they do? How do they feel? What does Taiwan look like in their hearts? Stay tuned for this afternoon.

Photo: The worksheet made from the international volunteers.