The world has kissed my soul with its pain asking for its return in songs. Tiny grass, your steps are small, but you possess the earth under your tread.-Tagore
Shen Hsin-Ling grew up in Yunlin County since her childhood, and her ancestors are all tenant-farmers from every generation, she had experienced how the low price of fruit kept farmers in poverty, therefore she established this fruit selling website for the farmers, and it was a great success that had helped dozens of farmers selling more than 130 kilograms fruit and making local teaching materials, creating a precedent for e-Agriculture.
Anan Free Education Website─Compile more than 100 thousand of multivariate learning materials for junior high and elementary school students, enrich digital media videos data pool in subjects like Chinese, English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Humanities, History and Geography, and more than 30 thousands e-testing papers, establishing this famous platform in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan had helped more than 6 million students in their studying, and the pages are viewed more than 130 million times on the internet.
Local Taiwan Portraits ─Shen Hsin-Ling has been visited all over the places in Taiwan, All together accumulated 200 thousand kilometers distance from the top of the mountains to the sea coasts. (Equal to traveling around the island 168 times.), shooting the “Taiwanese grassroots portrait”. She has recorded almost 300 thousand photos and field research scripts in around 100 thousand words. Her works have been exhibited in Duke University, America; Google headquarters in Silicon Valley, California; 2008 Olympics, Beijing; Indian School of Design, Japan JPCA SHOW, Macau HKUST and Taipei Arena, the website page was viewed over 5.6 million times.
Sunshine Generation Free Classroom─Free English Teaching Free tutoring after school was not popular in earlier times, the tuition of summer time cram school had become so many parents’ burden, summer school therefore generated and had taught 75 students whose families couldn’t afford the tuition of cram school, and it had been documented into books and its impact was nationwide, opened up a new page for free teaching custom in Taiwan.
The Orange Campaign ─Speak for orange farmers and impel the government to found an emergency measure for agricultural products: “95% mechanism.” The website was established when the price of one orange was lower than 1 dollar, and launched “The Orange Campaign” for the farmers, impelled the government to found an mechanism that the products would be directly purchased when the price was lower than 95% of its costs, and the price in the market was stabilized 3 times than original situation, this mechanism was then applied to unmarketable cabbages, bananas and persimmons to protect farmers’ rights and interests.
Formosa Creation and Art Exhibition of Teenagers─ This exhibition had been held twice and had founded 112 teenagers for their creation and in Cultural Center Exhibition Hall, building up confidence of so many teenagers who were from financially disadvantaged families. And suggested the government to found “Teenagers’ creation month” and to establish international creation platform, promoting creation in Taiwan could be seen worldwide.
Love of Hometown ─E-dictionary Donation In some countryside or mountain area where kids can not have adequate leaning resources, to change this, real human voice E-dictionary is a start, 1,600 or so E-dictionaries have been donated to remote areas to shorten the gap of information between city and countryside.
A Brand New World─Free glasses for the needy Taiwan, as a kingdom of myopia, there are so many kids who come from families which can’t afford the glasses therefore learning gap between city and countryside is generated, free glasses, optometry and adjustment for kids raised by grandparents, single parents or foreign parents, suggest government to subsidy those kids who need glasses but cannot afford, many people respond to this proposal.
Learning Website for Foreign wives in Taiwan ─ To establish website platform, offering new immigrants free resources such as learning videos, license examination simulation on line, living conditions and legal counsel, helping hundreds of thousands of new immigrants and new naturalized people.
Declaration of Cambodia’s Education ─Initiate E-world leadership, hand-in-hand program and declaration of education, hoping to integrate humanitarian aids from all over the world, starting from education, medication and basic construction, helping children in Cambodia to accept education and hopefully one day no longer suffer from poverty.
Seniors’ Stories in Taiwan─Interviewing Hundreds of Centenarians Interviewing hundreds of centenarians who was born in 10/ 20 ROC calendar, to collect their wishes and stories and write into their biographies, to make smiling Taiwan map and plan on publishing in the future, making E-books and teaching materials, to pass the vitalities in Taiwan on through generations.
Naluwan Ancestral Spirits─ Record of Taiwan Aboriginals Within 12 years, visiting 14 tribes in Taiwan for more than 100 times, which includes Tao’s Flying Fish Festival in Lanyu, Bunun’s Ear Festival in Taitung, Atayal’s Harvest Festival in Ilan, Paiwan’s Harvest Festival in Pingtung, Amis’s Sea Festival in Hualien, Siraya’s Dynasty Night Festival, Atayal’s Harvest Festival in Miaoli and Tsou’s War Festival in Alishan, to record more than 10 thousands of photographs and dictated histories, and make digital learning materials to pass the aboriginal cultures on though generations.
