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New Immigrant Services

Purpose

Supporting new immigrants to improve their family functions; Empowering new immigrants and their family members to bring their potential into full play; Building a community support network for new immigrants so that they can have a stable life in Taiwan.

Service Targets

Kaohsiung New Immigrant Family Service Center:

New immigrants and their family members who actually live or register in 9 districts of Kaohsiung City, including Gushan District, Yancheng District, Sanmin District, Xinxing District, Qianjin District, Lingya District, Qianzhen District, Xiaogang District, and Qijin District. 

Service Features

  1. Assisting with the establishment of a family support network for new immigrants to improve their family functions.
  2. Empowering new immigrants and their family members to develop their own strength.
  3. Creating a space where new immigrants interact with each other and do group training together to improve their social inclusion and social participation.
  4. Discovering talents among new immigrants and investing in their cultural capital to improve the policy of multiculturalism.
  5. Integrating service resources for new immigrants, establishing a regional service network, advocating cultural diversity, and creating a friendly living environment for new immigrants. 
  6. Providing family counseling services for new residents in the form of case management and outreach services. 
  7. Delivering social welfare resources to new immigrants to empower their families. 

Gentle Companionship

Since her husband passed away, Yu has been shouldering the financial burden of the family alone. Leaving her hometown in Vietnam to marry her husband in Taiwan, Yu was unfamiliar with the social resources in Taiwan and therefore relied on her husband to deal with their daily lives. Although not doing well financially, the family lived happily together until the day when her husband passed away. 

Working in a sewing factory with a low income, Yu's financial conditions were aggravated by the impact of COVID-19, and could hardly make ends meet. Although trying hard to find a new job with assistance from the social workers, employment service center, and vocational training council, Yu was declined repeatedly due to her strong foreign accent. Never felt discouraged, Yu told the social workers that she had relevant experience working as a cleaning lady and was finally recruited as a cleaning lady for a school with a stable income and regular working schedule. 

Under the encouragement from social workers, Yu never gave up on sewing and opened a sewing workshop at home to earn some extra spending money after work on weekdays and all days on weekends. Whenever the social workers met her these days, she was always glowing with self-confidence.

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