| Category:2 | | Community Groups and Special Populations | | Description of Our Community |  | Taipei Municipal Changan Elementary School is located
Zhongshan District and south of the downtown Taipei City. School is
closed to the business district and has convenient transportation.
There are Songjiang-Nanjing MRT Station and Jilin-Nanjing bus Station.
CCNDA
is located at No.45, Lane 33, Section 1, Jianguo North Road. It takes
5-10 minutes to get from Changan Elementary School to CCNDA by Bus 52
or Bus 202 and 25 minutes by walking. CCNDA, serving eight boroughs of
southern Zhongshan District in Taipei City, is a local group caring for
the disadvantaged. |
| | Summary of Our Project | It
is social fairness and justice caring for the disadvantaged. We
discovered that our society still lacks of caring for the disadvantaged
students, groups, and areas. Without counseling assistance or measures,
the weak people may always be weak and the strong people may always be
strong, which will hurt the society’s stability and development.
Therefore, it is urgent to build an environment that helps the
disadvantaged people and develops sound social welfare. We hope the
introduction of CCNDA can encourage everyone to respect diversity, care
for the disadvantaged people and fulfill civic responsibilities.
| | Our Computer and Internet Access | Our
teacher built the Changan 27CWSC web platform for us to upload and
update data as well as handing in assignments. When we had no time to
meet together, we also used the website discussion forum to discuss.
Our teachers also let us use the computers in the classroom of gifted
students during lunch and recess to complete our study progress.
| | Problems We Had To Overcome | Data compilation | After
interviews, we had to organize the data. We divided tasks, such as
writing scripts, writing interview thoughts, and compiling data. The
data was very helpful for our research. After the survey, we did
statistical analysis and created bar graphs to help us study data. The
process for discussion and reading graphs was very time-consuming, but
we became more efficient as time went by and our experience grew. It
proves our abilities did grow.
| Time and Efficiency |
We decided the topic in mid-September. Most
off-campus teaching and services were executed in November, so it was
the busiest period. The activities during this period included activity
planning, interviews, writing and editing, and website data collection.
We almost could not take so much work during the short period of time,
so we needed to watch and help each another in order to complete the jobs
efficiently. Also, we needed to fulfill our weekly progress goals,
because any delay would accumulate and cause the schedule fall behind.
| Teamwork |
Work distribution is a very important procedure. The
principle is distributing our work according to our ability and
expertise, so that we complete each job easily and more efficiently.
We first chose our jobs according to our own expertise,
and then took our teacher’s suggestions. Teamwork is very important; we
couldn’t have gotten our jobs down without the encouragement of our
supervisor and each other, thus, we created strong relationship of
tactful understanding and cooperation within ourselves.
| | Our Project Sound Bite | During
the interview, we learned much that we did not know before, which
changed our team’s original perspective and impression of the topic.
Mr. Hung-en Chang, the Secretary-General, told us that companionship
provides us strength. Children need adults to accompany them, since
that is where their security comes from, and hence accompaniment is a
great thing. The selfless care and dedication coming from our volunteer
teachers taught us that their love came from their heart. From this
Cyberfair project, we learned that we needed to respect people who do
not have what we have and understand the difficulties caused by
difference. We also improved our research ability and language. Most
importantly, we learned to help one another and care for the
disadvantaged. We hope our research can encourage more people to care
for society and make it more harmonious.
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