Taiwanese grassroots portrait ─Shen Hsin-Ling has been visited all over the places in Taiwan, All together accumulated 200 thousand kilometers distance from the top of the mountains to the sea coasts. (Equal to traveling around the island 168 times.), shooting the “Taiwanese grassroots portrait”. She has recorded almost 300 thousand photos and field research scripts in around 100 thousand words. Her works have been exhibited in Duke University, America; Google headquarters in Silicon Valley, California; 2008 Olympics, Beijing; Indian School of Design, Japan JPCA SHOW, Macau HKUST and Taipei Arena, the website page was viewed over 2.8 million times.
Taiwanese grassroots portrait ─Shen Hsin-Ling has been visited all over the places in Taiwan, All together accumulated 200 thousand kilometers distance from the top of the mountains to the sea coasts. (Equal to traveling around the island 168 times.), shooting the “Taiwanese grassroots portrait”. She has recorded almost 300 thousand photos and field research scripts in around 100 thousand words. Her works have been exhibited in Duke University, America; Google headquarters in Silicon Valley, California; 2008 Olympics, Beijing; Indian School of Design, Japan JPCA SHOW, Macau HKUST and Taipei Arena, the website page was viewed over 2.8 million times.
Taiwanese grassroots portrait ─Shen Hsin-Ling has been visited all over the places in Taiwan, All together accumulated 200 thousand kilometers distance from the top of the mountains to the sea coasts. (Equal to traveling around the island 168 times.), shooting the “Taiwanese grassroots portrait”. She has recorded almost 300 thousand photos and field research scripts in around 100 thousand words. Her works have been exhibited in Duke University, America; Google headquarters in Silicon Valley, California; 2008 Olympics, Beijing; Indian School of Design, Japan JPCA SHOW, Macau HKUST and Taipei Arena, the website page was viewed over 2.8 million times.
Taiwanese grassroots portrait ─Shen Hsin-Ling has been visited all over the places in Taiwan, All together accumulated 200 thousand kilometers distance from the top of the mountains to the sea coasts. (Equal to traveling around the island 168 times.), shooting the “Taiwanese grassroots portrait”. She has recorded almost 300 thousand photos and field research scripts in around 100 thousand words. Her works have been exhibited in Duke University, America; Google headquarters in Silicon Valley, California; 2008 Olympics, Beijing; Indian School of Design, Japan JPCA SHOW, Macau HKUST and Taipei Arena, the website page was viewed over 2.8 million times.
眼前社會亂象紛沓、是非混淆,充斥著扭曲的價值觀,耳濡目染之中,會出現什麼樣的下一代?所謂「不辦教育,將蓋監獄」,台灣長期注重學科教育,易忽略「品格教育」是同等重要。安安網站前十年致力學科建置與推廣,累積許多成果並啟發各界投入。接著十年打造「6E品格教育工程」(The Six Es of Character Education),彙編國內外三千部動畫影片、七十萬字教案、試卷與學習單,啟動全國368鄉鎮巡迴品格演講列車,深訪校園巡講,共營學養兼備的世代。
Education for the Underprivileged Youth 6E Personality Education What kind of talents will be needed for Taiwan after 10, 20 years? Most of all, characteristics (character education) will be the most essential element. The Six Es of Character Education has been collecting thousands of videos, trivia games, stories, and digital learning material for experiencing life. It also aims to cultivate new hope for the next generation in Taiwan.
Education for the Underprivileged Youth 6E Personality Education What kind of talents will be needed for Taiwan after 10, 20 years? Most of all, characteristics (character education) will be the most essential element. The Six Es of Character Education has been collecting thousands of videos, trivia games, stories, and digital learning material for experiencing life. It also aims to cultivate new hope for the next generation in Taiwan.
State of the Nation and Consultative Governance 2030 State of Taiwan People and Society White Paper Through surveys, field research, and data analysis, the goal for this project is to study important social issues on several fields, such as economic development and trades, social benefits, agricultural policies, education and culture, and multicultural education in Taiwan.
Knowledge Project HOPE 1132 Schools in Remote Countries Life Education Lecture Tour 1,132,statistically, is the number of schools in remote places in Taiwan. In reality, it means the places where the kids who desire to go to school (or to receive education). Hsin-Ling Shen, who has being a character in the textbook, has traveled through Taiwan main island, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu, Green Land and Lanyu, while she visited many schools in remoted places. She initiated this Enlightenment Project to help kids to open their mind, change their attitude to life, and to create new opportunity through sharing her one sentence and one concept.
Humanities and History Local Taiwan Portraits It has been compiled from the visits of 7,853 villages by Hsing-Lin Shan since 8 years ago. The goal of this project is to preserve the local culture and history through the Local Taiwan Portraits, to establish digital collections and databases, and to share them internationally
2005 (14 years old) attended the 49th Women’s Summit (UN-CSW) at the UN Headquarters in New York and served as a UN Peace Initiative Volunteer (UNV) for Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania. Sustainable development of grassroots education, health, rural development, youth micro-credit, and women’s rights in slums in Tanzania, Kenya, Ghanaian, and Uganda.