[活動]"媽祖的孩子為非洲孤兒募款"-圖書館

[nps798 10]

呂主任將要在今年試辦"媽祖的孩子為非洲孤兒募款"

藉由壯遊,行腳中台灣,激起大家對宗教的反省與思考~

是不是我們少燒一疊金紙,用三炷香代替一大把,我們就能讓非洲的孤兒們有一頓飯可以吃呢？

現在主任已經徵得新校長吳文宗先生同意,以及獲得大甲鎮瀾宮董事長顏清標先生的資金贊助.

預計在全運會期間,舉辦5天的台灣壯遊募款活動

試問,各位彰中學長學姊學弟學妹們,對這整件事的看法！！

此內容已被編輯, August 14, 2011 ,由 nps798

[w加菲貓w 10]

昨天有跑回去大概聽了主任的意思

本來聽到消息很震怒(?! 但是聽完其中想法後發現還不錯

固然有人會反對取消國青會 但是連續五屆國青會確實需要一點改變

也能夠減輕主任一年之間需要半那麼多活動的辛勞

畢竟如果壯遊真的辦的起來也真的是非常厲害

(更棒的是 學弟妹只需要有熱誠參加就好 其他的畢業的學長應該會幫忙傳吼厚吧

[presidentim 10]

蝦米!!確定了嗎?

我本來想趁機帶新同學了解一下彰中的

要不要把壯遊變校外活動阿?

吸收一些外面的人幫忙

然後省下來的人繼續國青?

[Zu 10]

蝦米!!確定了嗎?

我本來想趁機帶新同學了解一下彰中的

要不要把壯遊變校外活動阿?

吸收一些外面的人幫忙

然後省下來的人繼續國青?

已確定咯@_@

這次會是截然不同的形式

詳情可能要等開學圖書館公布才會知道

[GillBert 10]

我想應該是各有利弊吧

不過感覺資訊好像不是很公開

有沒有誰可以"完整的"說明一下啊

就我而言，目前聽到的都是些片面的消息

[Morrison 10]

那原本的國青會會改制成怎樣@@??

[Aristo 10]

1. 國青會沒有停辦 請一直說國青會"停辦"的同學 不要再誤會了 也不要再這樣講了 如果國青會停辦 就沒有邀請國外學生的必要

2.這個活動不叫做"台灣壯遊" 不知道是從哪邊生出這個活動定做台灣壯遊的... 這個活動是兩個活動合辦 請不要再講錯了 也不要再這樣說

3. 活動在"策劃階段" 沒有所謂晚會"一定"停辦 會以怎樣的形式呈現 沒有人知道 話不要說死 也請不要把自己的想法 當做最後決議 一直不斷的傳述下去 造成不必要的誤會

4. 不同的意見 可以提出來的討論 但是如果真的有很多疑慮 請"直接"找主任 問到非常非常清楚 不斷的猜忌 傳話 自我解讀 沒有辦法解決問題 （從這幾天看下來 訊息錯誤百出 造成非常多的誤會）

5. 國際化與本土化一直實圖書館的理念 圖書館的國際化 希望培養年輕人的競爭力 不是只停留在談談國外偶像 名牌 時尚 因為要談名牌 偶像 時尚 西方世界絕對贏過我們 這很現實 但是事實就是如此 這很難成為自己的競爭力

要掌握主導權 掌握麥克風 就是要特別 這也是國際化很重要的一環 大部分的人 還沒有意識到這點 仍停留在好的英文能力等於國際化 想像一下 當你遇到一群會說中文的外國人 你會想聽一個中文流利 跟你介紹九把刀 還是一個中文稍微不好一點 跟你介紹艾倫波

所以 你沒有了解自己的文化 你就沒有籌碼 有在好的語言能力都沒有用 最終你還是無法掌握麥克風 （以後上大學 有機會去聽聽研討會就可以知道）

就是這樣的理念 才想要把國青會結合台研社 一起合辦活動 你有本土化 卻沒有國際視野 再好的理想 都沒有用 你有國際化 卻只知道西方文化 不了解自己 那也是空泛

轉述自某位學長

[presidentim 10]

要打破流言還是把真相說清楚最快歐

建議把目前的狀況開ㄧ版說明一下

不要再等智者出現了!!

把現在的情況完整詳細的PO上來吧!

