Getting to know where these adolescents come from, accompanying them, that, is the surest way to make them change for the better, the amazing work of a C.E.O. of a foundation here, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
“Just go out for a bowl of noodle with him!” ten years ago, the C.E.O. of Stand Up Home Foundation, in counseling the adolescent male, Chuang who’d misbehaved, thought of this, she’d gone to have noodles with Chuang every single week, it took a year and a half, with her patient waiting manners, it’d finally, made Chuang turn his own life back on the right paths.
The experience of “accompanying” had become the driving force for Wu’s sharing meals with adolescent who didn’t “act straight”, at most, she accompanied nine adolescent every week; last year, her foundation started recruiting volunteers who can “accompany the youths for a bowl of noodles”, and managed to put this method of counseling into the campus all around, Wu told, that “helping a broken up life win her/his own life back, I’d gotten more from back, compared to what I’d paid for the noodles.”
the woman speaking on the topics of infant care…
A decade ago, Wu was asked by juvenile court, to start life counseling sessions with the juveniles who were convicted, Chuang was her very first case. Chuang, who had a punk hairstyle, with tattoos covering his body lain sideways on the couch of her counseling office, started shaking his legs, and asked her for a beer.
Wu told, that she’d wanted to give up on him, then, all of a sudden, she’d had a thought, she’d told Chuang, “how about you and I go for a bowl of noodle every week, I’m only going to wait for you for twenty minutes to show up, I’ll pay, but if it’d cost over $150N.T.s, you’re paying, and, you are going to treat me on my birthday.”
She’d recalled, that Chuang never showed up late once, but always insulted her with his language, and had once made raucous at the noodle shops because the cost exceeded $150N.T. as he’d refused to pay up, “The worst things that were said to me, I’d heard it all in the matter of a year and a half”, until one day, Chuang was late for an hour, and he’d found that she was still waiting in the noodle shops for him, Chuang broke down, ran out of the shop and cried, “because nobody ever waited for me before.”
And ever since, the mealtimes shared by Chuang and Wu changed, Chuang started sharing with her his thoughts, and, when he had difficulties in life, he was more than willing, to try and solve it; “accompaniment is way too important for those whose lives aren’t right.” After Wu gained an understanding of this, she’d increased the members of the “noodle accompany project”, she’d once taken on a total of nine adolescents consistently for a week’s period, “it’d gotten to the point, that I’d started gagging whenever I passed a noodle shop”.
Her work of accompanying youths to dine out gained approvals, last year, the foundation started the functions of “Noodle Accompaniment” formally, currently, there are, seven volunteers, including Wu’s husband, the C.E.O. of “Dong-Ji Not-for-Profit”, Lu, as well as many doctors, coworkers at the foundation form Dong-Ji, along with many of the retired workers too.
Lu’s getting the food for the adolescents had moved the adolescents so that many of them went into the restrooms to cry aloud, there were doctors who got too busy at work, but still kept going to these meals with the youths, as well as playing sports with them too; this July, the typhoon had hit the foundation hard, and, the youths the foundation had helped counsel came back to visit, and Wu was very moved by them, “This, is what makes it all worth it!”
So, this still just shows, that the younger generations needed the accompaniment of the older generations, to show that they didn’t get discarded by the world, and this, was exactly what the program was aiming at, the woman reached out to the young men who’d acted awful, and, with her consistency in accompanying them, they’d felt moved, and changed their actions toward the better. This, is a good outreach program that this woman had started up here.
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