The Taipei City Social Bureau has set up a Guangci cultural relics showroom and a volunteer service promotion center on the 7th floor of the Guangci Weifu Building.

(Photo by reporter Cai Sipei)

[Reporter Cai Sipei/Taipei Report] With the arrival of an aging society, the demand for domestic volunteers has also increased greatly. The Taipei Municipal Bureau of Social Affairs has established a Taipei City Volunteer Service Promotion Center in Guangci Boai Park.

In addition to providing volunteer training, consultation and other services, the center also has a showroom of Kwong Chi cultural relics, displaying historical memory relics and old photos of Kwong Chi Boai Institute, allowing citizens to get to know Kwong Chi.

The Taipei City Government continues to build a variety of social welfare facilities to create a local social welfare space. It has built about 6.5 hectares of Guangci Boai Park, with about 10,000 square meters of social welfare facilities.

On the 7th floor of the Guangci Weifu Building, there is also a Guangci Cultural Relics Showroom and a Volunteer Service Promotion Center, and is committed to creating the largest "volunteer service training base" in Taiwan.

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Yao Shuwen, Director of the Social Affairs Bureau, said that the number of volunteers in Taipei City last year exceeded 90,000, an increase of 15,000 compared with the previous year. Taipei City entered an aging society last year, but many retired elders "retired and never stopped" and turned to volunteering , as many as 27% of the volunteers in Beishi are older than 65 years old.

Yao said that the types of volunteers are quite diverse, and the public can participate according to their own interests. Volunteering is actually another beginning of learning, and it can also delay aging.

Yao Shuwen said that the Taipei City Volunteer Service Promotion Center will launch courses such as the value of volunteer service and pre-employment training. Taipei City is also constantly innovating on volunteer services. There are even e-sports volunteers. Let different generations get to know each other.

The Guangci Cultural Relics Showroom is set against the background of the Guangci Bo'ai Institute, displaying gifts from friends at home and abroad and old photo albums, etc., allowing citizens to walk into the time tunnel from different angles and feel that the Guangci Bo'ai Institute has brought countless people and love. Family warmth and love.

The Guangci Cultural Relics Exhibition Room displays the historical memory relics and old photos of the Guangci Boai Institute.

(Photo by reporter Cai Sipei)

The Guangci cultural relics showroom also records Guangci's short stories through old photos.

(Photo by reporter Cai Sipei)

Yao Shuwen (third from left), director of the Social Affairs Bureau of Taipei City, said that volunteering is actually another beginning of learning, and it can also delay aging and encourage people to participate in volunteer services.

(Photo by reporter Cai Sipei)