Sponsor meals and education for Taiwanese children

Thank you for your donation! We encourage you to download the pdf that features almost two dozen creative education sessions, Brighter Futures afterschool care programs, recap of the meals shared; and most importantly, the smiles on the children's faces. There are no words that can encapsulate these moments. 

We are nearing the end of the year and find the simple act of being able to add to our ongoing list of things we’ve been doing such a joy. We are grateful for the youth that keep coing back to our workshops and have continued to become teachers and volunteers for us as a sense of pride in that they are enjoying what we are doing and also then want to continue to spread that love to others.

From Brighter Futures and afterschool care program in Taitung and our creative education workshops throughout Taiwan, boxing, yoga, surfing, animal welfare and senior dog care, cupcake making, sushi making, pizza baking, elementary school graduation and indigenous harvest celebration, we just love being a part of it all, a part of life. For the remainder of the year we are lining up DJ experiences courses with all of our locations, in addition to the year end Santa Jia-Xin necessities drive and staple foods delivery. We hope that you can continue with us on our life journey as we are heading into the next chapter in life.

• 2025 Jan-Oct Meals & Creative Edu Taiwanese Youth (PDF)
  

How is already the middle of the year? The first half of 2025 went by quickly and before we knew it, we hadonce again scoured through thousands of photos dating back to 2013 to print out images for our indigneous kidsfrom ChingChuan, graduating from elementary school!

This was a special season as we were able to expand Bright Side Projects workshops out to youth in Taipei City and also Taichung, through the No Meat Festival and the sustainable art market. This allowed us to be able to let more people know what we were doing and how they can help - all so that we are able to continue our journey of close to 15 years - and that they may also be welcomed to join us. From the mountains of ChingChuan to the oceans of Yilan and our indigenous village in Taitung, we really want hope that you can see what we are up to in this report. The act of choosing love may seem so difficult at times but always worth it when we see the smiles on the faces of the youth and the faces of the adults that were once in our creative education workshops.

January - June 2025 :
624 spots for youth in creative education and afterschool care programs
595 served plant-based meals for youth

For more details and images please download our PDF/

Links:

• Advocacy Through Art Paint & Paws 2024-2025
• Bright Side Website
• IG

• Bright Side Projects Education meals SS 2025 (PDF)