“Prospering Xinlong, Benefiting Wenshan”: A Field for Spirits to Connect with Each Other
“Prospering Xinlong, Benefiting Wenshan”, a project on mutual benefit between NCCU and Ankang Community for University Social Responsibility（USR）, is the biggest and the only USR project for Special Deep Ploughing of University at NCCU. Having been about to be in its fourth year, not only has it deeply ploughed into the field, but it also keeps appealing to students in NCCU to join the team. In this project, residents in the community or students performing the project address serious social issues and challenges together. With the river of time flowing, the emotions and spirits have been connected as the sparkles on the river, making the result of the project more brilliant.
Eugene (Chi-Chun Liao), a big boy with a warm smile and sunny disposition, is the student in charge of “Shelter Workshop.” Shelter Workshop aims to rebuild mentally retarded people’s confidence by keeping them company and arranging activities for them, helping them gain visibility to society and be able to open their minds to the world. At first, Eugene, a newbie to the issue of accompanying and caring for mentally retarded people, showed no differences from ordinary people: avoiding them due to unfamiliarity. However, after a long time of interaction, his feelings for them changed from unfamiliar to familiar, and even identified with the special and lovely group of people in the end. “We are not different. We do the same things and feel the same atmosphere in the space, laughing and going crazy together.” People in the workshop call each other trainee because every distinct individual equally contains a noble spirit; No one superior or inferior, nor is someone stronger or weaker. In the field, Eugene opens up to trainees in the workshop with a pure honest, sharing every moment of life with them.
Bo-Xiang Huang, who takes charge of the Legal Aid Program, looks shy and retiring, and also has profound feelings for the field. The law camp, which is at the heart of the program, aims to help children expand their horizons, acquire basic knowledge in law and learn to fight for their own rights. During the course of the camp, Bo-Xiang feels differences from children in the community. They live in insecure environments, and seem to receive limited warmth from their families. Compared to other children, they are overage for their expressions and sensitive to others’ feelings. Therefore, for the ideas of the camp program, after a thorough discussion between Bo-Xiang and the instructor, they both agreed that we might as well focus on spiritual nurturing of each other rather than on simply transmitting knowledge throughout the camp. What the children need is a company, security and warmth; as the executive of the camp, Bo-Xiang feels richer inside when hearing that children can’t wait to attend the camp next day. Transmission of knowledge is valuable for sure, but children’s smiles of satisfaction could not only give a feeling of achievement in teaching but allows our spirits to indulge with sweetness for long.
As a Vietnamese Chinese and having taught Chinese for more than ten years, SuE Huang has a radiant smile. In the Care for New Immigrants Program, she participates in Chinese course planning, student enrollment, teaching and life care for new immigrants and transnational students. In the beginning, SuE was unhappy with such a heavy burden; now, she feels rich and fulfilled. She told us “Even the teachers and students in NCCU are able to contribute significantly to new immigrants selflessly; as a member of new immigrants, why can’t I?” Having participated in the project for more than two years, besides teaching Chinese, she can get even closer to new immigrants, feeling the same as what they feel. To those new immigrants who feel helpless in the face of their status and go with the flow, she restrains herself from the criticism she used to have. Instead, she is able to understand and even accept their helplessness with more sympathy, care and tolerance. In this case, an invisible bridge was built between people of different identities, where a spiritual conversation started.
The USR project Benefiting Wenshan at NCCU, closely connected to Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) proposed by the UN, aims to apply theories in the field. The project has been focusing on changing Ankang Community, helping the residents get rid of poverty. Besides, we collect experiences in the course of performing the project with expectations to improve the policies implemented in Ankang Community by the influence of the university in the long term. Such expectations and ambitions are great but require the finest effort and the most genuine offer from each one involved to make it. They, shining as numerous stars in the sky, look straight at Dasein(being) and remind us again and again to review the nature of USR projects. USR projects focus on nurturing highly educated talent and on the issue of human sustainability; however, should USR projects be human oriented instead of getting lost in a mirage out of superficial signs?
The USR project Benefiting Wenshan makes it to strike a balance under the strain between the practical difficulties and the nature of USR projects thanks to the three characters above. Their metaphysical thinking is closely stuck to the theme of why humans are humans throughout. Countless participants devote themselves to the field of our USR project conceiving the same idea. Chun-Yu Hsiao (A-Q), the founder of Twilight Box and elected the Core Character of the USR projects this year, is the star with the greatest splendor. With these giants of actions, the idea of “mutual benefit between a university and a community” has been developed beyond its literal meaning and has become a field for spirits to connect and become one.
