Puren Youth Care Foundation
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Mission Statement
Purpose and Visions: As its name “Puren (普仁)” in Chinese, the purpose of this NPO/NGO is to achieve universal benevolence, whilst aiming for the visions of “Together, we can create a wonderful world of love, joy, and hope”. Missions: To promote social care for the youth and to lead the youth to care for society.
About This Cause
Historical Outline: Sharing the same value and outlook in life, a group of young college alumni belonging to the same student charity association initiated the “Chung-Yuan University Chihui (慈暉) Alumni Club” in 1982, aiming to pursue their missions in charity and social welfare. Later, to extend their service scope, a corporative association “Chinese Association of Relief and Encouragement (CARE)” was founded in 1994, which was the predecessor of “Puren Youth Care Foundation” established in 2000. Focusing on welfares of adolescents, particularly students from impoverished family, this non-religious, non-partisan NPO/NGO foundation operates without specific corporate supports and its primary funding relies on individual donations. By adopting a business management concept and relaying on advanced internet technology, the foundation runs under the most streamlined operation costs to transfer love and care among the community and adolescents interactively and efficiently. Moreover, aiming to construct a completely transparent and trustworthy public service platform, the foundation publishes donation details and financial reports on official website as well as in its quarterly journal “The Puren Family (普仁家園)” so that donors are able to monitor the whereabouts of every penny. These operations are deemed as the foundation’s responsibility, obligation, and earnest respect to the community and donors. In addition to offer impoverished young students with needed financial supports, we aim to provide them with companionship, guidance, and assorted educational resources. We hope to be able to accompany them through the most important part of their life, to broaden their breadth of visions, and to guide the development of their multiple intelligences, so that they can regain confidence and the courage to fulfill their dreams, to reserve social competitiveness, and to get away from poverty. Over the past few decades, we have held more than 200 thousands helpless little hands with love and care, in turn, these young hands have been cultivated to become big hands that capable of helping others under a long-term influence of excellent character. Together, we hope to achieve a wonderful society with "benevolent cycle". Executing Programs In view of the facts that high care-needing pupils are mostly from impoverished and/or instable families such as parents divorced, deceased, imprisonment, or intergenerational upbringing families, either with a large number of dependents, members suffering from serious injury/illness, instable income, debts, domestic violence, or from remote villages with insufficient resources, Puren foundation wish to play the role of "primary prevention" in the social safety net. The Puren Youth Care Foundation provides service to over 2,000 young pupils from disadvantaged families per year with an annual general budget close to 50 million New Taiwan Dollars (NTD). To resolve relevant issues at different levels and dimensions, we designed and conducted a "Hand-in-Hand Youth Care Project", hoping to guide pupils spanning from middle school to college through the most crucial decade of their life. The Hand-in-Hand Youth Care Project consists of several major programs, which are briefly summarized below: (1) The “Leading Hands” Program (2007-present): This is a collaborative program with administers of middle and high schools. Puren foundation provides monthly stipend (NTD$1,000 and 2,000 for middle and high school students, respectively) to pupils, in turn, students are requested to upload a monthly essay on web to share their progress and to perform public service (1 hour/month). In addition, to promote character and life education, the foundation also provides monthly outlines for character education and annual extra curriculum events (such as summer/winter camps, city visits, student-donor reunions etc.) for the pupils, hoping to enhance their interpersonal relationships and social activities. Through the foundation's network system, school administers help logging pupils' learning experience, bursary spending, and volunteer service records regularly, allowing the foundation and donors to follow their progress and growth instantly. Asides