By Dr. Joseph Anthony Narciso Z. Tiangco | Co-founder/Chairman of the Board of Directors
It is more fun to be part of the Taiwan Love and Hope International Charity!
True to our goal of building a community among the low-income Taiwanese families with children with neurodevelopmental conditions, we continue to offer regular self-development, stress management, and parenting classes for free. We also have our weekly Saturday meals together. The classes we provide would normally be costly and beyond the means of all the families we serve. The vision is to equip and empower the parents so that they can become more efficient in nurturing a loving and understanding relationship with their children.
We recently opened yoga classes for the mothers and caregivers who take care of children with more severe neurodevelopmental conditions. Most of them need to put up with the mood swings and tantrums of their children, so it has become important to teach them how to take care of themselves and practice mindfulness.
Last July 21–22, everyone also got all fired up when we organized a 2-day trip to Taipei. It was a 5-hour bus ride from Kaohsiung, but it was well worth it since the families enjoyed the Taipei Zoo and other scenic places we visited. It was challenging to put together children with ADHD, autism, cerebral palsy, and other special needs on a bus for such a long trip, but doing it together was really heartwarming as the parents and staff supported each other in helping the children with the behavioral and emotional challenges they experienced during the trip. Despite the challenges, all the children came through and enjoyed watching the penguins, tigers, reptiles, and other animals at the Taipei Zoo.
We hope to organize more outdoor activities to further socialize the children and families under our care, since many of them avoid public places because of how challenging it can be when their children have tantrums.
We realized that by working as a community, it reinforces parenting behaviors discussed in the classes offered by the charity and socializes everyone to be more supportive of each other.
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