AWARD YEAR
2023
CATEGORY
Play & Learning
GOALS
Quality Education, Reduced Inequality, Refugees and Migrants
KEYWORDS
language learning, Free Education , education community , Teaching tools
COUNTRY
Taiwan
DESIGNED BY
One-Forty
WEBSITE
https://one-forty.org/tw/project/bookandhost
Good Book Companion Learning Package
Learning tools for migrant workers in Taiwan
How does it work?
"Good Book Companion Learning Package" is an innovative education and learning program for migrant workers in Taiwan. It consist of a set of Chinese learning materials specially designed and developed for migrant workers. The textbook contains 35 life-themed units commonly used by migrant workers in Taiwan, such as taking a bus, grocery shopping, and seeing a doctor. With the workbooks, migrant workers can continue to practice Chinese listening, speaking, reading, writing, and conversations in their spare time, with life-like situational example sentences and dialogues.
Why is it needed?
By distributing 1,000 exclusive learning packages every year, migrant workers who have just arrived in Taiwan can get free physical textbooks and online Learning resources, no matter in any city, remote village, or outer island in Taiwan, migrant workers can learn Chinese outside work, understand Taiwanese culture, create better communication with employers, and experience the goodwill of the Taiwanese people.
How does it improve life?
So far, more than 2,000 migrant workers from 22 counties and cities in Taiwan have participated in the Good Book Companion Learning Program.