Charities, social welfare, and volunteering

[Fortigurn]

Volunteering

* Please visit the Forumosa volunteer forum regularly
* Taipei International Volunteer Networking Party (Chinese language website)
* Taizhong Volunteer Network
* AIESEC (international student volunteer association)

Social welfare

* Zhong Yi Social Welfare Foundation
* Genesis Social Welfare Foundation
* Eden Social Welfare Foundation
* Child Welfare League Foundation
* Sunshine Social Welfare Foundation
* Government site with an overview of social welfare issues & organizations (updated 5/23/2011)

Charities & Aid

* Animals Taiwan
* Taiwan International Workers Association (Chinese language website)
* NWL Foundation for the Hearing Impaired
* The Big Issue Taiwan (Chinese language website)
* Taiwan SPCA (bilingual website)

Locations where sellers of The Big Issue are found regularly:

* Zhongshan Junior High MRT Station (brown/Muzha line)
* Wanfang Hospital MRT Station (brown/Muzha line)
* Zhongxiao Fuxing MRT Station (blue/Nangang line, brown/Muzha line intersection)
* Shi-Da University (Heping East Road, Section 1, #162)

[ThreadKiller]

Fortigurn,

I'm going to forgo suggesting that charity is not only for the religion and spirituality forum (a point I am sure you would agree with) by asking you to please add Taiwan SPCA to the list. They are doing some good and necessary work. I know some of the people involved and have been impressed with how much they have accomplished in the short period of time since their establishment.

http://www.spca.org.tw/

Otherwise, a nice thread.

[Mucha Man]

Yes, great thread. Thanks for putting this all together.

[Fortigurn]

Fortigurn,

I'm going to forgo suggesting that charity is not only for the religion and spirituality forum (a point I am sure you would agree with) by asking you to please add Taiwan SPCA to the list. They are doing some good and necessary work. I know some of the people involved and have been impressed with how much they have accomplished in the short period of time since their establishment.

http://www.spca.org.tw/

Otherwise, a nice thread.

Thanks for that, do feel free to add others. I agree of course that charity is not only for the religion and spirituality forum, and there's already a separate volunteer forum. However, it is a subject of particular interest to many here, so I decided to collect a few links and put them here. I wouldn't mind seeing this thread in every forum, but some people may consider that overkill.

[Zla'od]

Oh, I think we can overlook the multiple-thread issue, since it's for charity!