Taiwan Fund for Children and Families: Safeguarding the Smiles of Children

Taiwan Fund for Children and Families has had 56 years of accompanying disadvantaged families in Tainan. Since 2015, KTB has provided nearly 200 pings (approximately 661 square meters) of land in Tainan City for free for eighth consecutive year for the Tainan Fund for Children and Families to establish a "Parent-Child Happy School". The school aims to be a resource center of preliminary prevention of child neglect and abuse, to provide a stable location and therapy for underprivileged children and their families, and to provide information on where to seek appropriate help. There are many soft and hard facilities related with children protection in the school, and diversified topic parents child activities are often held, to improve parents-child interaction relationship with the concept of "parents-child co-work, co-creation and co-learning".

In addition to provide site for free, we continue to deepen the cooperation with Taiwan Fund for Children and Families in Tainan, and combine social welfare with core banking function or environmental issues via various activities, making social welfare not only be limited to the "donation" channel.

 KTB's Vice Chairman, Mr. Tsai, donates his personal articles for charity sale every year, and the income of which is donated to the Taiwan Fund for Children and Families in full.
 In 2022, by combining with "KTB World Earth Day - Barter Activity", KTB invited the Headquarters peers to donate more food and epidemic prevention and control supplies.
 KTB donates micro group accident insurance to disadvantaged families tutored by Taiwan Fund for Children and Families in Tainan, providing an insurance amount as high as NT$500,000 per insured person. We hope that KTB can not only provide the disadvantaged families with spiritual support, but also open a protection net of insurance for them, so as to help them out in the face of accidents. KTB donated a total of 84 policies in 2022.

Program the World Association (PTWA) becomes the light to children

The Program the World Association (PTWA) was established by Professor Wen-Yu Su from National Cheng Kung University in 2016, and it is devoted to teaching children in remote rural areas to write programs since learning to program is the start of cultivating logic. This is also an industry for starting one's own business without limitation to region. It's hoped that, by virtue of companion teaching and long-term planning, we can enable the children in remote rural areas to change their situation in the long term. Since January 2022, KTB has been leasing the rooms on the second floor of Eastern Tainan Branch for free, to serve as "Program the World Innovation Education Base" of PTWA, so as to help PTWA also have a site in Southern Taiwan. It aims to enable more adolescents to have the opportunity of having access to different education resources and opportunities, and train more programming teachers.

Programming is not use of rigid and difficult language, but a comprehensive application. The existence of "Program the World Innovation Education Base" also enables PTWA to hold more diversified activities, touching more children with potential. In July 2022, KTB, PTWA and the School of Innovative Product Design of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology worked together to hold The First 2D/3D National Computer Drawing Competition; compared with traditional drawing media, computer drawing has a relatively lower threshold, especially for those children with special needs (e.g. autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or learning disabilities of other types). Computer can greatly reduce the children's feeling of learning frustration. According to previous teaching experience of PTWA, it is also discovered that most students have significantly improved their cognitive competence during the process of computer drawing. The Drawing Competition was funded by donations from KTB in full, including provision of admission scholarship and transportation allowance for poverty students participating in the final. On the current day of the event, total 28 students entered the final and obtained scholarship. We hope that, by virtue of this computer drawing competition, we can drive more enterprises to find new directions for education of the next generation together.

Ronald Mcdonald House, accompanying with love

"Ronald McDonald House Charities Foundation" was donated and established by MacDonald in Taiwan in 1997. The first "Ronald McDonald House" was settled in Taipei City in April 2007, providing a "home away from home" for families of sick children who seek medical treatment across counties and cities. Besides, "Ronald McDonald Parents-Child Room" was set up in Taichung Veterans General Hospital. By providing free accommodation and care service and accompanying with love, it helps the sick children to face the challenge of life bravely together with their families. At present, the second "Ronald McDonald House" is under preparatory construction in Kaohsiung. Its well-known by KTB that Kaohsiung City has three major medical centers, and shoulders the responsibility for emergency and severe medical institutions in Southern Taiwan, and there are about 20%-30% cases belonging to seeking medical treatment across regions in each medical institution. Therefore, KTB made generous donation in the first place, hoping to call on people of all walks of life to work together for health and well-being of the children, thus helping more families in need, and reducing their economic burden from transportation and accommodation for seeking medical treatment.

Giving Back to the Community

We know that there are still many people who need our help and care in many unseen corners throughout the society. Therefore, KTB constantly encourages all its branch offices in various cities to take initiative to care for any groups in need, hoping to see figures wearing the orange KTB vest lending a helping hand in many locations.