smart investment in humanitarian care for under-privileged

SMART INVESTMENT IN HUMANITARIAN

CARE FOR UNDER-PRIVILEGED

TOWF

TAIPEI ORPHAN WELFARE FOUNDATION

Taipei Orphan Welfare Foundation, originated from Taipei Orphan Welfare Association, was funded in 1968. In 2007 TOWA was transformed into TOWF. The Foundation has dedicated to collecting and integrating with various social resources for orphans and valuing orphans’ welfare as well as education and physical and psychological development.

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Service objectChildren under 18 lost one or both of parents, being in the school currently. Referred by all the elementary schools in Taiwan.

According to DGBAS statistics of Family Income and Expenditure SurveyWidowed parent families:2001 - 180,000 persons2010 - 220,000 persons The number of widowed families have seen an increasing trend.

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WHAT THE TOWF DO?

MISSIONS & GOALS Encouraging orphans to face the difficult

positions following unexpected lost bravely.

Inspiriting orphans to acquire the abilities of facing and resolving the problems.

Cultivating orphans to have the spirit of exerting himself/herself to make progress and to grow with health and happiness.

Training orphans to learn self-reliance and guiding them to get a job or to own a business.

Service Status

We Have 10 Offices around Taiwan, including over 40 social workers and 2 counseling psychologist and other staff of the foundation. The number of orphan in Taiwan we’ve been serving till March 2014 is 5778, and this number is still growing.

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FAMILY STRUCTURE AFTER INCIDENT

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RATIO

Father past 78％ Mother 58.34％

Mother past 15.94％ Father 8.47％

Both past 6.06％ Grand Parents 23.61％Others 9.58％

OUR SERVICES

OUR SERVICESFinancial Assistance

Scholarship - inspiring needy orphans to exert themselves on learning after losing one or both of their parents.NT$3000 per orphan per semester. More than 2000 orphans are benefit from this project.

PHOTO OF SCHOLARSHIPS

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SCHOLARSHIP DISTRIBUTIONAfter receiving the info of orphans from school, we start the procedure to visit, build up bond with them and deliver the scholarship.

OUR SERVICES

Tutorial Service

Cooperating with local community care center to provide orphans with after-school coaching.

We discover the children’s needs during the visits and provide tutorial service.

TUTORIAL SERVICE

OUR SERVICES

Counselling Service

Providing regular counselling services by counsellors in order to restore orphans’ psychological, living and social functions.

COUNSELLING

We provide counselling service to help the widowed parent family members to get over the pain of lost.

COUNSELLOR LEADS THE WIDOWED PARENTS WORKSHOP

COUNSELLOR LEADS THE WIDOWED PARENTS WORKSHOP

OUR SERVICES

Character Education

Activating growth groups to develop good character.

Life Care Regular home visits to provide essential

goods for daily life.

PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENTIt’s all about love and the truth!

RESTORE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTS AND CHILDREN WITH GROUP ACTIVITIES

OUR SERVICES

Annual Activities

Holding spring outing, summer camp, and regular field trips.

SUMMER CAMPSummer camp is a good opportunity to encourage the kids to learn to adapt the group life and good habits.

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OUR SERVICES

National Orphanage Olympic

Training the orphans of physical endurance, team cooperation, sense of honour and improving self-value and self-identification.

WHY WE HOLD NATIONAL ORPHANAGE OLYMPIC

1. We want to build up the platform of athletic competition for orphanages around the country.

2. We hope to tighten the bond between orphanages and enhance the sense of honor not only for the kids but also for the staff.

3. We try to discover potential elite sportsman through the Olympic games.

4. We wish to arouse people to show their concerns about the orphan issues with concrete actions.

ALL PREVIOUS NATIONAL ORPHANAGE OLYMPIC

　 Year Date Units Participants 　1st 2004 11/20 26 1053 　2nd 2005 12/3 27 1283 　3rd 2006 11/18 31 1484 　4th 2007 12/1 33 1652 　5th 2008 11/8 33 1598 　6th 2009 11/28 38 1685 　7th 2010 11/13 38 1900 　8th 2011 8/13 49 2650

9th 2012 7/20-7/21 37 1800

10th 2013 11/30 38 2200

THE OPENING AND CLOSING CEREMONY

SPORTS & TALENT SHOWS

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The Challenge of 2014 World Orphanage Olympic

2014 NATIONAL ORPHANAGE

OLYMPIC Time : 4 October (Saturday) 7:00 – 17:00 Venue: Taipei Gymnasium, Taipei Track & Field Stadium Attendees: 40 teams of Taiwan orphanages &

10 teams from other countries total will be 2500 orphans attend this

event Total number of volunteers: 300 - 400

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2010 NATIONAL ORPHANAGE OLYMPIC 失親兒基金會 TO

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What you can do for orphans (us)?

SINCERE DEVOTION1. Individual donation, support each orphan

families live easier.

2. Volunteers: Accompany orphan through most difficult period, including tutoring, etc.

3. Enterprise supports and collaborations

We use the donation with transparent principle.

THE ANGEL AND BABE

1.We are now providing services to 5778 kids all around the country.

2. We give NTD 500 per month for each kid. Although it is not much, it can make their life easier.

What benefits the children is our priority.

Time doesn’t wait, especially for kids’ development.

We wish to help the kids instantly whenever they need.

We want to constantly provide our services and help even only with limited resources.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH！

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