The Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission yesterday joined hands with King Car Education Foundation to seek the participation of overseas American-born Chinese in teaching English to children in remote areas of Taiwan.
Foundation General Director Morgan Sun (
Sun said the summer camp aims to improve the English educational resources in remote areas by taking advantage of the expertise of American-born Chinese youths, many of whom have come back to Taiwan to participate in the commission's annual cultural and language study tours.
The summer camp is an extension of the foundation's recent "English Schweitzer" project, which included 19 American university students who volunteered to teach English in remote areas of Nantou and Chiayi counties.
"We hope these overseas Chinese youths can bring their feedback to Taiwanese society while embarking on a journey to learn more about Taiwanese culture," Sun said yesterday.
The summer camps will be offered around the nation, but their exact locations have yet to be finalized, Sun said.
"Presumably these summer camps will be given in Nantou, Chiayi, Changhua, Hualien, Kinmen or Matsu," he said.
Commission Vice Minister Liao Sheng-hsiung (廖勝雄) said the project is aimed at promoting the volunteer efforts of overseas Chinese.
"Every year more than 3,000 overseas Chinese youths from around the world come back to Taiwan to attend the Chinese-language and Taiwan culture study tours. This is an alternative for them to offer feedback to Taiwanese society and engage in cultural exchanges," Liao said.
Liao said the applicants for the teaching camps will have to pay their round-trip airfare, but accommodations and living expenses will be sponsored by the commission and foundation.
The camps will run from June 15 to Aug. 18.
The first two weeks will focus on an orientation of Taiwanese culture and tips for teaching English. The following six weeks will consist of teaching English in the camps, and the final week offers a nation-wide tour.
Participants will be awarded a certificate of volunteer service by the foundation and commission.
The King Car Foundation has more information on the summer camps on its Web site, www.kingcar.com.tw.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
UNAWARE: Many people sit for long hours every day and eat unhealthy foods, putting them at greater risk of developing one of the ‘three highs,’ an expert said More than 30 percent of adults aged 40 or older who underwent a government-funded health exam were unaware they had at least one of the “three highs” — high blood pressure, high blood lipids or high blood sugar, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday. Among adults aged 40 or older who said they did not have any of the “three highs” before taking the health exam, more than 30 percent were found to have at least one of them, Adult Preventive Health Examination Service data from 2022 showed. People with long-term medical conditions such as hypertension or diabetes usually do not
POLICE INVESTIGATING: A man said he quit his job as a nurse at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital as he had been ‘disgusted’ by the behavior of his colleagues A man yesterday morning wrote online that he had witnessed nurses taking photographs and touching anesthetized patients inappropriately in Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital’s operating theaters. The man surnamed Huang (黃) wrote on the Professional Technology Temple bulletin board that during his six-month stint as a nurse at the hospital, he had seen nurses taking pictures of patients, including of their private parts, after they were anesthetized. Some nurses had also touched patients inappropriately and children were among those photographed, he said. Huang said this “disgusted” him “so much” that “he felt the need to reveal these unethical acts in the operating theater
Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching