Guarding the Firefly and Cherishing Ta-Liao-Keng
The USR project ‘Guarding the Firebug and Cherishing Ta-Liao-Keng’ (GFCT) of LungHwa University of Science and Technology (LHU) is the extension of a previous project from 2017 to 2019 ‘Cultivating Taoyuan Kweishan Longshou Community to Develop Multiple Characteristics.’ Based on the caring community of local need, the LHU accounts for the mission of LHU social responsibility through the United Nation’s sustainable development goals (SDGs). The GFCT aims at life on land, sustainable cities, and community, and good health and well-being, selected three points of 17 SDGs.
We settle some themes by making use of the resources of LHU into GFCT to alleviate the pains from the community of local needs, mapping to the three SDGs mentioned. The resources here we mean are teachers, students, and facilities of all professional departments in LHU. Based on the themes, the GFCT proposes life on land as local consensus, sustainable cities and community as local culture and history, and good health and well-being as aged people gym respectively.
For conducting the practice of USR project, we regard interacting with the stakeholders in the field as a critical successful factor. Thus, we cooperate constantly with 13 exterior units including 4 junior high and primary schools, three village offices, local experts (i.e., firefly, organic coffee, and so on), multiple local businesses, and the District Hall of GueShan.
1. The local integration of Ta-Liao-Keng (TLK)
We integrate multiple units to work together that they are not only service takers but also givers as a volunteer in the USR project, as well as not only participators but also partners. Academic units include the LHU, Paul Hsu Senior High School, Hueilong Elementary and Junior High School, Longshou Elementary School, Sanduo Elementary School. Government units contain Huilong Village Office, Longhwa Village Office, Longshou Village Office, and Gueshan District Hall. Local business members are Sunshine Garden, Fairy Firefly House, and afterschool Joy English.
2. Guarding life on land as a local consensus
The target firefly, specifically Aquatica ficta, is aboriginal in TLK although it is ever with a limited amount but rare to see now. The habitat of restoration to rebirth firefly is provided with no fee by Mr. Jiaho Kuo who is the owner of Sunshine Garden which is an organic farm. The restorative knowledge of firefly is shared by Mr. Mingde Chiu who is an amateur player with undetermined expertise in firefly that he is also the owner of Fair Firefly House. Synthetically, the current project joins together with these local resources to rebirth the unseen firefly, that it is a paradigm of join adventure in public welfare.
3. The local features as the element to sustain cities and community
Specific leisure named ‘TLK Culture-and-Trait Activity for Promotion’ has held 10 times during the past 3 years. The leisure provides the outcomes of USR project GFCT, sharing, exhibiting, and educating to participants who are TLK residents or people interested in TLK. The outcomes comprise TLK history, the story of firefly restoration, Yangqin music playing, 3D wall painting for photo, brick industrial cluster, strolling in the TLK, and so on. Moreover, we hosted an event ‘TLK Music Festive’ which is never held in the district. Local students who are players, therefore, get the chance to show musical talent to their families and to TLK residents. We will support the second consecutive ‘TLK Music Festive’ in 2020 to cohere all people in TLK together.
4. Social gym for aged people to reach good health and well-being
During the last 2 years, we held 10 times a social gym for aged people in Longshou Village. We are going to extend services to the other two communities in Taoyuan City this year. We arrange three cars with distinct gym items to cruise three communities every month. We set up the goal of 2020 that is described as three-car, three-community, 2 rounds, and eighteen-event. Specifically, we are approaching the desired results.
University characteristic Startup Stage Project
Taoyuan City
LUNGHWA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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