Corporate social responsibility • COVID-19 • Events
Your Kindness Lights Up These Darkest Corners
Support Homeless Taiwan Association to make the society warmer.
Our lives in Taiwan are no longer the same after Central Epidemic Command Center raised epidemic warning to level 3 COVID alert.
It hits those who live on the street even harder.
我們的生活，自從發布三級警戒後再也不一樣了。
而其中被影響最大的，就是這群以街頭為家的人們。
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All the meal services and water dispensers in public areas are closed. Temporary job opportunities that the homeless had depended on, such as sign holding, dish washing .. etc, have also disappeared. At the first week of level 3 alert, some of them started to search for food in garbage bins for survival.
許多供餐機構因為避免群聚都停止供餐了，公共區域的飲水機關閉，原本無家者賴以為生的臨時工機會像是舉牌、洗碗雜工等等也消失了，我們甚至發現有人在三級之後開始翻找垃圾桶裡的食物維生，街頭上的無家者正面臨著一場生存危機。
That's the reason why Homeless Taiwan Association (Wanhua district), Do You A Flavor (Taipei Main Station area) and Salvation Army (Datong and Zhongshan District) started to partner with The Task Force on the Homelessness, Taipei City Social Welfare Department to extend the outreach service to provide food and necessities for those who do not have a home to shelter themselves.
這就是為什麼我們和台北市社會局遊民專責小組協調後，以各單位分區外展的方式（大同中山：救世軍街友中心，台北車站：人生百味，萬華：社團法人台灣芒草心慈善協會）提供食物及防疫物資等必需用品給這群無法宅在家的人們。
It's roughly 400-500 survival packs consumed everyday to serve the homeless in Wanhua and Taipei Main Station area. Homeless Taiwan Association and Do You A Flavor partner with IMMA (to provide storage and packing service) to resolve the warehouse logistics and also provide job opportunities to those disadvantages who lost their job during the pandemic.
我們粗估每日需準備 400-500 份物資包給在棲息在萬華以及台北車站附近的人們，還好在一個月前就開始和一碼IMMA合作，將如此大量的物資的倉儲和打包流程建立起來，確保街頭上的人們不會斷糧，同時也和夢想城鄉以及浪人食堂合作，提供工作機會給在疫情中失去工作的個案參與物資入庫分類及打包作業。
Homeless Taiwan Association would like to thank those who are willing to share their kindness.
They never thought they would be able to build this up in a short time and all these services are funded by donations.
同時我們也很感謝大家不吝於給予善意，我們才能夠在這麼短的時間靠著大家熱情的捐款和物資把這整套臨時的救急服務建立起來。
If you're willing to support them, you can make your donation HERE.
如果您想要支持我們正在做的事，歡迎透過捐款繼續協助無家者
If you'd like to donate food and necessities, they are also working on a system (in Chinese and English) to receive goods (food, water, face mask, sanitizer ...etc). It will be available soon.
如果您想要捐贈食物或防疫物資，線上捐物系統正在籌備中，很快就會上線。在這之前您可以從下列管道了解目前需要什麼物資：
芒草心物資募集： https://reurl.cc/xgzLkz
人生百味物資募集：https://reurl.cc/V3yNQA
If you want to know more context behind the homelessness, they also have innovative program Hidden Taipei to promote a deeper understanding of the homeless issue among the general public. Feel free to join them after the pandemic.
如果除了實際上的協助，你也想知道更多這群人背後的故事，歡迎在疫情之後參與芒草心社會溝通專案： 街遊 Hidden Taipei 的活動，透過導覽、講座、街頭遊戲等方式靠近這群人，理解無家背後的更深層的議題。
About Homeless Taiwan Association
In 2011, a group of seasonal social workers founded Homeless Taiwan Association, aiming to exchange best social work practices and theories about poverty and housing problems with organizations from other eastern asian countries such as Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong.
In 2014, it began to offer direct services to the homeless via a supportive network consists of shelter, social service, employment service, counseling and legal aid… etc. It also founded some innovative programs promoting public awareness of poverty and homeless issues. All programs are aiming to be the base of the two pillars - “Public Communication” and “Enable them to Self-sufficient”. Homeless Taiwan Association hopes to help build networks and enhance the understanding about poverty. Also empower the disadvantages we served not just be able to be self-sufficient but also willing to voice themselves.
關於社團法人台灣芒草心慈善協會
2011年由一群服務街友的第一線人員組成， 一開始以國際交流為主，和日本、香港、韓國等地的第一線服務人員分享經驗，互相學習。
2014年開始透過創新的專案，以更實務的角度協助無家及貧困者，秉持著「社會溝通」與「協助自立」兩大主軸，期望透過更多體驗與交流，幫助外界了解貧困者的生活樣態、培力我們的服務對象，除了足以自立之外，更能進一步為自己發聲。
