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Mustard Seed Youth Home

Pei-Hsin Home

Family-like Placement Institute

Agape Children's Home

Introduction

Purpose

In 1960, The Mustard Seed Mission established Mustard Seed Youth Home in Taipei to provide homeless juvenile resettlement and vocational training services.

Seeing unpolished marble while passing through Hualian, Mrs. Lillian R. Dickson realized that children who have no chance of education, like the marbles in Hualien, need love and care.

Hence, she moved Mustard Seed Youth Home to Hualien City in 1988 to provide a caring and warm home for teenagers in the remote areas of Hualien who suffered family accidents and dysfunctional families.

Service Targets

Adolescents aged 12 to 18 (at the time of placement).
Placement entrusted by social & political units or local courts.
Come from a dysfunctional family without anyone to support them:

Both parents died, or one party died and the other party was unable to support them;
Parents are unable to support them due to unemployment, illness, or other reasons.
Parents are unable to support them due to imprisonment.

Service Features

Daily life counseling
Education and career counseling
Psychological counseling and behavioral therapy
Healthcare and gender education
Talent development and training
Interest and career exploration
Family relationship
Self-care training
Employability training program and job opportunities
Returning to the original family or living on their own

Home is Where the Family Gathers

Like most children who came to Mustard Seed Youth Home, Yeh came from a poor family. After his mother left him due to huge debts, Yeh was left alone, dropped out of school, and wandered on the street aimlessly. Under the support of the Department of Social Welfare, Yeh was placed into Mustard Seed Youth Home.

As the eldest brother, Yeh was worried about his younger brother and sister who were still studying at school. He hoped that he could earn enough to provide his younger siblings with a stable life without taking into account that he was still a junior high school student.

With a strong sense of responsibility, Yeh often takes care of his younger siblings in the absence of his parents. After being placed into Mustard Seed Youth Home, he and his younger brother were provided with a stable life and ranked top of the class in their academic performance.

Though dropped out in the first and second years of junior high school, Yeh was admitted to a public vocational high school through the multiple intelligence tutoring program provided by the Mustard Seed Youth Home.

Yeh was grateful that he was able to confirm his target through career exploration when he was at a loss. He was inspired to prepare for the school admission test and was successfully admitted into the Department of Electronics of a vocational high school.

Aspiring to become an engineer, Yeh hoped that he could improve the family's standard of living with a better salary, take care of his younger siblings, and even reunite with his mother in the future. According to Yeh, the family reunion is his greatest hope and with so many people helping him, he's confident that he could return home soon.

Every teenager comes to Mustard Seed Youth Home with a long story. We are honored to be there for them and be a part of their lives when they are most in need. Here at Mustard Seed Youth Home, we take care of the children who were hurt by their original families or in their upbringings through several ways by keeping them company, taking care of their health, correcting their deviant behaviors, and bringing their potential into full play.

By taking on a role as their friends, we help and guide them to regain their self-confidence so that they can spread their wings and soar in the sky. Unwilling to give up any chance of saving a child, we look forward to your generous donation and assistance so that your love can be transformed into care and education that motivates the children to become a pillar of society and a tree that provides shelter for others.

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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