A wholesome education that combines traditional teaching and modern needs 爱一家亲——结合传统教育和现代需求的全人教育

The bilingual article is originally published as “Their Healthy Food Helps Educate Taiwan’s Needy Children” on Asia for Good in 2016

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Taipei-based Ai Yi Jia Qin is one of the country’s most well-loved social enterprises. Zhang Xintian meets the founders.

Ai Yi Jia Qin founders Yu Su-hua and Ms Chen Jui-chu set up a community-based school rooted in Chinese classic learning in 1998. Over the years, the school started a social enterprise, a food production business, as well as a café whose profits go towards sustaining the education centre known as Ai Yi Jia Qin (“Love Brings Families Together”).   Continue reading