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Stanley Yen gives new hope to children's futures

15/5/2014

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By Hongji Shi, United Daily News
Taipei - 10 May 2014
Mr. Stanley C. Yen, Chairman of The Alliance Cultural Foundation, believes that education can resolve many of the underlying issues and create sustainable development in the remote East Coast of Taiwan. He hopes that through education, children living in remote areas of the country can seek for better opportunities in their future.


嚴長壽來了 孩子翻身機會多了

「有嚴總裁是台東人的幸運!」這是台東縣長黃健庭說過不止一次的話;花東近年來也因為嚴長壽的腳印所至,孩子多了一些翻身的機會。

二○○九年,嚴長壽動了一次大手術,手術後一個月發生八八風災,花東遍體鱗傷、觀光產業奄奄一息,嚴長壽拎著藥包就飛到了台東,望著眼前破碎大地,嚴長壽卻看到了新的希望。

這一年,他創辦公益平台基金會,整合人力和資源,為花東創造新的文化風景,也為東部孩子帶來不一樣的機會;他從教育著手,逐漸改變偏鄉孩子的未來,不只把後山以外的世界帶給孩子們看,也把東部孩子的成就帶給外面欣賞。

每年暑假,嚴長壽主導的公益平台基金會總免費舉辦夏令營梯隊,協助花東偏鄉貧困的孩子學英語,讓許多原本對英語畏如蛇蠍的孩子,從害怕接觸到歡喜應用,日常生活也能用上幾句。

他還邀請林懷民、朱宗慶等知名藝術家到花東教學,為偏鄉孩子募集上萬台相機。他不只播下種子也打造舞台,想盡辦法將這些孩子的攝影作品、藝術成果送到都市展覽。

去年嚴長壽號召一批退休教師到台東陪伴孩子讀書,北一女前校長陳富貴和中正高中前校長劉正鳴率先響應,各地的優秀退休教師也紛紛前來,劉正鳴還決定出任均一中小學校長,長住台東。「教育不是要造就很會讀書的人,而是要培育很有自信的人!」嚴長壽身兼均一中小學董事長時,曾對師生們強調他的理念;他說,只要有了自信,面對難關都能無往不利,但這是偏鄉孩子最缺乏的。

嚴長壽感慨,現有教育體制下,社經地位愈低的家庭小孩,愈是升學考試制度下的輸家,他要窮盡己力,打破現有教育造成的不公不義。

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