from regular regional school and institution visits, the foundation also links closely with enterprises and other NGO/NPOs to provide/referral needed resources for schools and pupils, for examples, sport shoes, food supplies, and second-hand notebooks etc. At present, the foundation collaborates with more than 300 (middle and high) schools throughout Taiwan, serving nearly 1,000 pupils from disadvantaged families each year. Over 500 individual donors took parts in this program, which runs with an annual budget close to 20 million NTD. (2) The “Guiding Angel” Program (2008-present): Based on the concept of venture philanthropy, and demands from schools for high care-needing pupils, the Guiding Angel Program provides financial supports for middle school extracurricular activities such as student clubs to provide adolescent with a stable environment for completion of their basic education. This program also aims to guide pupils' adaptive development, so that even students lack behind in study can build their self-confidence and motivation for diversified learning in alternative pathways to find their own platform of life as to reach the optimal goal of zero dropouts. As a result, it is anticipating that these pupils can enhance recognition of learning, to build self-awareness, and sense of intrinsic value, to explore their talent and abilities, and to foster group cooperation, coordination, and basic leadership skills. In additional to regular school visits, the foundation also solicit long-term supports from enterprises, institutions, or individual donor particularly those nearby to the school. At present, the foundation collaborates with more than 20 student clubs from different middle schools throughout the country, serving over 500 pupils each year with a total annual running budget over 6.5 million NTD. The foundation received numerous positive feedbacks from schools and parents each year, indicating that the pupils engaged in these extra curriculum activities show remarkable improvements in their social behavior, diligent attitude, self-identity, and even notable progress in their study. (3) The “Elite Incubation” Program (2012-present) This program aims to incubate high school and college students with special skills and talents. This is accomplished by providing these elite pupils with not only with financial aids (NTD$2,000 and 5,000 for high school and college students, respectively), but also with companionship, knowledge and leadership training, and visions. Each student in this program is assigned with a volunteer tutor that provide constant care and mentoring to the young pupil. The foundation provides diversified curriculum activities regularly, such as academic, technical, and career training courses, group discussions/seminars, life experiencing study tour, and self-recognition and self-transcend camps etc. hoping to enhance their fundamental knowledge and skills , to establish self-awareness, self-identity, and self-confidence, while also developing peer relationships and leadership skills. Furthermore, the foundation also link with social resources to offer pupils enrolled in this program with assorted domestic/oversea training courses and/or tour study opportunities to expand their international perspectives. Majority of adolescents from disadvantaged families who took parts in this program tend to be more outgoing, confident, willing to help others, and focusing more on their study. These young pupils are also encouraged to joint 普仁青年關懷基金會成立 20 年來，致力關懷被社福政策遺落的貧困學子，為他們提供必要的經濟扶助、陪伴引導與教育資源等協助。希望陪孩子走過人生最重要的一段路，培養家庭無法帶給他們的視野高廣度，並引導開發其多元智能，讓他們找回自信和圓夢的勇氣，儲備社會競爭力，進而脫貧。 普仁青年關懷基金會無財團丶企業、宗敎丶政治之色彩，財務完全公開透明。至今，我們已經用愛牽起了無數的無助小手 ( 累計服務人次已超過 20 萬人次 )，這些小手也在長期的品格薰陶下，成為了幫助他人的大手，普仁實踐了社會 「善循環」的理想。 普仁三大計畫 一、助學計畫 (1)提供獎助學金： 國中生1,000元/月 高中生2,000元/月 (2)生活教育輔導： 普仁除了舉辦地區訪視，也與學校老師合作定期關懷學生，學生每月需書寫品格學習心得和定期從事公益服務，老師們透過基金會的網路系統，登錄學生學習心得、獎助學金領用紀錄、志工時數紀錄及關懷學生紀錄，以供基金會與助學人瞭解受助學生成長概況。 (3)連結學生所需資源： 轉介社會善心資源，如：快樂腳贈鞋、急難捐助、食物銀行物資。 (4)舉辦體驗活動： 透過遊學台北/高雄、成長夏令營、國際交流等學習體驗，讓孩子看見生活圈外的世界。 二、引導計畫 以公益創投方式進行，由最了解學生問題與心理需求的校長及老師們，根據在地高關懷學生的現況，以學校社團為主軸來構思，輔以各種教案形成計畫，提交由本會審核補助。 由普仁與學校合作，成為偏鄉教育者強而有力的後盾，攜手引導學生適性發展，讓即使不愛唸書的孩子，也能以不同的方式建立自信，找到學習動機、適性發展的舞台與家一般的溫暖，並提高對學校的認同度，促使校園零中輟。 三、育成計畫 (1)生活補助：高中生2,000 元/ 月；大學生5,000 元/ 月。 (2)個別式培養：本會「社工」每月追蹤孩子近況，視個別需要提供學業、技藝及職能訓練等相關之諮詢與規劃協助，也為孩子媒合企業實習機會。 (3)一對一陪伴：每位孩子將安排一位「志工導師」關懷陪伴。每月至少關懷一次，提供孩子生活智慧、心情傾訴、職涯經歷等各方面的經驗分享。 (4)內外部多元課程培訓： A.依年級安排課程，內容為軟硬實力培養，從自我認識、同儕關係，到領導能力、多元就業能力、求職技巧等。 B.安排年度工作坊和分區聯誼，讓孩子能更深入結交不同的領域的同學，累積人際資本。 C.連結各種出國機會，拓展孩子的國際視野。 D.育成計畫年度課程 (5) 提供圓夢基金申請: 孩子若有技藝及職能學習上的費用需求，如海外實習、交換學生、參加國際比賽、證照考試、升學補習等，經審核通過者最高補助50 , 000 元/次，四年總額最高提供150,000 元之圓夢基金。