2013年5月21日 星期二

Eden E-news: No. 7 | May 2013

Experts Present at Eden’s Cross-Strait Community Reconstruction Workshop/Symposium after Sichuan Earthquake

On 1 May, 2013, Eden Social Welfare Foundation hosted the Cross-Strait Workshop/Symposium on Disaster Aid and Community Reconstruction in Taipei, where experts and professionals were invited to share and exchange with one another their work and first-hand experience in the area of community reconstruction after recent major disasters such as Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan in 2009 and the Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan Province, China, in 2008. Read more here. 
 
 
 

Cheers for an Inspiring Professional Exchange among Eden's Staff Representative and International NGOs at 2013 InterAction Forum in Washington D.C.
On 29th April to 1st May, 2013, Ms. Chia Yin Pan, staff representative of Eden Social Welfare Foundation at the annual InterAction Forum, headed for Washington D.C. to attend a three-day event presided over by the American Voluntary International Action. With nearly 1,000 attendees representing hundreds of organizations from all over the world, this year’s InterAction Forum features a wide variety of workshops and tracks on issues critical to the development of common solutions to the challenges faced by the world’s marginalized and impoverished communities. Read more here.

Caption: Mr. Zhong Lin Ma (right), Deputy Director-general of Department of International Information Services, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China (Taiwan) and Ms. Chia Yin Pan, Eden's representative at 2013 InterAction Forum in Washington D.C.






120 Wheelchairs Donated to Victims of Lushan (China) Earthquake by Eden
Ms. Xiao Quan Tang (central), Vice Chairperson of China Disabled Persons'
Federation receives, on behalf of the Federation, wheelchair donation from
Eden's representative, Mr. Meng Lun Xie (first from left), Project Manager
at Eden's Service Center in Sichuan.


A 7 magnitude earthquake broke out at 8:02 am on April 20, 2013, in Sichuan Province, China. In the advent of such a large scale disaster which resulted in an overwhelming number of victims to be assisted, Eden Social Welfare Foundation has stood steadfast to its commitment to serving persons with disabilities by working with its local staff members, organized by Ms. Ruo Yun Hong, social worker at Eden’s service center in Sichuan, to assess the needs of communities in the disaster area soon after the earthquake. The effort has resulted in the successful donation of 120 wheelchairs on 7th May, 2013, to those who were severely injured in the earthquake. Read more here.

 



Hirotada Ototake Supports Persons with Disabilties on the Premier of His Autobiographical Movie, “No Body’s Perfect”
 
Having visited Taiwan 13 years ago, the internationally renowned sport journalist from Japan, Hirotada Ototake, also a person with disabilities as a result of tetra-amelia syndrome, is invited by the Taiwan-based Sky Digi Entertainment Co. for the national premier of his latest film, Nobody’s Perfect, on 3rd May, 2013.

At the press conference on the premier day, Ototake was joined by Ms. Xue Xiang Huang, Director of Eden’s Resource Development Center, as he called upon the general public in Taiwan to establish an amiable social environment for persons with disabilities. Read more here.


 
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2013年5月7日 星期二

Eden E-news: No. 6 | April 2013

 Special Report: Workshop on International Classification of Functioing, Disability and Health

In the conference, Dr. Fougeyrollas and Dr. Sato give in-depth
presentations on the different approaches with which the
government of Canada (Quebec) and Japan apply or modify the
concept of ICF.
On 25th March, 2013, Eden Social Welfare Foundation cooperated with The League of Welfare Organizations for the Disabled in the international exchange program, Proud to Be Myself-Challenges and Response to the New Identification System, where professionals from various fields were invited from Japan, Canada (Quebec), and Taiwan to share their experience in the implementation of ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health), approved by World Health Organization.
 
A congregation of distinguished guest speakers presenting in the conferece includes Dr. Patrick Fougeyrollas, Directeur de l’enseignment et du soutien scientifique, Dr. Hisao Sato, Professor at Japan College of Social Work, Dr. Heng Hao Chang, Professor at National Taipei University Department of Sociology, as well as governmental representatives of Taiwan's Ministry of the Interior Department of Health and the Department of Social Affairs. Read more here.

Eden Donates 100 Wheelcahirs to Rural Nepal

Eden's staff member from Taiwan assists first-time
users of wheelchairs in villages of Nepal.

In late March, the emblem of Eden Social Welfare Foundation is proudly observed in the mountains of rural Nepal, where Eden’s two staff members from Taiwan traveled thousands of miles and donated a total of 100 brand new wheelchairs to local villagers with disabilities. Staff members at Eden have been working incessantly on the project since 2012 after learning from our fellow ICBL (International Campaign to Ban Landmines) campaigner in Nepal the dire need for wheelchairs among the country's rural residents with disabilities.
 
Eden Social Welfare Foundation would also like to thank the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and our local allies from Women Development Society in Nepal for their assistance with this wheelchair donation project. The project marks Eden's first success with its international work in Nepal and would not have happened without their help.
 
Along with the 100 wheelchairs donated to Nepal, Eden also donated 200 wheelchairs to persons with disabilities in Vietnam around the same time after the country's many previous successes in receiving wheelchair donations from Eden. The final cost of Eden's most recent attempt to donate a total of 300 wheelchairs to Nepal and Vietnam amounts to approximately USD 31,000. Read more here.


An Exchange of Accessible Housing Ideas with Eden and Hong Kong PHAB Association


On 25th March, 2013, Hong Kong PHAB (physically handicapped and able-bodied) Association calls on Eden Social Welfare Foundation for a tour of Eden’s accessible housing project in New Taipei City. Staff representatives of the hosting and visiting organization have both benefitted a lot from the face to face exchange of firsthand experience in accessible housing. Read more here.
 
*Caption: Ms. Jin Jin Chang (front row left), Specialist at Eden, shares with Mr. Kenny So, Asssitant Manager of Hong Kong PHAB Association, her professional experience in the field of accessible housing and her expectations of the industry's future development in Taiwan.


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