Volunteer Service
“Entering into children’s mind with love, and believing that companionship can change the children’s world” is the intention of the Novatek Foundation’s volunteer team for many years. Through youth volunteer services, and by taking a one-to-one approach, visually impaired and disadvantaged students are guided into learning in real-life scenarios. In addition, having volunteers to accompany them encourages disadvantaged students to challenge themselves to new things, allowing them to enhance their interpersonal communication skills and increase their self-confidence. In addition, since 2022, Novatek has sponsored the "Sea Viewing Park" of the Hsinchu Air Quality Purification Zone, and arranged corporate volunteers to regularly clean the environment, care for the planting, and even expand the maintenance and sponsorship area. Novatek is committed to contributing to environmental conservation and making efforts to maintain the surroundings, and hopes to make a difference with its corporate power.
Over the past 13 years, Novatek’s volunteers have adhered to their original intentions and used practical actions to accompany the learning and growth of visually impaired students, caring teenagers and disadvantaged students. With such efforts, Novatek was awarded the “2019 Excellent Utilization Unit for Volunteer Service in Education” by the Youth Development Administration, Ministry of Education (MOE) and the “2018~2022 Youth Volunteer Outstanding Utilization Unit” double volunteer awards for 5 consecutive years. In the future, we will continue to move forward with the momentum of love, give full play to the power of corporate volunteers, and contribute our own strength to give back to the society, bringing the warmth of love to wherever we go.
In addition, starting from 2022, Novatek has implemented a trial program for "Corporate Volunteer Leave," which provides paid volunteer leave for employees, with each person entitled to 16 hours of volunteer leave per year. With a total of 2,367 volunteer hours throughout the year, Novatek encourages employees to participate in social welfare in a more flexible and diverse manner, from the bottom up. This initiative allows Novatek to contribute to society and the environment, and fulfill its responsibility as a responsible corporate citizen.
Volunteer for accompanying visually impaired students on countryside tour and local food exploration
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Problem to be solved:： |
80% of human learning is based on the use of eyes. For children who lose their eyesight, this is equal to being behind a large proportion of normal children at the starting point of learning. For children who have congenital or acquired vision problems, due to the visual impairment, their learning and movements are limited.
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visually impaired students |
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Novatek takes imaging and display technology as its core capabilities. Since 2010, Novatek Foundation has been providing long-term companionship to visually impaired students at Taichung School for the Visually Impaired and organized the “countryside tour and local food exploration courses for visually impaired students”. Through the one-to-one guidance provided by our volunteers, these students are led out of the school and into the natural world. By using the four- senses learning method of listening, touching, smelling, and tasting, they walk on trials with ecologically diverse natural habitats to appreciate the beauty of seasonal changes and recognize the characteristics of plants and animals, allowing them to use non-visual approaches to engage in agricultural experiences, local farming and other activities. In 2022, due to the severe COVID-19 pandemic, many volunteer activities were suspended. Starting from October, the activities of accompanying the visually impaired students from Taichung School for the Visually Impaired and in Changhua to experience outdoor ecology has begun.
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| 540 hours In 2022, 6 sessions of volunteer services were held, with 540 volunteer hours provided. A total of 61 visually impaired students were served. |
1,285 students Over the past 13 years, 10,566 volunteer hours have been provided, offering long-term companionship for a total of 1,285 visually impaired students. |
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Volunteer service for high-care disadvantaged students
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Disadvantaged children with imperfect family functions and long-term residence in resettlement institutions have limited cultural stimulation and limited life experience as well as horizons due to insufficient family resources.
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Disadvantaged children |
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Since 2010, Novatek volunteers have been accompanying and caring for the students of the “Night Angel Program” in Puhe, and Peiping Elementary Schools in Hsinchu County, as well as the children of the “Hsinchu Renai Orphanage”. Through the long-term companionship and guidance of Novatek’s volunteers, we can give more warmth and care to disadvantaged children with imperfect family, and increase the opportunities for the resource-limited children to get to know more about humanities. Through the activity design and on-the-spot learning, disadvantaged children can learn from the activities in an interesting way and experience cultural stimulations that is rarely encountered in their daily life.. |
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| 90 hours In 2022, 1 session of volunteer services was held, with 90 volunteer hours provided. A total of 11 disadvantaged children were served.. |
1,048 children Over the past 13 years, 6,291 volunteer hours were provided, offering long-term companionship for a total of 1,048 disadvantaged children. |
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Volunteers for high-care disadvantaged teenagers
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Disadvantaged teenagers who live in resettlement institutions have suffered from changes in their families and loss of their family functions. These disadvantaged teenagers have insufficient resources for imagining and exploring their future careers.