[w加菲貓w 10]

1. 國青會沒有停辦 請一直說國青會"停辦"的同學 不要再誤會了 也不要再這樣講了 如果國青會停辦 就沒有邀請國外學生的必要

......恕省

轉述自某位學長

這位學長是國青社創屆社長兼國青會3th總召XD

要打破流言還是把真相說清楚最快歐

建議把目前的狀況開ㄧ版說明一下

不要再等智者出現了!!

把現在的情況完整詳細的PO上來吧!

之前聽到學長及主任協調溝通的內容後

發現因為活動計畫有了但裡面規畫好似還不是非常明確

貿然爆卦這樣的消息也不準確阿

而且目前主任要給我們的想法大概也跟上面學弟轉po學長的文章差不多

最後 現在除了主任最清楚目前的情況外誰都無法掌握第一手資料啦(H)

此內容已被編輯, August 20, 2011 ,由 w加菲貓w

[Aristo 10]

‧Taiwan News Sun, Oct 23, 2011 - Page 2　

Changhua students to walk 100km for charity

HELPING OTHERS:The route of the walk will follow that of the annual Matsu parade in an effort to raise awareness of the charity among Matsu followers

By Shih Hsiu-chuan / Staff Reporter

All students below high-school level in Changhua County are to get a whole week off

this week as the county hosts the National Games.

While for many, the break might be considered an extra holiday to enjoy recreational activities, a group of 55 Changhua Senior High-School students and 20 college students who graduated from the school, however, will use the time to take part in a 100km walk to raise funds for African children who have no access to clean water.

The group will be joined by 25 international students from 10 -senior-high schools from six countries, including Atlanta Girls’ High School and King’s Ridge Christian High School in the US; Walnut Grove Secondary School in Canada; Meijo Gakuin High School, Okinawa Shogaku High School and Ishinomaki Kobunkan High School in Japan; and Entangeni Dlalisile High School in Swaziland, as well as students studying in Taiwan from Kenya and other African countries.

Changhua Senior High School library director Lewis Lu (呂興忠), who organized the fundraising event, said on the telephone yesterday the idea came from “what we can really offer them [African children] in return after they have helped [our kids] grow up and change their lives.”

The five-day walk, which begins tomorrow, is expected to raise between NT$2 million (US$66,000) and NT$8 million in a year, Lu said. “About NT$20,000 can sponsor a Heart for Africa, [a Canada Revenue Agency-registered charity] well in Africa, providing 3,000 people with water.”

Lu first assisted students interested in volunteering to work in Swaziland during the summer of 2008, taking with them donations from Taiwan for orphans and children with AIDS

“Over the four years, we took them [African kids] computers, instant noodles, blankets ... but we knew that such things did not help them improve their lives in a sustainable way. Volunteer work changed the way our children live their lives. It was the [African kids] that helped us, not the other way around,” Lu said.

Aristo Chen (陳偉銘), in his second year at the school, said the event sends a message to people in Taiwan that “we are capable of helping people in need.”

“I hope that the five-day 100km walk means that children in Africa do not have to walk 13km every day to fetch water,” Chen said.

Participants will walk along the same route as that taken by Taiwan’s preeminent folk deity, Matsu, each year, during an important religious event held annually at the end of the third lunar month that always attract millions of worshippers.

Lu said that the choice of route aimed to raise awareness of the charity among Matsu followers.

During the Matsu parade tour, people spend about NT$16 billion setting off firecrackers and tens of billions on burning incense, Lu said.

“With the fundraising event, we encourage people to reflect on Matsu’s love and kindness and emulate her by extending a helping hand to others rather than just thinking about ourselves,” he said.

Taiwan News Sat, Oct 29, 2011 - Page 2　

Students complete walk for charity

AFRICAN FUND:Seventy high-school students from six countries participated in the 100km walk to raise money to drill wells and improve water access in Africa

Staff Writer, with CNA

High-school students hold up a banner for the 2011 Heart for Africa sponsored walk after arriving at their final destination, Fongtian Temple in Chiayi County’s Singang Township, yesterday.

Photo: CNA

Students from Taiwan and five other countries completed a 100km walk yesterday to raise funds for needy children in Africa, as part of a global conference hosted by Changhua Senior High School.

The group of 70 high-school students from the US, Canada, Japan, Kenya, Swaziland and Taiwan arrived at Singang’s Fongtian Temple in Chiayi County after a five-day walk that began in Changhua City.

The students are participants in the sixth International High School Youth Leadership Conference hosted by the high school.

