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Why Community Service? | Suni Yen | TEDxDominicanIntlSchool


my name is suni three years ago I work
in elite international service company I
have so many chance can recruit
volunteers from Taiwan and go into
service in the countryside so today I
want to share about the community
service every time I go to the mainland
China you nun the mountainside my friend
were asked me the same question is hey
suni you’re going to remain in China and
you have the ability to recruit
volunteers why you didn’t stay in Taiwan
here also have so many people need our
help why are you going to another place
but I didn’t know how to answer this
question but I know in Yunnan they were
surprised I pretty like in layer I feel
like I can culminate in with the land
and I am more easily to talking with the
local people
I can share I can eat I can I love to
eat the food which is printing by the
local people I can see the food I eat
and I can enjoy with flow nature so I
believe you now mr. price choosing me
that mean to let my a part of my my
heart to English in on this land there’s
a one time I talking with a villager
this is the first time coming to you
none I have a question to land is your
life in here in a mountainside is very
wonderful but did you meet some problem
or some situation that you want to
change wonderful villager he is a father
he told me hi suni this is one thing I
want to change which is you know I just
only printing the potato and the end of
this year I semolina potato to a market
but the money I earned I cannot let my
kids after junior high school
thank you study can go into the school I
have I doesn’t have this ability to let
my kids to go into a school to keep
study so it is recovering in the village
we cannot earn enough money to let our
kids to have the education
and I know if our kids have let
education maybe he can bring over she
can bring the new skill or the knowledge
which is a local need and then come back
to developing our community but if he
didn’t have the education the true is
the Yankees in it but just only fifty or
sixty years ago let go into account look
at the city and in to become labor and
the two years we just only come back for
one time I didn’t like like want our
kids doing this way so if you have any
suggestion can let our kids have that
education please let’s walk together so
I told this village villager I say I may
be like we can do this I have a plan
which is call a cow Bank if I donate one
cow to you and also Rikuo volunteers
from Taiwan and to walking with you to
building a house house after two years
look how will have the baby the baby you
sail into the market and the money that
you earn is for your kids school free so
it’s a very sustainable idea because if
we just only donate one times the school
fee if next time we didn’t humming or we
cannot oscillate money your kids cannot
go into the school sustainable so like
how pain is it sounds like a very great
job great port project so all the
village releasing are we can we can join
with local bank project so I think ah
okay after two months and our group
the Taiwanese volunteers almost raw 20
percent we were coming here again and
let’s building a cow house together so
today I want to share about Srila three
story about we building a house house
together with la villager the first one
that I remember is beautiful beautiful
him he is the chief of the villager
most of Tanner we call his name sighs
oww sighs oww when a time he sees so
many Taiwanese volunteers in front of
him and he tell me assess ik release it
as a Sunni the Taiwanese straight
looking so so friendly but before I
watching a TV show they are our enemy so
I said wow they look so friendly but I
also have a once they want to tell you
is I didn’t want the volunteers are
coming to help me to building a cow
house i they’re already coming and they
are wish there they can they can build a
cow house together with you why you say
no sides always talk me yeah because I
don’t hear now I realize I didn’t have
nos I didn’t have anything I can’t
feedback I can return to land eyeing a
poor people I didn’t have money like how
so far away living in here and I didn’t
have nothing can return to you
so I need to say sorry with your help
but I told you it sighs ow I said don’t
worry because when the time we drew
cooler volunteers we tell them you’re
working in an office or you just only
student all of us we didn’t have ability
to building a cow house so when it when
a time we go into the mountainside we
need to learn from the local who is Rick
house cow owner or who is the villager
we need to acts King or her let’s ring
or her to become our teacher so China is
thinking about yeah yeah it is the thing
I can do I think no you can do more you
know in a mountainside here is two
thousand and seven hundred meters so how
can the normal people like us we’re
leaving there to eat drinking the
natural water using the outside toilet
or yeah they have so many life skill
that we need to learn from a local so
you are a Mentos in the mountain you
need to teach them how to building like
how house or how to living here so ties
all the time he’s smile he said yes
release this thing I can do
it’s the fever I can do for the
volunteers so let’s walk the first name
we walk the second day we walk the third
day actually the cow-house we just only
use in three days that we can build
finish the three day the third day is
morning I wake up a bit earlier I want
to see her son raise the time I walk and
I see in our house there’s a person
standing in front and I walk closer I
know little sides out I say hey why you
while staying here and what’s the
feeling that you are now so he’s Tommy a
Sunni three days is a very short line
I’ve ever enjoyed working with you now
here just only you and me I want to tell
you one more story before 20 years ago
I’m the teacher in a village I teach the
kids our neighbor the knowledge about
how to printing a potato and our
traditionally language but now the
school is moving to the city I’m not a
teacher anymore but before the two days
I find I I become a teacher and the
thing I teach you teacher a Taiwanese
volunteers which is who and I I find you
have so many question to us like where
we come from and how can we living in
the mountain how can we clean the water
and how can we fit our animals
I feel like I’m yeah I like that the
feeling is you like me like a teacher
and this cow house where we built it’s
so wonderful it is so wonderful I can
see any bridge and
I can remember let’s who did this your
volunteer doing a great job I have every
thanks for that you’re coming the second
story that I want to share is one a time
we’re building the cow house we were
inviting more of neighbor or the kids
they’ve come to join she is the kids
living village her name is Chelsea the
first thing I see child yeah I also want
