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The Michelle Chiou Foundation seeks to solve are complex and require a sustained commitment from our staff and partner schools to deliver the needed results.
Here's an overview of our programs in Taiwan: |
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Project - MCF Learning Center (free to students) |
(I) Physical Courses
The purpose of establishing the learning center is to cultivate students’ overall learning interests and establish their basic English communication abilities, which shall serve as employment advantages in the future. Doing so not only narrows the urban-rural gap, it also offers the necessary educational resources to the economic disadvantaged. Aside from the reinforcement in schoolwork, attention is specially attached to the English communication ability. The Center will further include programs such as music, arts, computer science application, sports, and dance to explore students’ potentials and expand their international horizons. Apart from the center in Zhunan, MCF Taiwan would set up more learning centers in other areas to provide services for more local students. 
(II) Online Courses (Due to the severe Covid-19 outbreak)
Due to the severe Covid-19 outbreak, the Ministry of Education has announced that all levels of schools nationwide shall suspend all classes from May 19th 2021. So far, the alert has been extended three times until July 12th 2021. On the first week of the emergency class suspension, the chairman instantly instructed the substitution plan of online classes. With reference to cases in Europe and America, the alert is not likely to be canceled within a short period of time. However, students’ learning may not be suspended. We purchased tablets, notebooks, WIFI routers, and relevant auxiliary items for students to borrow and use. We also assist students in taking online courses provided by the school. After all, students at our center are all from underprivileged families that have problems of no equipment at home or poor internet signal.
III) Self-progress or best performance Scholarship
Same as the content of Self-progress or best performance Scholarship under Project - Education and Career Development Program for Students from Underprivileged families. 
(IV) Mental Counseling and Career Exploration
Our children in MCF Learning Center are generally shy and lack confidence. Upon the establishment of the MCF Learning Center, our chairman-Michelle instructed that our primary target is to improve students’ learning interests. The center aims to substitute the systematic teaching at school with lively and active methods and mostly recruited teachers with tutoring and academic counseling experiences for years. They gained achievements in guiding students’ learning. However, the effects of the students’ families of orientation on their learning require professional assistance. According to the instruction of our chairman, mental counseling activities shall be arranged to help children from underprivileged families in dealing with their emotions and the past negative experiences and seeing themselves and accepting themselves, and discover their life careers, directions, and targets in the future, and in turn being courageous in trying and challenging themselves for discovering the limitless possibilities of life. 
(V) Incentive Point Collection
To provide a learning environment with orders to children and considering the opinions of children to be respected for them to feel fairness and become willing to observe, the homeroom teachers and students jointly established the class regulations. Furthermore, to encourage a healthy learning attitude, they established the regulations for incentive point collection. |
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Project - Student Learning Collaboration Program with
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(I) Collaborate with School to Open Classes~ Nanzhuang Junior High School
With improving students’ learning interests as the primary goal, we visited schools with identical concepts and let the schools establish the plan by adopting methods different from general systematic teaching methods at schools. The schools are responsible for arranging teachers, the time of classes, and the use of classrooms. Our foundation is responsible for recruiting foreign teachers, purchasing teaching materials, providing snacks for students, and learning records of students. We collaborated with Nanzhuang Junior High School to open the class from spring semester 2021 to summer vacation, but the program in the fall semester 2021 could not be renewed for some particular reasons. The class might restart pretty soon. 
(II) Collaborate with the Third-party - BOYO Social Welfare Foundation on Remedial Teaching ~ Sanwan Junior High School
To assist students in remote townships who generally have academic achievement lagging behind due to their family environments and relatively fewer resources, we collaborate with BOYO Social Welfare Foundation. That foundation was established in 2002; it focuses on improving the education standards for students from underprivileged families through after-school counseling, and in turn improve their competitive strength, which is consistent with the purpose of our foundation. Regarding the project, schools are responsible for arranging teacher candidates and students who require remedial teaching, BOYO Social Welfare Foundation is responsible for providing teachers’ training, text books, exam papers, the adjustments to the program progress and our foundation is responsible for the funding of the program, students’ learning records, assistance in student care and etc. The program for this period in Sanwan Junior High School is for students in grade 7 from September 22nd 2021, to January 13th 2022, 4 days a week, 2 classes per day, total 130 classes and the remedial subjects and English and mathematics. |