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  STUST Youth-Elderly Co-creation USR team, Fubon Life Insurance, and the Department of Social Affairs of Tainan City Government jointly held the "Double Ninth Day in Nostalgia of the Good Old Days: Youth-Elderly Children's Five Passes Garden Party" to practice social responsibility    2022/9/29    

 

Fubon Life and STUST continue to exert the spirit of CSRⅩUSR. This year, through the cooperation of industry, government and academia, the "Double Ninth Day in Nostalgia of the Good Old Days: Youth-Elderly Children's Five Passes Garden Party" activity was grandly held. On September 29, Mayor Wei-zhe Huang of Tainan City, , accompanied by Director Rong-zhi Chen of the Department of Social Affairs, delivered their love and respect especially for the elderly on the eve of Double Ninth Day Festival. They went to the Kunsun community in the South District to send love and care to 200 elders and celebrated the Double Ninth Festival together with the youth and the elderly.

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【STUST Youth-Elderly Co-creation USR team, Fubon Life Insurance, and the Department of Social Affairs jointly held a group photo of "Double Ninth Day in Nostalgia of the Good Old Days: Youth-Elderly Children's Five Passes Garden Party."】

Mayor Wei-zhe Huang of Tainan City dedicated his special thanks to STUST and Fubon Life Insurance for their long-term enthusiasm for public welfare, deeply cultivating social issues for the elderly, and promoting the active aging of the elderly.

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【Mayor Wei-zhe Huang of Tainan City was delivering a speech at the "Double Ninth Day in Nostalgia of the Good Old Days: Youth-Elderly Children's Five Passes Garden Party."】

As an extension of the "Warm Winter Meal Delivery and Happiness Continuation" plan last year, the activity was co-organized by the Youth-Elderly Co-creation USR team of STUST, the teachers and students of the Department of Senior Welfare and Services, the Department of Social Affairs of Tainan City Government, the Southern District Office, together with Fubon Life's charitable sponsorship, showing love and respect for the elderly and welcoming the Double Ninth Day. In addition to 160 disadvantaged elders living alone and unable to go out, the meal delivery service served a total of 360 elders in the community, so that love could go deeper into every corner of the community. This year, thanks to participation of Fubon Life, the activity showed a very large social influence. Taiwan Senior Care and Education Association, Shingyi Medical Supplies, Kindness Heart Care Co., Ltd., Yicheng Co., Ltd., Haocheng Technology Co., Ltd., and many other local partners and kind-hearted people donated a variety of materials and services, so that the elders in remote villages could enjoy warm materials and nostalgic delicacies.

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【Vice President Chi-liang Chu of STUST was delivering a speech at the "Double Ninth Day in Nostalgia of the Good Old Days: Youth-Elderly Children's Five Passes Garden Party."】

The activity proceeded as a combination of a meal delivery service and a garden party in nostalgic of the good old days in Childhood. First, Tainan Mayor Wei-zhe Huang led the honorable guests to distribute the Warm Heart Pack 2.0, which contains environmentally friendly lunch boxes, thermos cups, and cereal packets that can be drunk any time on weekdays. The USR team of STUST, participating students of STUST, volunteers, the elderly, and co-sponsors set up booths to offer food and game play. They invited community elders to go out together to visit the nostalgic food booth reminiscent of the happiness of childhood concerning eating, and join the children’s game play together to pass five levels of the game. As the elders walked through the time passage during the activity, they came to enjoy the taste of eating as a child and the fun of being old children. The cycle of love and kindness could make the elders feel the warm greetings and caring feelings of the Youth-Elderly Co-creation USR team. It is hoped that through the tripartite cooperation between industry, government, and academia that the social responsibility of universities and corporations could be implemented, and the happiness, warmth, care and well-being for the elderly will be well conveyed. It also promoted the health and well-being of the elderly in the community, achieving the age-friendliness of "respect for the elderly" and the sustainable development goal of the SDGs—"good health and well-being".

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【Feng-rong Guo, Director of Tainan Business District, Fubon Life Insurance, was delivering a speech at the "Double Ninth Day in Nostalgia of the Good Old Days: Youth-Elderly Children's Five Passes Garden Party."】

Feng-rong Guo, Director of Tainan Business District, Fubon Life Insurance, said that in response to our aging society, enterprises must practice corporate social responsibility and exert influence. Elderly care services and activation of the elderly have always been one of Fubon Life’s priorities in social welfare. This Double Ninth Day activity for the elderly had achieved the effect of caring and fun.

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【Mayor Wei-zhe Huang of Tainan City (4th from right) and Director Rong-zhi Chen (4th from left) of the Department of Social Affairs presented certificates of appreciation to Director Feng-rong Guo (1st from left) of Tainan Business District of Fubon Life Insurance, Vice President Chi-liang Chu of STUST (2nd from left), CEO Cheng-zhi Huang of Kindness Heart Care Co., Ltd. (3rd from left), Manager Yi-jie Yan, of Shingyi Medical Products Co., Ltd. (3rd from right), Chairman Jia-ming Chang of Taiwan Senior Care and Education Association (2nd from right), Manager Zheng-hong Chen of Haocheng Technology Co., Ltd. (1st from right).】

Mei-zhu Chen, Chair of the Department of Senior Welfare and Services at STUST and Director of the Youth-Elderly Co-creation Program, said that with the increasing life expectancy of modern people, the quality of life is the primary goal. The main purpose is to promote senior living, cultivate senior welfare service professionals, activate local growth momentum, promote regional innovation, and implement the university's social responsibility.

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【"Double Ninth Day in Nostalgia of the Good Old Days: Youth-Elderly Children's Five Passes Garden Party" - 1】

Chi-liang Chu, Vice President of STUST and Director of the University's Social Responsibility Promotion Center, said that the USR team of STUST has long been accompanying and caring for the elders in the community with practical actions, with great concern about social issues of the elderly, attaching importance to local connection and talent cultivation as its own responsibility. Through this activity of "Double Ninth Day in Nostalgia of the Good Old Days: Youth-Elderly Children's Five Passes Garden Party," STUST and all the sponsors have made everyone see the power of cooperation between industry, government, and academia. We have indeed practiced the care of the disadvantaged elderly and developed a friendly society for the elderly with the spirit of the common good.

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【"Double Ninth Day in Nostalgia of the Good Old Days: Youth-Elderly Children's Five Passes Garden Party"-2】

 
 

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