Running One Lap, Donate a Dollar, the Entire Student Body & Faculty of the Elementary School Managed to Raise $30,000N.T.’s

So, this, is a collective effort, huh???  Kindness is still found here, from the Newspapers, translated…

In order to help the kids get into the habits of exercising regularly, the Chungchen Elementary School started the thought of combining charitable work with working out, after the Rotary Club learned about it, they’d replied to the efforts, “If the students run one lap around the school fields, then, we will donate a dollar to a charity”, the over 1,700 students and teachers from the school used their break time between the classes, and managed to run over 30,000 laps, and yesterday, they’d given the money they’d made, to The Genesis Social Welfare Foundation and The Children-Are-Us Foundation.

As the bell after the ten o’clock class were rung, all the students from all six grade in the elementary school all ran towards the field, and, everybody stood on the starting marker, getting ready, to “run for love”, because for every lap they ran, the local rotary club will donate one dollar on the students’ behalf.

“We are also running, for health’s sake.”, the Principal, Hsu stated, now there are a ton of stresses on the students, they are all, accompanied by their studies, cram and talent sessions, or getting too involved in the computers, cell phones, along with other high-tech things, in order to encourage the students to get into the habits of exercising, to train their stamina, that, was what sparked him, into coming up with this event, to help the kids get motivated about exercises.

“Let’s force the teachers to run with us, because teacher is way too fat, and, he needed to lose weight, so he can become healthier.”, the sixth grader, Yang said, that he’d played table tennis with his friends and classmates, so, he didn’t feel at all tired when he ran.

The fifth grader, Chang said, that this semester, he’d run sixteen laps total, “Sometimes, we would ask one another how many laps had been run, but, we are not competing against one another, and there’s no pressures.”

The manager of student affairs, Lo stated, in order to make the calculations of the laps easier, for every lap the students ran, they’d received one card, and, started last September, the 1708 students and teacher had run over 30,000 laps altogether; everybody is getting involved, and, this activity will be continued next semester as well.

And so, this school made charitable contributions into a collective effort, and, this not only gets the kids involved, into giving back to the community, helping them instill that sense of care and concern for others, it’d also made them all, healthier, it’s a great thing that’s being done here.

Hearing the Music with Love, Helping to Make the Dreams of Those Who’d Damaged Their Spines Come True

Giving back to the society, acts of charity and kindness, from the Front Page Sections, translated…

The Spinal Injuries Foundation and the Taipei Symphony on February 1^st will be holding a benefits concert, with the conductor, Lin, and violinist, Su, to perform the classical symphonies, using music, to help the society hear the difficulties, and the needs to get a job for those with spinal injuries in the population of over 20,000, and all the proceeds of the concert will be going to help those with spinal injuries get a job, offering them occupational trainings and such.

The consultant of the foundation pointed out, that there is a yearly increase of almost a thousand individuals who injured their spinal cords due to multiple accidents in Taiwan, and the average age of those injured is twenty-seven.  He’d stated, after these youths had gone through this serious impact of their lives, the only dream that they have is to “help oneself stand back up again”.

Chien said, that those with spinal injuries may be paralyzed, but they have strong wills, and could still use their intelligences to make a living, to care for themselves, and establish their sense of self-confidence and dignity.  He said, getting them a job offering is equivalent to solving their economic difficulties, that the Foundation hoped to help these injured individuals to get assimilated into the society with the practice job skill training programs.

This, is the third time that the Foundation had worked with the Taipei Love Symphonies, all the proceeds of the concerts will be donated, entirely to the foundation, into job skills trainings, entrepreneurship assistance, helping to make the workspace more friendly, and it could also help those who wanted to start their own business with funding.

And so, this is something good in the world, and, because these individuals were hurt, and are now, in need of funding, to help them stand back up, so, the symphony joined into the cause, to help them get more funding for the programs that are to be set up to assist those who need it.  That just shows, that there are many private sector nonprofit organizations that are still doing wonderful work all around.