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Agape Children's Home

Mustard Seed Youth Home

Pei-Hsin Home

Family-like Placement Institute

Introduction

Purpose

Since 1957, Agape Children's Home has been devoted to the placement services for children and youth from disadvantaged families.

Based on the family-style operating methods, we provide children with a living environment very similar to that of a general family.

Divided into four groups, we provide life counseling and parenting services to our children of 8 as a group so that our children are able to find a perfect balance in their daily life, schoolwork, and character-building.

Tutor and talent development volunteers were also recruited to provide our children with personal guidance on extracurricular activities after school such as piano, guitar, rollerblading, essay, etc.

By providing our children with a stable lifestyle, we hope that our children are able to develop a spirit for mutual support and independency, thereby achieving the goal of holistic education and appropriate development.

Service Targets

Children and youth aged 5 or 18 (who are not under custody).
Dysfunctional families without support from relatives:
- Both parents died; one parent died and the other is unable to support the family.
- Both parents are unable to support the family due to unemployment, illness, or other reasons.
- Both parents are unable to support the family due to imprisonment.
The child or youth is abandoned, abused, seriously neglected, or otherwise injured and is neither under custody nor under placement by the county or city government

Service Features

Life Care: caring for our children's daily lives such as basic food, clothing, shelter, and transportation, helping our children develop good living habits, and having them follow a stable life schedule.
Tutoring services: homework guidance, after-school tutoring service, and regular contact with parents and teachers.
Counseling services: one-on-one counseling services for our children, their siblings, and their families.
Medical & healthcare services: a physical examination per year and seeking medical attention for our children in need.
Talent exploration & development services: extracurricular courses, activities, class arrangements, day camps, service programs, sports events, etc.
Parent-child relationship: contacting parents through phone calls & emails, organizing parent-child meetings, making accompanying prison visits, and inviting parents to take part in major activities.
Self-care training: culinary class, occupational sharing, part-time experience, and independency training.
Discharge and follow-up service: interview, escort, and referral services.

Empowering Children to be Self-Reliant

With her mother suffering from mental illness and her father unable to care for her due to old age, Kiki was transferred to one foster family after another until she was placed into Agape Children's Home by the Department of Social Welfare.

Under the care of her life counselors, she acquired the skills for self-care and social interaction. By developing good living habits with her life experience in Agape Children's Home, she learned to accept difficulties that could not be changed after returning to her original family.

Out of concern that Kiki might not get along well with her father due to long-term negligence, the social workers were glad to find that Kiki would head for the cram school and wait for her father to pick her up every day after school. During the weekends, they would go biking and spend a good time together. According to her school teacher, Kiki is adapting well to her school life, building good interpersonal relationships, and winning the trust of her classmates.

It has always been the goal and expectation of Agape Children's Home to take care of children and empower them to become independent, so that there will be a chance for them to return to their original families or to live on their own.

Through Kiki's story, many caregivers are inspired to take care of our children no matter how difficult or challenging it may be along the way. Although we felt reluctant and worried when it was about time for our children to be discharged from the Home, we are actually very happy to see that they are able to arrange their own daily schedule after returning to their original families.

Donation & Sponsorship

Diversified Learning Project for Mustard Seed Youth Home

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Children in Mustard Seed Youth Home in Hualien are suffering from low self-affirmation and have no confidence in themselves because of their circumstances and family background. But we believe that each child has different abilities and advantages, so in addition to the coursework, we also hope children can have more exploration through the activities of talent learning, adventure experience, summer camp, etc. to generate positive interactions and learning experience, as a process to gain their confidence!

Goal：TWD 898,800

Community Care Homes for Vulnerable Children in Taiwan

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This project aims to establish a network of community-based residential care homes that provide a nurturing environment for vulnerable children and their families in Taiwan.

Goal：TWD 8,130,000

Empower Disadvantaged Children for Agape Children's Home

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22 children live in Agape Children's Home. They are mainly from dysfunctional families with issues like poverty, abuse, and abandonment, etc. They often suffer from trauma and low self-esteem. This project provides a safe environment to them and striving to equip them for future life; helping them to discover their own potentials and find out their own advantages via self-reliant training, character-building course, and mental health counseling.

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