Hui-Ming Visually Impaired Orphanage

Hui-Ming Visually Impaired Orphanage

Taichung

Need 25

Have you ever seen the color of the sky, the outline of a raindrop or the familiar face of a family member?

“Seeing” to us, is such a simple and natural thing, but for the children at HMVIO, it is a challenge they face every day.

Hui-Ming Visually Impaired Orphanage provides not only free housing for those who are between ages 6 to 22 from all over Taiwan with visual impairment and multiple disabilities including visual impairment but also a complete national compulsory education and daily activities training to equip them with life skills needed to be self sufficient. In addition to room and board, education and health care, HMVIO has enlisted professionals to help these children to be able to care for themselves to a certain degree, in order to lessen the burden on their families.

As a part of their life skills training, the children embark on a weekly community outing that includes a meal at a local restaurant. This enables them to familiarize themselves with the community and practice life skills. HMVIO would like to invite you to be part of this experience, to walk out with the children and be their eyes and create memories to last a lifetime through companionship, conversation, food and drinks.

City: Taichung
Date：2019.10.16 (Wed)
Time ：1:30PM – 4:00PM
Service Details: Assist with community outing, including conversations, meal time care and riding mass transit.

*Special Requirement:
As volunteers are required to have a Police Clearance Certificate, we ask that you fill out your particulars in the form so that we can apply it as a group.*

Kaohsiung City Down Syndrome Association

Kaohsiung

Need 10

In Taiwan, as observed in 2010, there were 7.79 babies born with Down syndrome per 100 000 live births. Down syndrome children are generally lively and easy to get along with, but also stubborn and simple minded.

Kaohsiung City Down Syndrome Association provides a place for families with Down syndrome babies and families with children with other disabilities to come together for support. Through continuous education and public service, the association hopes to help these individuals live full and rewarding lives. Also, not only does the association provide classes for Down Syndrome children, but also classes for family, care-takers and volunteers in various topics and forms, such as reading clubs and movies, for continual growth and ways to enhance public awareness for Down Syndrome.

616 Youth Dreamworks

Facility Improvement

Need 12

This is where all dreams begin……

616 Youth Dreamworks is the place for all rejected youths and minorities. It helps them to re-build their confidence by offering a place for academic education, career development and employment counseling. Through skill development and employment training, 616 has helped them to acquire the ability to work and help them to find their own life purpose to get away from criminal temptation

In order to protect these rehabilitated youths, we will not interact with them directly. However, we will offer our love and caring through helping to remodel the facility for them to pursue their own dreams and happiness. We welcome anyone of you with passion and creativity, and we believe that our effort would pave a better path for these youths in needs

City：Taipei
Date：2019.10.15 (Tue)
Time：2PM – 5PM

Serving Activity: To assist the 616 Youth Dreamworks for office remodeling including room painting

Special Requirements : Insurance required. (FeesThe Hope will cover insurance fee.)

Harmony Home Association

Need 14

The Harmony Home Association Taiwan (HHAT) has been providing shelters and cares for pregnant migrant laborers and their children for more than 10 years. The founder of the association has dedicated and stood up for them, he has begun this mission from helping the children with AIDS to caring more than 170 migrant child laborers today. The HHAT has become a shelter for these loving children.

We will provide in-person caring and babysitting to these homeless migrant child labors with genuine love and caring in this event.

City: Taipei
Serving Date : 2019.10.19 (Sat)
Serving Time: 9AM – 12PM

Serving Activity: Babysitting and caring for the children

Attention: People with flu or any other transmissible disease are not recommended to participate, in order to protect the well-being of children with weaker immune system.

Eden Social Welfare Foundation

Need 16

Are you willing to be the source of light and light up the lamp in those dimmed hearts? Come to care for those who are disabled and the elderly that are disengaged from the outside world for one afternoon.

By this outing event, we hope they may find sincerity and happiness throughout their interaction with us. Thus, lowering the feeling of loneliness and emptiness inside their heart and possibly, becomes the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Or perhaps it may gradually becomes a long-term commitment to helping the elderly to reconnect with others.

Be excited to experience an amazing friendship banquet from this ministry. And by enriching others in spirit, your vision could be expanded and widened !

We are looking for 20 volunteers who have the heart to serve for these ‘big’ children of God. By accompanying them in pairs, we will be having conversations, song-singing and gaming sessions together and enjoying this wonderful October afternoon in the love of God.

City: Taipei
Date: 2019.10.16 (Wed)
Time: 2PM – 5PM

Serving Activity: Accompanying the disabled and the elderly to nearby scenery spots- Hobe Fort or Tamsui Fisherman’s Wharf, and doing songs & activities together with the volunteers.

Bethany Children’s Home

Facility Improvement

Need 10

What is home to you? Father, mother, with a few more siblings ? Or like The Hope, where people with different backgrounds come together and love each other.

