Compal x Fu Jen Catholic University Volunteers-Yuli Bookstore celebrates the harvest with you

2020 / 09/ 18

Starting from 2019, Compal Electronics has tied up with the "Kangaroo Project" from the Center of Care Services for Rural Area Education of Fu Jen Catholic University and conducted after-school tutoring centers at three communities Dayuan, Guanyin, and Yuli Bookstore. From September 18th to 19th, 15 Compal volunteers went to Yuli Bookstore at Dayu Community of Hualien. They took classes with 60 students from student volunteers of Fu Jen University, community volunteers ,and children from Yuli Bookstore to learn about the culture and wisdom of Ami harvest festival.


Father Liu Yi-Feng from the Catholic Church of Dayu also came to Yuli Bookstore to welcome everyone and prayed for them. Both adult and young friends were most happy to see the priest. In addition, Chao Chi-hong, a Compal volunteer, also expressed his thanks for his hometown is right in the Dayu community. Hence, he was so happy and feeling warm, for he could come to Yuli Bookstore and serve the community in this event. Most of all, he found it most heart-warming to have seen the priest and junior male and female school-mates.

In the morning, Ami elders had instructed the weaving of traditional woolen headgear and waist ornaments in person. As we watched the female elder briskly demonstrate several kinds of knitting methods with woolen threads, the volunteers' skills in finishing woolen threads were immediately seen with relative ups and downs in comparison! These elders would often re-comb the wrongly knitted yarn as for they simply can't stand any waste and collect the small pieces of uneven length and prepare for reuse. Respect and cherishing things are implemented and realized in every detail of life, most worth learning.


During the indoor program, Chen Ya-ling from Yuli Bookstore introduced Dayu and Amis's costume characteristics to everyone. In the afternoon, she and Nian Ci had also led all of the students to learn about traditional Ami dance. In the course, she explained that aboriginal dance is the dance of life, being transformed from the movements in livelihood. It is also full of gratitude to Mother Nature and creatures, expressing happiness and joy of gathering. The elderly and community volunteers had also assisted in leading and guiding so that the volunteers would fully experience the practice of dance suite with Ami's harvest festival. Everyone drilled earnestly as an adult and young friends held hand in hand, dancing along with the music and singing as dancing movements change from small circles to big ones. When circles change, everyone turns dizzily yet with many interests, and they look forward to the next harvest.


It is thus hoped that Compal volunteers and student volunteers of Fu Jen can have learned different cultures and wisdom together through the service and companionship, enhancing their social responsibility so that they are willing to give out more care. On the other hand, community residents of the tribe can, on the other hand, pay greater attention to the importance of passing on the tribal culture within children’s education. In such a way, the offspring can be grateful to the culture handed down by their ancestors, helping to render the spread of knowledge and education for good.