“Walk for water,” they chanted during the walk, which was organized to raise money to drill wells in Africa.

Some children in impoverished areas of Africa have to walk several kilometers every day to get to school or find drinking water so they can have their only proper meal of the day — cornmeal porridge, said organizer Lewis Lu (呂興忠), director of the school library.

The walk was launched to help the students “act instead of read” and experience the difficulty others encounter obtaining drinking water, Lu said.

The participants walked 20km each day and attended academic forums at night.

A Canadian student, identified only as Lauren, said the experience was “an eye opener” for her. The 16-year-old said she would never forget the kindness and hospitality of Taiwanese.

The Vancouver resident said that despite the high temperature, she was not tired from the walk.

Many of the participants from Canada are familiar with volunteer and charity work, including volunteering in Africa or involvement in children’s and human rights movements.

A group of students from the tsunami-hit Miyagi Prefecture in northeast Japan was also among the 25 international participants.

One of the Japanese participants, Daito Sato, decided to join the charity cause although his parents, who were injured in the March 11 earthquake, are still in hospital.

At a news conference held after the walk, Janine Maxwell, founder of the non-profit US organization Heart for Africa, thanked Taiwanese for their generosity.

“Clean drinking water is very important for poor African children because water is necessary for raising kids and farming, which can help the next generation survive,” she said.

Taiwan News

Tue, Nov 08, 2011 - Page 2　

INTERVIEW

Aid worker, librarian join forces for Africa

‘LIFE WORK’:A chance meeting in Swaziland in 2008 brought Janine Maxwell and Lewis Lu together through their commitment to helping those in need in Africa

By Shih Hsiu-chuan / Staff Reporter

Heart for Africa vice president Janine Maxwell, third from right, Changhua County Commissioner Cho Po-yuan, middle, and Swazi Ambassador to Taiwan Njabuliso Gwebu, third from left, lead a group of local and international senior-high school students in a 100km walk to raise funds for clean water in Africa on Oct. 24 in front of Nanyao Temple in Changhua City.

Photo courtesy of Heart for Africa

A truck driver donates money to students taking part in the “100km Walk for Water” fundraising campaign in this photo taken on Oct. 27 when the students were walking along the Provincial No. 1 Highway near Siluo Township, Yunlin County.

Photo courtesy of Heart for Africa

In the eyes of Janine Maxwell, a renowned charity worker dedicated to helping children in Africa, Taiwan is a “unique” country.

“Taiwanese people are so unique. You are such a unique country. I travel all over the world and I have never met people like Taiwanese people,” Maxwell said in an interview with the Taipei Times on Oct. 29.

People in Taiwan have very tender hearts, she said, adding that “when I speak to students and parents, they are very truly concerned about what’s happening in other parts of the world. They don’t know about it, but they want to immediately know: ‘What can I do to help?’”

Maxwell was in Taiwan for the “100km Walk for Water,” a fund-raising event for clean water in Africa, which was organized by Changhua Senior High School librarian Lewis Lu (呂興忠) and his students and included students from six counties, taking place in four central Taiwan counties from Oct. 24 to Oct. 28.

During her stay, she also delivered speeches to senior-high students.

“I have never seen anything like this before. The students walking with the [donation] boxes and people pulling up on their mopeds, they said ‘Stop, stop, stop,’ telling us to stop so that they can put money in. That’s incredible,” she said.

Maxwell, who had previously visited Taiwan after she met Lu in 2008 when he was with a group of his students volunteering in Swaziland, said she “hasn’t met anyone in Taiwan who tried to discourage her.”

“But in America, yes. In Canada, yes, and in Swaziland, yes,” she said.

People who poured cold water on her efforts often gave her reasons like “the government should do it or someone else should help;” “if you only help a few children, it’s not enough;” and “everywhere in Africa is corrupt, so you are just helping corruption,” she said.

She said she managed not to get frustrated by the sometimes “very negative” and “mean” comments and to keep doing what is right because of her beliefs and her faith in God.

The biggest challenge in volunteering in a country like Swaziland is “seeing how big the problem is” and feeling that “[we] can’t do enough to fix the situation,” she said.

“There were times that I saw volunteers take off their shoes and clothes for the kids before they were leaving the country. We all wanted to do more,” she said.

Born in 1963, Maxwell worked in the business world for 16 years, leading ONYX Marketing Group, then one of the most successful marketing companies in Canada, which she founded at the age of 24, and which boasted a blue-chip client list in North America.