Bethany Children’s Home is a place filled with numerous extraordinary “small families”. For more than half a century, it accommodates, raises and cares for children and adolescents between the ages of 2 and 18. Each small family consists of about 4 to 6 people. The child social worker would take on a parental role and provide warmth and shelter to the poor and the forsaken children.

Salt Ministry

Soup Kitchen

Need 12

A simple hello, a warm smile and a hot meal could really brighten the day for someone who has been on the streets. The act itself may seem so small and insignificant, but the impact is quite significant! Every week, Salt Ministry works to provide a hot meal for homeless people around the Taipei Main station area at Taipei Grace Home Church. For these friends who have no homes to return to, it is not only a meal, but an experience of God’s love and comfort.

Have you ever felt lonely and helpless, but found comfort in God’s love? If so, come join us at Salt Ministry to share this love with the homeless of Taipei.

We would like to enlist the help of ten volunteers to prepare and deliver a delicious meal to the homeless. You don’t need the knife skills or experience of a master chef, all you need is to roll up your sleeves and come with a heart to serve.

We also welcome those who would like to volunteer on a regular basis with Salt Ministry. The experience of long term volunteering will be more rewarding than one can imagine!

City：Taipei
Date：2019.10.16 (Wed)
Time：9AM – 12:30PM

Serving Activity：Meal preparation, meal service and companionship to the homeless.

Hondao Senior Citizens’ Welfare Foundation

Need 15

Do you remember the excited childhood memories of visiting your grandparents? How much their wonderful stories had amazed you and how much fun you had with them? Here is the perfect opportunity for you to serve if you think you are good at interacting with these loving elders, by talking to them, and having fun with them like your old time childhood memory!

The Taipei SongShan Senior Day Care Center, established by HonDao Senior Citizens’ Welfare Foundation is the 2nd home for these loving elders, despite their difference in degree of disability. The center has provided various activities for both physical and educational purpose. It provides these elders day cares as well as companionship in order to help them learn self-care and enjoying life as a group! You can become the spark of their smiles by doing morning exercises or math puzzle with them, and it will only take a morning of your time.

We are looking for 12 volunteers, to accompany these loving elders, to lead them in morning exercises, to engage them with simple math puzzle or even handcrafting! Let us love our neighbors like what Jesus has done, and honor the elders of our society.

City：Taipei
Date：2019.10.14(Mon)
Time：9AM – 11:30AM

Serving Activity：To accompany the elders for morning exercise, math quiz or handcrafting, and to host group activities as well.

Step 30

Resource Distribution

Need 15

In this huge warehouse, every pair of shoes that passes through your hands carry the hopes and blessings of its previous owner and arrives at the other end of the world to provide children in poverty, a new journey without the fear of disease through every step they take.

We welcome you to join us in this Toy-Story-like afternoon gathering and endeavor, to experience another facet of serving. These shoes will protect its future little owners from potentially life threatening diseases causes by jiggers.

Though most will have only known of poverty and disease, amongst these pure and innocent children may be a leader of their nations in the making!

You will come to realized that the blessing extended to them through the work of your hands will also grown in your heart!

At this time, we would like to recruit 15 volunteers to come join us at the Bethlehem Warehouse to help organize donated goods. We suggest wearing comfortable clothing that you can easily move around in, close-toed shoes, mask, and also bring a towel and a water bottle. If you have anything you would like to donate, feel free to bring along day of.

The biggest reward in volunteering at Step 30 is the smiles on the children’s faces when they receive their first pair of shoes.

City: Taipei
Date: 2019.10.19 (Sat)
Time: 1PM – 4PM

Serving Activity: Organize donated items (shoes, bags, clothing).

Special Requirements: Insurance Required (The Hope will cover insurance fee)

The Mustard Seed Mission

Resource Distribution

Need 10

And he says to them, Because of your little faith: for truly I say to you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, Be moved from this place to that; and it will be moved; and nothing will be impossible to you. - Matthew 17:20

Maybe you don't have a shining resume or had an extraordinary grade at school. Maybe you often feel that you are powerless. But you may have forgotten one thing: even big trees also have to experience a humble seeding period. Now is the opportunity to see the world with a brand new perspective. Let us place our confidence and hope in something small as a mustard seed!

The Mustard Seed Mission has been having a positive influence on disadvantaged children and the elderly for many years. In addition to setting up small-scale resettlement institutions for kids, children and elderly community services, also participating in the overseas adoption process for children in need. One of the new project plans is to help disadvantaged families to find effective ways to be self-sustainable by making handicrafts without relying on donations.

The Mustard Seed Mission will require a total of 10 volunteers to disassemble, iron, and organizing ties before the disadvantage families can make the handicraft. No more excuses that you have no opportunity to help. Maybe this time God will let you see things that have never been seen before through this small step of action.

Date: 2019.10.18 (Fri)
Time: 2PM – 5:30 PM

Serving content: Dismantling, Ironing, Organizing ties