Emotional Changes：From Unfamiliarity to Familiarity, and then from Familiarity to Identification
Eugene (Chi-Chun Liao), a big boy with a warm smile and sunny disposition, is the student in charge of “Shelter Workshop.” Shelter Workshop aims to rebuild mentally retarded people’s confidence by keeping them company and arranging activities for them, helping them gain visibility to society and be able to open their minds to the world. At first, Eugene, a newbie to the issue of accompanying and caring for mentally retarded people, showed no differences from ordinary people: avoiding them due to unfamiliarity. However, after a long time of interaction, his feelings for them changed from unfamiliar to familiar, and even identified with the special and lovely group of people in the end. “We are not different. We do the same things and feel the same atmosphere in the space, laughing and going crazy together.” People in the workshop call each other trainee because every distinct individual equally contains a noble spirit; No one superior or inferior, nor is someone stronger or weaker. In the field, Eugene opens up to trainees in the workshop with a pure honest, sharing every moment of life with them.
Spiritual Abundance＞Transmission of Knowledge
Bo-Xiang Huang, who takes charge of the Legal Aid Program, looks shy and retiring, and also has profound feelings for the field. The law camp, which is at the heart of the program, aims to help children expand their horizons, acquire basic knowledge in law and learn to fight for their own rights. During the course of the camp, Bo-Xiang feels differences from children in the community. They live in insecure environments, and seem to receive limited warmth from their families. Compared to other children, they are overage for their expressions and sensitive to others’ feelings. Therefore, for the ideas of the camp program, after a thorough discussion between Bo-Xiang and the instructor, they both agreed that we might as well focus on spiritual nurturing of each other rather than on simply transmitting knowledge throughout the camp. What the children need is a company, security and warmth; as the executive of the camp, Bo-Xiang feels richer inside when hearing that children can’t wait to attend the camp next day. Transmission of knowledge is valuable for sure, but children’s smiles of satisfaction could not only give a feeling of achievement in teaching but allows our spirits to indulge with sweetness for long.
Feeling the Same Feeling：A Start of Spiritual Conversations
As a Vietnamese Chinese and having taught Chinese for more than ten years, SuE Huang has a radiant smile. In the Care for New Immigrants Program, she participates in Chinese course planning, student enrollment, teaching and life care for new immigrants and transnational students. In the beginning, SuE was unhappy with such a heavy burden; now, she feels rich and fulfilled. She told us “Even the teachers and students in NCCU are able to contribute significantly to new immigrants selflessly; as a member of new immigrants, why can’t I?” Having participated in the project for more than two years, besides teaching Chinese, she can get even closer to new immigrants, feeling the same as what they feel. To those new immigrants who feel helpless in the face of their status and go with the flow, she restrains herself from the criticism she used to have. Instead, she is able to understand and even accept their helplessness with more sympathy, care and tolerance. In this case, an invisible bridge was built between people of different identities, where a spiritual conversation started.
USR Project “Benefiting Wenshan”: Visible Expansion vs. Invisible Concentration
The USR project Benefiting Wenshan at NCCU, closely connected to Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) proposed by the UN, aims to apply theories in the field. The project has been focusing on changing Ankang Community, helping the residents get rid of poverty. Besides, we collect experiences in the course of performing the project with expectations to improve the policies implemented in Ankang Community by the influence of the university in the long term. Such expectations and ambitions are great but require the finest effort and the most genuine offer from each one involved to make it. They, shining as numerous stars in the sky, look straight at Dasein(being) and remind us again and again to review the nature of USR projects. USR projects focus on nurturing highly educated talent and on the issue of human sustainability; however, should USR projects be human oriented instead of getting lost in a mirage out of superficial signs?
The USR project Benefiting Wenshan makes it to strike a balance under the strain between the practical difficulties and the nature of USR projects thanks to the three characters above. Their metaphysical thinking is closely stuck to the theme of why humans are humans throughout. Countless participants devote themselves to the field of our USR project conceiving the same idea. Chun-Yu Hsiao (A-Q), the founder of Twilight Box and elected the Core Character of the USR projects this year, is the star with the greatest splendor. With these giants of actions, the idea of “mutual benefit between a university and a community” has been developed beyond its literal meaning and has become a field for spirits to connect and become one.
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University characteristic Expansion Stage Project
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Taipei City
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National Chengchi University
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