After last year’s successful collaboration with Xinzhuang Elementary School, SHANTU intensified the relationship this year by educating Xinzhuang Elementary School students on Global Health issues. After COVID-19 cases started to rise in Taiwan, we adapted the course to a virtual format and continued holding thematic English UN SDGs courses for students. Over 5 sessions, we…
Currently, a SHANTU team is on their way to Malawi for a six-week exchange project. The team of students and staff will work together with our local partner Luke International on WASH projects in the Mzuzu area. The focus of this project is to reinforce collaboration between local students and SHANTU students, while working on…
In this meeting, we got to know each other and discussed the progress of the project this year. A group of Shantu members will go to Malawi this summer to gain more local knowledge on the project implementation and exchange resources and knowledge with team members in Malawi. Moreover, SHANTU is successfully collaborating with Xinzhuang Elementary School…
After the hard work from our COVID-19 emergency response team, a shipment with children’s facemasks (among other items), was shipped to Malawi in collaboration with our partners Pingtung Christian Hospital and Luke international (Malawi). We’re glad to announce that the shipment just arrived safely at our local partners, and just before Christmas! We hope that…
On December 23, the WASH team went on a school visit for the last time this year, to learn more about objectives and aims for school gardens in Taiwan. Guo-Tai Elementary school is located in new Taipei city and believes that school gardens can play an important role in the education of children. Seasonal vegetables…
SHANTU (Sustainable Healthy actions by NTU) would like to invite you to participate in today’s online symposium. The symposium, titled “Bridging the COVID-19 Experience: a Taiwan-Malawi symposium” will be held online from 15-17 December and due to the time difference sessions, are planned between 16.00-20.30 TPE time. For the full program and exact session times, please find the latest program at https://shantu.org/program/. The symposium is…
Global health projects in general, need to be context aware and adapted to local circumstances. Since our team is developing a tool to help schools with the implementation of school gardens in different settings throughout different phases of the process, it is important to validate the tool in (completely different settings). Therefore, on December 6th our…
On Wednesday November 24th students from SHANTU’s COVID-19 response team came together to prepare a shipment for our local partners in Malawi. Over the course of this year the students have been helping out with supporting Malawian health officials regarding data visualization and accessibility, and during their online meetings it became evident that more help…
After multiple successful visits to schools with a variety of gardens, innovative ideas and best practices were presented. We are very thankful to those schools for sharing their knowledge, objectives and future goals for their school gardens. The SHANTU WASH team is currently starting with visits to schools without gardens (or schools with non-maintained gardens)…
On September 29th, the team visited Ruiping elementary school (新北市林口區瑞平國民小學) in New Taipei city, to observe the school gardens. It is a small school located next to the seashore. Although it is a small school, they make good use of the school grounds; a greenhouse on the compound is used for the production of vegetables…