to invite she’s coming to our to join
our walk even just only carrying a stone
or sound not heavy walk but I want to
let you out so you can join with us but
it’s not the first one at I our
volunteer leave the village the child
yet
just only throwing flour try to attack
with us no go so far away so I feel oh
yeah a little maybe yeah this thing we
can do so when I said second time son
coming I didn’t get any wonder that said
she also can join with our walk but my
friend once again I should take his
picture so you see the smile is quite
sweet let’s think Chelsea I didn’t know
in this moment but in the future she won
now is the cow-house they were building
in their time after two years the cow I
have the baby
her father was selling the cow to the
market saving her school fee so there’s
one day after she skip studying the high
school in the university actually she’s
already showing his cow bank foundation
he is the one that when a time the cow
house building she already showing it
and she have learned the right education
and to join it I believe even she was
young but she was going up in this way
and
when she going up to going to less
social and she start to walk she also
wanted helping me another have this
chance to have the education right so
contains chalghi I pretty sang thanks
for in grateful that she joined our work
in this moment
to build a future in its time most of
time that we were going to learn
mountainside in the airport
this is our first good right in the
chain dry augers they will have less
second third group in the October live
is our final group coming to this
mountain because in next year we are
going to Lee another mountainside to
build in a cow’s house his name is John
hi certain hi is joined to our he were
joined how every time every time that we
building a cow house that he were
joining with us this is a one time I our
group let’s we were going to have a
group sharing when a time we have a
group sharing Shanghai is passing one of
light icing paper to me the testing
paper I looking very carefully because
at night is pretty dark so I I need to
very close and in to see very carefully
about was realizing papers writing about
is one one things make me feel feel
wonderful is some high his sound I
remember before four months ago look
first I come into his how his home to
building like how house his kids the
math great is not very good so nice to
me ah yeah he’s worried about even that
we’re building a cow house to saving the
money to to his kids but maybe his great
is not enough to apply for a better high
school but after four months I still
test paper I know
watson hi it’s wonderful that you’ve
shown me this paper because your kids
the math grade is 98 points so I see
what is wonderful so it’s a nice to me
yeah after you were coming my my kids is
it’s totally changed because he’s more
thinking about the future now he also
tell me that he have a Trias in the
future after he studied back from the
university he want to be a teacher in
the village and so father I feel it’s a
stupid idea
because you cannot earn the money from
to be a teacher in a village but I am so
proud of my son he have restring and you
want to come back home as a father I
want to create a very good environment
for my kids can have an education and
when the time he going up he come back
he feel here is his home the last thing
is every diner back to Taiwan I will
miss English high to be a volunteer
kirisame in Yunnan every time I looking
a paper looking at photo let’s we’re
taking the Yunnan and every every one of
the paper I’m smiling i smiling I don’t
know why but in Yunnan I look like very
happiness finally that I know the reason
is in the time we’re doing the
volunteerism and doing the community
walk very very easily to counter with Li
another person in Taipei if I take
Lemaitre assistant it’s not possible
like talking with the person sitting
around me but in Yunnan I am so
open-minded I can exert village earth no
matter is its own hi Xiao Jia I didn’t
explain or her so many questionnaire I
want to know and I can make friend and
walking together with then the another
thing is
I didn’t afraid I will fare if flip
break I do very terrible the village
account you told me you did not right
yeah I say okay you teach me how can I
become better and then we walk together
I didn’t a fair fair so I remember the
time in Yunnan I always feel smile and I
feel happiness so ladies the reason I
want to go back there again and again
and again there is a one time I asking
the villagers say I already coming here
for three years already building certain
cow housing here I feel an a part of
Yunnan so it’s like possible I living
here the villager you Dargo he told me
suni
I am very quick grateful that he was
thinking about that but you are not
belong to here you’re not living here
here’s a mountainside is 2700 meters
every time come here you can’t only
spend a short time it’s not possible for
normal people like you to still spend 1
years all all your turns in here because
where you come from you need to come
back there I understand in your person
you always smell you have a little
ability can connect each other’s like
how a villager of my neighbor feel
comfortable let’s love and ears by
yourself they can always try to learn
something from from the local I know you
have an ability and why you come here is
you need to learn how to do a community
walk you need to know where is your
hometown
Sooni dripping a better yourself to
dripping a better life to you’re going
up with a better person when a tie you
getting off on a mountain Sooni you need
to back your home so this is revealed
you tell me
why community service for me why I need
to go so far away go to you none
actually reason is quite simple because
it is the way I back home now I realize
all the things happening in Yunnan all
the things I learned from the local is
teach me how can I learn found the price
my motherland’s Taiwan so it’s not hot
actually is not hot community service is
a way to let us come back how home stuff
on the time you doctor asked me hey suni
you cannot live in here anymore you need
to pack your home I started using my
weekend to apply with the volunteers in
like it Formosa if you have friends or
you want to note that Taipei the walking
tour they I can guide you to let you to
understand in Taipei our history our
culture our building our local people
living style so I realized the
committee’s community service that is
the way let me feel feel to connecting
with Lenny another person to learn from
the local to understand how the local
like Beauty they are now I spend most of
my time to walking in Taiwan in travel
in Taiwan to understanding about how we
special my name is Sunni and how a nice
and I want to build my own community in
Taiwan this my speaking thank you so
much
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