The day she happened to be in New York and experienced the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks sent her into deep reflection about her purpose in life and her search brought her to Zambia and Kenya in 2003.

The trip changed her whole life.

“I met so many young children, three years old, four years old, five years old ... They live on the streets. They were raped every night, they were sex slaves, they were eating from garbage cans, they were being beaten by the police and they were being treated like garbage,” she said. “I couldn’t go back to my nice world, in my nice big house, my car and all the things I have, knowing that those children whom I had gotten to know were still there. I just felt that, as a Christian, God has given me many things.”

After the trip, Maxwell decided to shut ONYX down and established the non-profit organization Heart for Africa, focusing on bringing hope to the people of Africa in the areas of hunger, orphans, poverty and education.

Heart for Africa has been working alongside churches in Swaziland to deliver quality shelter, food, water, clothing, healthcare and education to orphans and vulnerable children in the country with the world’s highest known rate of HIV/AIDS.

Maxwell said she has the feeling that “I can do something for someone other than me.”

That feeling was also the motivating factor for Lu and his students to volunteer in Swaziland since 2008 and is behind 100km Walk for Water.

As a teacher, Lu believes the purpose of education is not just helping students pass entrance exams, but helping them learn “the core values with which they live their lives.”

Starting in 2006, Lu held annual international conferences that invited international students to share their volunteering stories with local students.

Two years later, he went beyond that, persuading entrepreneurs to provide funds for students to volunteer in Swaziland during summer vacations, forming the country’s first overseas volunteer corps composed of senior-high students.

“Reading is useless unless it is for action, because reading is not an end, but a means to achieve the end, which is to change the world by turning knowledge learned in books into actions to help people,” he said.

That quote by Lu was cited by Maxwell to encourage people to do something to make a difference in her book Is It Okay with You? that contained a chapter about Lu and his team.

After their chance encounter in Swaziland, Maxwell and Lu cooperated to turn their common beliefs into actions.

Last year, the US-based Heart for Africa established a sister organization in Taiwan.

The latest cooperation, 100km Walk for Water, aimed to collect donations of between NT$2 million (US$66,000) and NT$8 million a year for Heart for Africa to build wells for Swazis without access to clean water and to provide water for irrigation of cornfields and fish farming to improve nutrition for people in the country.

During the five-day march that launched the yearlong fundraising campaign, the students collected about NT$350,000, Lu said.

“When the kids counted how much they collected at the end of the day, they were so happy they walked under the scorching sun all day and got about NT$20,000 or NT$30,000. No one would do this if the money were for his or her own personal use,” Lu added.

More importantly was that the students have learned that “to help needy people, they can humble themselves before others,” he said.

Another important lesson for the students was that they should not look down on working-class people after seeing people like truck drivers, laborers and peddlers donate without hesitation the money they have in hand, probably what they earned that day, “which surprised the students a lot,” Lu said.

Kevin Hsieh (謝凱年), who is in his first year of senior-high school, said he was really touched when an elderly woman at a fruit stand in Changhua County not only made donations to them, but also offered them lots of fruit.

“There were times we were rejected, but there were also moments that made me feel so emotional,” he said.

Because Heart for Africa is in full swing with a land development project on a 1,012 hectare plot of land in Swaziland — a multi-faceted initiative named “Project Canaan” — the Maxwell family is set to permanently move to the southern African kingdom in May next year.

Project Canaan will give hope to vulnerable children in Swaziland by providing nutritious food, security, shelter, education and medical care and improve the lives of the rural poor by providing employment through sustainable agriculture, Maxwell said.

Asked when the project would be complete, Maxwell said: “Never, probably. It is a big, big project. We will also try to design a model so that it can be used in other countries.”

“It’s our life work,” she said.

此內容已被編輯, November 11, 2011 ,由 Aristo

[Aristo 10]

以下皆是上一樓所發的原網址處

因為小弟技術不佳 無法將圖片一起PO上來

所以改採超連結的方式

如有不便 請多多包含

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/10/23/2003516476

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/10/29/2003516970

以下三個為同一篇新聞

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/10/23/2003516476

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/10/29/2003516970

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/11/08/2003517785/3

就如同呂主任所說的

改變會讓人感到不適應 懷疑 恐懼

但他帶來的卻是無窮的價值

此內容已被編輯, November 11, 2011 ,由 Aristo