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| Ying-pin Yeh, President of Eden Social Welfare Foundation at the Foundation's 30th Anniversary on December 1st, 2012 at Greater Taichung International Expo Centre. |
Eden Celebrates 30th Anniversary for God’s Grace and Love
Eden Social Welfare Foundation hosted a Service of Thanksgiving and a concert for its 30th anniversary at Greater Taichung International Expo Center on December 1st, 2012. More than 2000 participants joined the celebration from all over Taiwan and abroad, lending their support for the spirit of Eden Social Welfare Foundation, which will “Never Give Up” its commitment to serving those in need.
Following the Lord’s Prayer at the opening ceremony, Ying-Pin Yeh, President of Eden Social Welfare Foundation, gives a speech where he invites participants to review with him the history of Eden, whose inception dates back some thirty years ago. Having merely two full-time employees at its initial stage, Eden Social Welfare Foundation has morphed into a community with more than two thousand staff serving over ten thousand households annually. The works of Eden bear witnesses to the will of God. President Yeh encourages the staff of Eden to follow the steps and example of Saint Paul and Ms. Liu Xia, founder of Eden Social Welfare Foundation, to promote Gospel and welfare. He believes that God will send his angels among the government, private sectors, and the Church to serve the staff of Eden as long as they follow the will of God in their works. President Yeh expects Eden to continue to be the vessel of God and a blessing for the ill fortuned in the next thirty years to come. Read more here.
Following the Lord’s Prayer at the opening ceremony, Ying-Pin Yeh, President of Eden Social Welfare Foundation, gives a speech where he invites participants to review with him the history of Eden, whose inception dates back some thirty years ago. Having merely two full-time employees at its initial stage, Eden Social Welfare Foundation has morphed into a community with more than two thousand staff serving over ten thousand households annually. The works of Eden bear witnesses to the will of God. President Yeh encourages the staff of Eden to follow the steps and example of Saint Paul and Ms. Liu Xia, founder of Eden Social Welfare Foundation, to promote Gospel and welfare. He believes that God will send his angels among the government, private sectors, and the Church to serve the staff of Eden as long as they follow the will of God in their works. President Yeh expects Eden to continue to be the vessel of God and a blessing for the ill fortuned in the next thirty years to come. Read more here.
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Ms. Jin-jin Chang (left) talks to student
participants about her
own story of success with Eden's
career training program for
persons with
disabilities.
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Walk-A-Thon 2012 with Taipei Adventist American School
The 7th annual walk-a-thon for Taipei Adventist American School (TAAS) was held on November 18, 2012. Students have met this year at Taipei City Fulin Elementary School in a joint effort to raise money for disabled and economically disadvantaged persons of Eden Social Welfare Foundation’s Love without Borders Wheelchair Donation Project for Vietnam and Nepal. The proceeds will go to the project and help donate 300 wheelchairs to people with disabilities in the two developing countries.
The day of the event saw Ms. Jin-jin Chang and Ms. Hsin-hui Serena Chang, both of whom are staff members at the International and Cross-Strait Affairs Center of Eden Social Welfare Foundation, introduce to TAAS students, faculty members, and parents the work of Eden and Ms. Jin-Jin Chang’s personal testimony of her story of success at Eden’s career training program for persons with disabilities. The program helped render her economically independent and capable of standing on her own feet throughout the years. Ms. Jin-jin Chang also thanked TAAS for having the fundraiser, which helps disabled persons living in the developing world acquire their own wheelchairs, with which they are able to access education and career training that change their lives. Read more here.
Unseen: an Extraordinary Photography Exhibition
Eden Advocates for a Mine-free World with International Campaign to Ban Landmines at Geneva, Switzerland
Capacity Building Services to be Developed in Haiti by Eden
Unseen: an Extraordinary Photography Exhibition
Alicia Neo, a Singaporean visual artist in residence at Bamboo Curtain Studio in Taipei, is hosting a photographic exhibition, titled “Unseen,” at Ai-Ming Center with 6 participants with visual impairments from Eden Social Welfare Foundation.
Having joined Ms. Neo in a one-on-one workshop on photography, the six participants are encouraged to utilize photography as their new way of expression. Some are even encouraged to retrieve their memory of certain images in their works.
The workshop not only provides participants with the opportunity to acquire the basic skills in photography but encourages them to develop a new identity for themselves which they share with the general public their potential and the diversity among individuals in their community.
Venue of Exhibition:
Ai-Ming Centre
130, Guangquan Rd., Banqiao District, New Taipei City, Taiwan 220
Dates of Exhibition: Dec. 3, 7, 14, 17, 24, 28, 31
Opening hours: 09:00-12:00, 13:00-16:00
Ai-Ming Centre
130, Guangquan Rd., Banqiao District, New Taipei City, Taiwan 220
Dates of Exhibition: Dec. 3, 7, 14, 17, 24, 28, 31
Opening hours: 09:00-12:00, 13:00-16:00
Eden Advocates for a Mine-free World with International Campaign to Ban Landmines at Geneva, Switzerland
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| Right to left: Serena Chang, Section Chief of Eden Social Welfare Foundation International and Cross-Strait Affairs Center, Sylvie Brigot, Executive Director of ICBL-CMC, Jacqueline Hansen, Program Manager of Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, Muteber Ögreten, ICBL Campaigner from the Initiative for a Mine Free Turkey, and Ms. Hansen's son, at the 20th Anniversary of Internatinal Campaign to Ban Landmines at Geneva |
From 3-7 December, 2012, Eden Social Welfare Foundation joined International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) campaigners and landmine survivors from nearly 40 countries at the opening of the Twelfth Meeting of States Parties (12MSP) to the Mine Ban Treaty in Geneva, Switzerland, to call on governments to commit to eradicating antipersonnel landmines in years, not decades.
The 12MSP begins 15 years to the day after the Mine Ban Treaty was opened for signature in Ottawa in 1997 where it was signed by 122 states. “Twenty years after we began the international campaign and 15 years after achieving the Mine Ban Treaty, we are close to global acceptance of the landmine ban, and we are closing in on a mine-free world. Now we need to finish the job to ensure landmines don’t claim any more limbs and lives,” said Nobel peace laureate Jody Williams at the meeting. Read more here.
Capacity Building Services to be Developed in Haiti by Eden
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| From left to right: Claire Perrin Houdon, Coordinator
of Handicap International, Cosy Samuel, Administrative Director of Centre national de défense des démunis et handicapés, and John Bosco Kuang (center), Director of Eden Social Welfare Foundation International Affairs Center with volunteers from Centre national de défense des démunis et handicapés |
Having visited Haiti and assessed the needs of persons with disabilities affected by the earthquake in 2010, Eden Social Welfare Foundation returns to the country this November for another visit assisted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
This year, by signing the Agreement on Developing and Strengthening Haitian Associations to Improve the Socio-economic Inclusion of People with Disabilities with Eden Social Welfare Foundation and MOFA, Handicap International (HI), an internationally renowned NPO based in France and Belgium, has agreed to launch training programs for volunteers at Centre national de défense des démunis et handicapés (CNDDH), a local NGO in Haiti. The programs, supported and monitored by Eden Social Welfare Foundation and MOFA, will help persons with disabilities in Haiti rebuild their lives after the earthquake. The agreement grants a total of US$100,000 to HI for related projects. Read more here.
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