DENER has always been enthusiastic about providing education in the remote areas and went to Yushu, Qinghai and Ganzi, Sichuan in 2017 and 2018 to carry out the “More Reading, More Happiness” program. Once we go into that area, we could understand the difficulty living there. Due to its remoteness, the transportation of ordinary material was very difficult, and the local people mostly lived on farming and herding.

In general, very few teachers are willing to give up their excellent life style in the city and come to remote areas. Therefore, in rural schools, there has been a lack of resources as well as teachers. Teachers often need to have multiple roles, both taking regular courses and serving as school administrators taking care of children’s daily lives. To allow children to have richer learning resources, we have brought many extra-curricular books multiple times and shared a variety of reading guiding methods with the local teachers. We hope that children would have more reading resources and gradually fall in love with reading so they would have more possibilities in their future.

We understand that education needs to have deep root and must have a sustainable spirit, therefore we officially launched the “Seed Teacher Project.” We want to cultivate some students in Taiwan so that they can receive a complete and systematic education in basic knowledge of education. After completing the training and preparations, encourage these students to go to schools in Taiwan and remote regions around the world to provide teaching services.

With anticipation and a little nervousness, we started the volunteer teacher recruitment seminar on Sunday, April 28. On the day, nearly 20 volunteer friends participated. In addition to the college students, there were also some people who were passionate about education.