The difference that this group of college age volunteers made to the children in the local tribes, they’d helped the children feel loved, shown them the cares and concerns they lacked from their families, and sought out elsewhere, helping the children to stay on the right tracks of life, from the Newspapers, translated…
“Thank you for helping me realize, that there are still, good people in the world”.
The Ibu Tribe Co-Learning programs team are a group of intercollegiate students who got together in July of 20165, headed to the Wuling Village in Taidong, to accompany the children and adolescents locally for a long time. A dropout middle school youth who’d gone in and out of jail, told the team’s leader, Ning Kong, “Thank you for letting me know, that there are still good people in this world.”
The team of college students won the excellent service group awards from the Department of Education this year.
the toys that the children made themselves, taught by the volunteers, photo courtesy of UDN.com…
“Ibu” was a word from Bunon Tribe, in the area of the service, it’d meant “being gentle and generous”, and this name was given to the leader of the volunteer group by the children in the tribe at first, and, the leader, to remind herself, to NEVER forget why she was there in the first place, and made a pact with the children in the local tribes, and she’d used “Ibu” as a name for the volunteer group she’d led.
Other than being stationed in the tribes during the summer and winter breaks, the Ibu Tribe Co-Learning Group would meet every one or two months during the school year, and, they’d keep the correspondences through mail, phone, and online chats with the children in the local tribes, and the counselors locally.
Kong said, these children in the tribes are like a round stationary ball, they’d had the inborn good qualities, “so long as someone gives them a push, they will keep rolling”. And the children and adolescents needed not just the long-term support from the tribes, but also, the acknowledgements, the company from the outside world too.
the chilren with the college volunteers, out on a bike ride trip together, photo courtesy of UDN.com…
A young man who’d dropped out of middle school who’d gotten involved in the gangs, who had been imprisoned told Kong, “Thank you for letting me know, there are still good people on earth, I hope that one day, I can turn into a good person like you too!”, this made Kong realized, that she has the capabilities, to “make life more beautiful” for others in need.
And so, through volunteering, this group of volunteers realized that their presence in the tribes was making a huge difference to the children locally, and, they are going to keep going back to the tribes, to offer the support the kids needed, that they couldn’t get from their homes, or locally.
Life, the Obstacle Course 