After long-planned volunteer recruitment, teacher training and teaching preparation, the awaited opportunity for field teaching has finally come.
This year’s teaching event was held in Yujing, Tainan. The ” Reading into the Tea World” teaching event was jointly organized with “Tathagata’s Home Humanity Care Association”
Yujing is famous for growing mango. Most of the parents here are mostly farmers. Farming season is very busy and many children would take on the burden of housework since childhood, sharing the heavy work and taking care of elder.
The children in Yujing are less resourceful than children in the city. Even color photocopies are only available in larger areas. Hence, the teaching resources are even more scarce.
During the busy farming season, many children would wander on the street. Ven. Juexin, who had originally wanted to practice in retreat in Yujing, felt great compassion and opened the door of Tathagata’s Home.
Tathagata’s Home, not only provides academic counseling for children from rural areas, but also organizes a variety of social educational activities on a regular basis in order to open up a brighter future for children in Yujing.