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Disadvantaged teenagers |
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Since 2016, the Novatek Foundation has chosen to accompany teenage students who are highly-caring, economically disadvantaged, and weak in learning. Through the companionship of Novatek volunteers on a one-to-one basis, students participated in one-day learning activities. The “Disadvantaged Teenager Workplace Exploration Activity” was organized, with volunteers accompany teenage students to explore a new type of workplace, trying various farming activities and work experience. Such experience enables junior and senior high school students to understand various career choices and the knowledge of related field, enjoying the happiness of mental and physical relaxation. Through learning from the volunteers in close, we allowed the disadvantaged teenagers to learn about different ways of social life. |
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| 396 hours In 2022, 4 sessions of volunteer services were held, with 396 volunteer hours provided. A total of 42 disadvantaged students were served. |
361 students Over the past 6 years, 3,015 volunteer hours were provided, offering long-term companionship for a total of 361 disadvantaged students. |
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Environmental Protection Volunteer
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To maintain public leisure spaces, promote air purification, protect green spaces and air quality, while also providing opportunities for leisure, ecological education, and sustainable resource utilization for the public.
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"Sea Viewing Park" of the Hsinchu Air Quality Purification Zone |
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Starting from 2022, Novatek sponsored the "Sea Viewing Park" of the Hsinchu Air Quality Purification Zone. This area has a total of 69 plants with a carbon sink capacity of 4.237 tons of carbon dioxide, which can naturally purify 6,007 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. The Company has also voluntarily expanded its maintenance and sponsorship area beyond the original one-hectare zone, demonstrating its commitment to promoting environmental sustainability and preserving the natural ecology through the joint efforts of the Company and its volunteers.
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| 18 hours Starting from 2022, volunteers of Novatek regularly visit the "Sea Viewing Park" of the Hsinchu Air Quality Purification Zone, 18 volunteer hours were provided. |
3 sessions Volunteers of Novatek regularly visit the "Sea Viewing Park" of the Hsinchu Air Quality Purification Zone to carry out environment cleaning work for three sessions. |
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Visually impaired students
I have had a lot of fun participating in the recent activity held by Novatek, where I got to experience many different DIY projects and learn about various ecosystems. I am personally very interested in plant ecology, so I really enjoyed the activities. Everyone seemed to enjoy the event as well, and I hope that Novatek will continue to hold these events, with a variety of different experiences for participants. I want to thank the teachers and volunteers who led us through the activities, as well as the local service staff who provided us with explanations and instructions. They really helped us to gain a lot from each activity held by Novatek. I hope that the organizers will continue to hold these events, as I have also made new friends and met different people through them. It's been great to interact and exchange ideas with them during the event, and I've really enjoyed the experience overall.
Disadvantaged children
I am grateful for the support and investment from the Novatek Foundation, which has enabled children from disadvantaged families in Yu Shan Elementary School to feel the warmth of a home-like school environment through the Night Angel Program. With consistent after-school companionship, the children are slowly but surely moving towards the direction of "planting an action, reaping a habit; planting a habit, reaping a personality; planting a personality, reaping a destiny." By completing homework assignments and taking responsibility for themselves, and through activities such as puzzle games, bean art, illustration exercises, and physical training, the children have expanded their own interests. Together, the teachers and children have created many wonderful and touching memories in the Night Angel Class.
Volunteers for high-care disadvantaged teenagers
Even though we didn't have our own phones during the class, we still enjoyed acting and filming. The volunteers were very nice, lending us their phones to film and even letting me edit the footage. I learned a lot from the short film creation and experience course, and I appreciate the social worker for arranging this opportunity for us. I paid close attention while taking the class and remembered the words said by the teacher, "Yi Xue". I am happy because this experience broadened my horizons and I never realized that this seemingly simple knowledge could become a subject of study.
Visually impaired students
Thanks to the volunteers of Novatek for their dedication in organizing the event, allowing me to have the opportunity to participate in such a fulfilling and interesting day of field activities including, taro harvesting, earth oven building, ginger digging, orange picking, which were all new experience for me and was quite fun. Although I was unable to see the beautiful scenery because of my physical limitation, I will always remember the event when you were around.
