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In order to provide safer and more convenient services for spinal cord injury survivors, the Chang Yung-Fa Charity Foundation donated a brand new rehabilitation bus to the Potential Development Center for Spinal Cord Sufferers on the 6th of this month. The donation was presented by Chairman Wu Jingming on behalf of the Chang Yung-Fa Charity Foundation to Chairman Lin Jinxing of the Potential Development Center for Spinal Cord Sufferers, with the presence of Deputy Director Chen Ruwen of the Taoyuan City Government's Social Affairs Bureau.

Individuals with intellectual disabilities often face challenges in social adaptation, and without continuous care and support after the age of 18, they may encounter various issues in their daily lives and work. Little happiness link Social Welfare Foundation provides case management and vocational training for 24 families with intellectually disabled individuals in the Keelung and Greater Taipei areas. In recent years, the foundation has planned to relocate its operations to the newly built home in Ruibin, New Taipei City, providing a more spacious environment for work and life. While the relevant infrastructure and software are continuously being developed, they have recently encountered challenges in adapting to the new environment. On October 24, the foundation organized the "Health Promotion and Home Surroundings Adaptation Journey" to address these issues.

The Taiwan PULI Care Association, a registered organization, primarily serves the Tainan and Kaohsiung areas, providing services such as operating food banks, promoting food education, offering after-school tutoring in rural areas, providing emergency relief, and caring for elderly individuals living alone.

With approximately 100,000 individuals with intellectual disabilities in Taiwan, the lack of caregiving institutions means that less than 5% have the opportunity to receive services. According to statistics from the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the percentage of disabled individuals residing in institutions is around 6% in the northern region and only 3% in the southern region, highlighting the urban-rural resource disparity. The foundation has been a long-time supporter of the RuoZhuEr Education Foundation in Chiayi County, specifically its affiliated Intelligence Development Center. A recent visit to provide care revealed the joyful smiles of these "big angels," illustrating that the center's services indeed bring dignity and a quality life to its beneficiaries.

To enhance the operational efficiency of social welfare organizations and improve the quality of services for children and adolescents, our organization facilitated a visit by the sponsored frontline children's welfare unit, Holy Word Foundation Children’s Home, to The Catholic Diocese of Chiayi attached An Ren Home for an in-depth business exchange and sharing session on September 5th. Both units are child placement institutions with different business directions and strategies, but they share a common belief: providing children with a better future.

Genesis Social Welfare Foundation (Keelung Branch) mainly houses people in a vegetative state. To help them raise funds, the Foundation and Evergreen Laurel Hotel (Keelung) hosted the fund-raising event, “From bunny ceramics with endless love”. One hundred pieces of bunny ceramics released by Generis would be available for purchase on the Evergreen Laurel Hotel (Keelung)’s sales channels. Today (Dec 23) before Christmas Eve, all proceeds (NT$130,000) would go to Genesis. The Foundation delivered the proceeds in person while checking on those living in Genesis Keelung Branch and its operation status.

It’s quite difficult for those with intellectual developmental disabilities (IDDs) to adapt to society and would require a place in an institution. But many families with such IDD kids cannot afford day care in an institution. Taoyuan Heart Light Social Welfare Foundation (shortened to Light Heart) houses 86 people with IDDs from low-income families providing them daytime care and 24-hour accommodation services, a service that could prevent many social problems. But with Taiwan heading into an aged era, the cost to care for elders with IDDs has risen and worsen Light Heart’s operation pressure.

The Keelung Branch of Genesis Social Welfare Foundation (shortened to Genesis) provides a comfortable care environment for those in a vegetative state attended to by 24-hour caregivers on shifts to turn over and pat on the back regularly to promote sputum excretion and maintain hygiene and care quality. As a gesture to help Genesis raise funds, the Foundation worked with Evergreen Laurel Hotel (Keelung) to host the fund-raising event, “From bunny ceramics with endless love”. One hundred pieces of bunny ceramics released by Generis would be available for purchase on the Evergreen Laurel Hotel (Keelung)’s sales channels and all proceeds would go to Genesis.

People with rare diseases and their families are faced with long-term economic stress and in need of everyone’s support. Rett Syndrome, a genetic neurological disorder that occurs mostly in females at an incidence rate of about 1 in 12,000, is the rare disease of all rare diseases, affecting about 130 people in Taiwan. The symptoms include overall body degeneration, behavioral decline, repetitive hand movement e.g., hand washing, wringing, gripping, and sticking out tongue, panting, sleep disturbance, walking instability, loss of speech, incontinence and so on. There is no cure at the moment. It can only be controlled by drugs, and rehabilitation and physiotherapy can be applied to delay degeneration and lifelong special care is required.

Those with intellectual developmental disabilities (IDDs) have insufficient abilities to adapt to society. If they don’t carry on living in an institution after they turn 18, they will be faced with all kinds of issues like jobs and where to live. Little Happiness Social Welfare Foundation (LHSWF) serves 24 people with IDDs and their families from Keelung and Greater Taipei areas and provides them with case management and job training

Wu Jiang-Ming, a special needs teacher at Dou-Nan Senior High School, got together a group of students with physical and mental disabilities from his class and formed the band, Angels with Broken Wings in 2007. At the moment the consists 16 band members, most of whom have autism or intellectual development disabilities and are from disadvantaged families. The goal is to cultivate their musical capabilities and obtain a street artist license so that they can gain confidence and have a skill to live on.

Yunlin County Little Angel Development Association (YCLADA), is a group comprised of families with mentally or physically disabled kids, currently provides support services to over 100 such families The Little Heart-Heart Atelier (the Atelier) is a bakery set up by the YCLADA to provide a work and care environment for mentally or physically disabled youngsters aged 15 or above who are not housed in other social welfare institutions. The goal is to cultivate their abilities to take care of themselves through group learning in preparation for future assisted employment while preventing them from staying at home and suffering from degeneration to reduce the care burden on the family.