Some good news, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
The winners of the lotteries in the encouragements of the Taiwan Lottery Company, in a decade’s time, donated close to $4.5 billion N.T.s, and managed to help over 4.9 million people in the lower social economic statuses; the papers started the “Share, Care, Love” columns, hoping that it can lead the rest of the community, into showing more care and concerns to those in the unfortunate part of our society.
The city of Hsinbei is vast, there are, a lot of, distant areas, the government in Hsinbei, in order to tailor to the needs of children in the distant regions, they’d set up the “Toy Bank”, and after the funding of $8.5 million N.T. donated by the Taiwanese Lotto Company, many toy banks were set up, the mobile toy trucks, the playpens, and it’d drawn a lot of donations from the various enterprises, keeping this cycle of kindness, of love going.
all of these, are toys donated by people, photo from a newspaper here…
The manager of the Social Services Department of Hsinbei City, Chang said, there are, mostly cross-generation upbringing families in the distant regions, the grandparents didn’t know how to connect with the younger generation, and, due to this lack of common topic, there came, a gap, and there are, less resources, that was why, the workers thought up of the “Playing the Toys Together” plan, through the toys, the grandparents and grandchildren started connecting, getting along even better.
At the starting stages of the program, the toy bank lacked the funding, the Taiwanese Lotto Company donated the money from the sales of the tickets. The city government first set up a storage for the toys, collecting the toys from all across Taiwan, and, the toy doctors, the volunteers then, cleaned up and fixed up the toys, maintained them, following, the workers started remaking the toys, redesigning the items, making them into something that’s, brand new.
The reborn toys, entering into the distant areas, relied solely on the toy delivery trucks. Yeliu, Shrding, Pingling, Laomei, and Wulai and other places, all had the tire prints of the toy delivery trucks; with the tents set, the grandparents and children entered into the toy delivery trucks to play, and they’re allowed to, take their toys out under the tree to play with, and sometimes, the elders are having more fun playing than the children were!
The toy banks tailored to the needs of the children living in the distant regions, the “Gathering Play Station” that was set up, also became the best place for children in the early intervention program to hang out in. Chang said, whether it be language, body, or emotionally delayed developing children, they’d flash that smile as they saw the toys, became willing to communicate with words, showing that feeling of joy, it’d made the program going.
with the various toys the kids can select to play with, photo from online…
Chang said, that the toy banks are like treasure troves, through the funding from Taiwanese Lotto Company, with the businesses getting on board, donating the funds, help collecting the used toys. Up to January this year, with the assistance of 1,200 volunteers, recycling nearly a ton’s worth of toys, and, helping over ten thousand in need.
So, this, is a great program, offering the toys, that children who lacked them because of their socioeconomic statuses the opportunity at a better childhood.
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