Lockdown by Threats- Link Up in Love ; Wenzao Healthcare Communication USR
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“Wenzao International Volunteers Create Barrier-Free Medical Treatment" USR Social Practice Plan
Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought an unprecedented crisis to the whole world. In anxiety, we reflect on the relationship between people and the environment. Our university's motto “Revere the Divine, Love the Human” inspires us in the idea that “Divinity Comes in Care for the Living” and that “Humanity Shines in Earnest with Selfless Giving.” Therefore, the real concept of the motto is to care about the general public people and cherish our environment. This is our conviction, which has become the drive for WHC-USR to adhere to “Learn to Serve, Serve to Learn” as the core value of the project.
In 2020, due to the lockdown for COVID-19 prevention, social distancing is required among people, widening the gap of fears for infection. However, Wenzao WHC-USR team has built a bridge with love from the children of Cishan Elementary School and students of Wenzao University to be extended to children in Cambodia. The fervent support from Kaohsiung have been delivered to Cambodia, melting the cold barriers of fears and warming up the Cambodian young souls.
The students of hygiene instruction section in the course of Learning and Leadership to conduct a camp with creativity and vitality on topics such as pandemic prevention, Dengue Fever, recycling, and activities such as making simple facial masks, and packaging mask covers, especially offering related English instructions to the children in Cambodia (See Picture 1).
The reusable facial mask covers and the greeting cards made by Wenzao volunteers and Cishan Elementary School children in May were safely delivered in August to Cambodia after a long winding trip. The Cambodian faculty and students happily received not only new materials for pandemic prevention but were also filled with love from Taiwan, which would prevail incessantly in Cambodia, Master Sokrath, the venerable founder of KKS expressed. (See Pictures 4 and 5)
The adversary of the pandemic caused almost all the English classes in KKS, a Green Umbrella primary school, to be suspended. Local children could only stay at home without any opportunities for learning. Wenzao international volunteers boldly pursued a new service of online teaching as key figures and prepared a series of distant learning lessons, with jobs ranging from analyzing the local needs, designing and tailoring appropriate English materials, to teaming up kids and volunteers. The participating KKS kids, aged from 9 to 11 and from families in extreme poverty, had only learned the alphabet as their prerequisite knowledge. Each was given a 25-dollar-worth cell phone provided by the school to learn from home, the first time ever in his or her life to learn English online.
Our team faculty witnessed how Wenzao international volunteers interacted in all possible ways with the children through gestures, voice, facial expressions, or even in simple online games. These Cambodian children soon got rid of their shyness, became deeply engaged in class, and finally ended up expressing clearly in complete sentences and in confidence. Despite being physically far from the students, volunteers truly felt from the smiles on the children’s faces that the distance was shortened and one step was made closer in their relationship. The children’s achievements in learning might be rather limited within a short period of time, but the thrill in learning would bring about a development of infinity. We deeply believe that education is a journey where one life inspires another through love. Be it the children who were taught or those who taught, the zeal for life has been mutually ignited in their souls by the arduous they shared, a heating touch of education. (See Picture 2 and 3.)
At the beginning of 2020, our team learned from medical partners that migrant workers and new immigrants had not been able to understand the related epidemic news from CDC. Therefore, WHC-USR offered pandemic news updates in five languages on LINE app, featuring pandemic prevention and hygiene education for migrant workers and new immigrants. Those Wenzao faculty and students who are proficient in English, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Thai took shifts and worked on pandemic news translation to provide news instantly. Linked by KMSH medical care and hygiene team, WHC-USR interacted with migrant workers at processing zones in Kaohsiung and Tainan, rendering pandemic prevention campaigns and wielding professional language services to reduce any possible oversight in Taiwan’s pandemic prevention, (See Pictures 6-8).
WHC-USR has already proceeded into its third year of services. In the previous two years, students were trained to work as volunteers at three hospitals in Kaohsiung to assist new immigrants and migrant workers in reducing the language and cultural barriers in patient-medical personnel communication (as in Picture 9). Also, the team traveled to Cambodia and Vietnam with hospital partners to help with hygiene and environmental protection education and explored new international service sites (as in Picture 10). Under the threats of COVID-19, before August, WHC-USR, readjusted its target service to new residents and migrant workers in Taiwan, offered hygiene education for rural schools, and conducted online English courses for Cambodian children. Starting in October, our volunteers will resume work at KVGH, E-da Hospital, and KMSH. WHC-USC employs its vantage points in language and internationalization to initiate care for the less privileged in language communication. By mobilizing resources within the university and collaborating with three neighboring hospitals, our project adheres to international volunteering professional services with “accessibility of medical healthcare” and “learning without borders” in our vision.
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