Like the concepts of substitution coffee? From the Front Page Sections, translated…
“What the distant schools lacked is NOT the resources, but the visionaries,”, the man who conceptualized the idea of substitution courses, Lin, sat at his office in the city, but, had his mind on the women and children’s welfare, in the distant regions.
Lin, a thirty-six year-old, was sent abroad at the age of thirteen, after he’d graduated from Washington Business School, he’d worked for the banking industries, but, after his child was born, he’d started caring about the education, back in 2013, he’d set up the “All-Knowing Learning Web”, to implant the belief, of how adults need to keep on learning after they’re out of school, to put forth the idea that “Everybody is a teacher, and, classrooms are everywhere.”
Until the Jie-Shou Middle School came to find him, the teachers wanted to find a dance teacher for these children primarily, from the Atayal Tribes, but were without the funding. Lin had though, that there was a café in Italy, where someone had anonymously paid for a cup of coffee ahead of time, so, someone who wanted a cup could get a free serving of it, and so, he’d put forth the idea of sospeso into the teaching courses, and started raising the funds, using the idea of “You can buy a course for a child”.
In a short twenty-four hours, he’d managed, to raise twenty thousand dollars, Lin found a professional dance instructor, and sent her up into the mountains, to teach this group of children. What moved Lin the most, was not the kindness of strangers, but how the kids had realized, that they could make a living off of a skill, such as dancing, and, the kids saw hopes for their own future, in the dance instructor.
The courses that Lin put forth are completely unrelated to the academics, cooking, dancing, art, and discovering the mountains, “in the past, the website had accumulated the resources of over two thousand instructors, and, finding the instructors became our area of expertise.” Lin stressed, most people couldn’t make it up the mountains, or the seaside, to help these children in person, but they could use the sospeso program, with the price of a cup of coffee, to help these kids, see their dreams come true.
“The children from the far away regions aren’t academically challenged, they’d given up on learning altogether.” Two years ago, when Jeng went to the mountain region of Fuxing District to teach, she’d realized, that because of the native students’ lack of resources, they gave up easily on themselves. She’d used the “sospeso courses” program, and asked a professional dancer, to come to set up a “Dancers in the Mountains” course, to help broaden her students’ horizons.
The student, Chang said, that he loved dancing, he wanted to go to a professional institution for it, because he’d wanted the extra practice time, he’d joined in the dancing program again this year. The student, Kao said, the through “Dancers in the Mountains” program, she was able to get the courses that only those in the cities can have, although the process is tiring, but she is truly happy, that she was, giving this opportunity to learn.
And so, this concept can be used, in almost everything, you can prepay for something that someone needs in the future, and this, is just, the cycle of kindness, and it still started with just one person’s careful thought and considerations too.
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