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178 articles
27Feb.
2022

Does Being Careless Mean You Intended to Do Wrong? An Interview with Attorney Kuo Hao-Jen

Written by Yeh Yü-Lin; Edited by Chen Mei-Hui

Like a drift net, the prevailing approach can sweep in almost anyone: once a person of ordinary mental capacity hands…

27Feb.
2022

After a Cryptocurrency Scam: Scars Remain, but We Can Learn to Live with Them and Move Forward

Text by Yen Ching-Jou, Chen I-Hsuan, Huang Yu-Ting

Hsiao-Chieh thought to himself: he had never used the account, so how could money possibly have been transferred into…

27Feb.
2022

After a Romance Scam: I Don't Want Fear of Scams to Stop Me from Understanding the World

Text by Huang Po-Hsuan

"My mom called me stupid and asked how I could have been scammed. But to me, he wasn't a stranger." At the very…

31Dec.
2021

Living on the Streets | Interview with Wanhua Social Welfare Center Social Worker Chu I-Chun, Da-Pang, and Professor Wu Tsung-Sheng (Part 1)

Written by Chen Mei-Hui

At the Wanhua Social Welfare Center, social worker Chu I-Chun, Da-Pang, and Professor Wu Tsung-Sheng describe how fraud…

31Dec.
2021

Lecture Sidelights | Seeing Unhoused People in Dummy-Account Fraud Cases ft. Do You A Flavor × Homeless Taiwan Association

Liu Wei-Chen (Current Researcher, author of "The Impact of Social Work Education, Ideology, and Poverty Attribution on Social Work Students' Attitudes Toward Poverty") & Yeh Wei (Full-time Research Assistant, Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University); Edited by Li Ming-Ju

Social workers Ho Chia-Hsiang and Wu Yen-Te examine how people experiencing homelessness become entangled in…

31Dec.
2021

Poverty Is a Difficult Assignment-but Must the Judiciary Complete It? | Interview with NTU Professor Li-Chen Cheng

Written by Li Yuan-Ching (Double major in Law and Social Work, NTU); Edited by Li Ming-Ju

Professor Emerita Li-Chen Cheng of National Taiwan University discusses how social work and law understand poverty…

31Dec.
2021

Living on the Streets | Interview with Wanhua Social Welfare Center Social Worker Chu I-Chun, Da-Pang, and Professor Wu Tsung-Sheng (Part 2)

Text by Kao Hung-Chün

The second part of the interview focuses on the hidden power relationships that make unhoused people especially…

31Oct.
2021

Former Colleague O'ol's Observation Diary | The Secret of an Exceptional Fundraiser

By O'ol

A lighthearted look at the craft behind JRF fundraising: Su Chien-Ho's personalized donor outreach, deep knowledge of…

31Oct.
2021

"Society Should Have Fairness and Justice; When Others Live Well, I Live Well Too": An Interview with Artist Lin Ta-Yang

Written by Hsü Yi-Wei, JRF Intern

Artist Lin Ta-Yang has spent decades documenting the lives of urban Indigenous people in Taiwan through oil painting,…