Time really flies – it’s our third holiday season of cooperating with Jia-Xin and her family to make her wish come true! It’s hard to imagine that we would also finally meet in Berkeley this October as they happened to have moved to the United States from Canada! Hopefully we can secure our goal of $1,500 USD this year and keep our momentum going. Thanks everyone for their support in the past years. 時間過的太快了，已經是JIAXIN跟我地三年合作了！沒想到今年10月份去了美國也終於有機會跟JIAXIN還有他家人”face to face“認識～他家人也剛好從加拿大幫到加州！
這三年來謝謝大家的支持， 希望我們今年也可以達到目標！今年最少需要1500美金（45000台幣）!
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What is a 6 year old girl’s wish?
一個六歲小女孩的願望：
六歲女孩的希望是什麼? 美麗的蓬蓬裙還是開心的遊樂園之旅?
今年九歲的台灣小孩JIAXIN，飄洋過海從小被一戶加拿大家庭收養。2012年十一月，JIAXIN的養父在一次機會中用電子郵電聯絡給我，希望我幫他實現JIAXIN的願望。因為JIAXIN在加拿大之前從來沒有慶祝過聖誕節，所以慷慨又熱心腸的JIAXIN希望能把耶誕節的歡騰及溫暖感染給每個人。
去年我們了實現她的願望，並且轉交JIAXIN準備的禮物和日常所需品（例如：食物，毛巾，夾克等。 ）給需要的孩子們。由於HOLIDAY的意義不只是送禮物，更重要的是大家一起過冬至·。因此，今年我們策劃了一個焦糖蘋果工作坊和還子一起歡度冬至。
JIAXIN2013年的影片： https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUvpKftTeRM
從海外捐款您可以到 https://www.toysfortaiwan.org/
台灣國內捐款可提供您賬號，我們的電子信箱為：Brightside.tw (at) gmail.com
您可以參考以下網址：https://wp.me/P326jt-zW
臉書：https://www.facebook.com/toysfortaiwan
報導：https://brightside.tw/tag/santa-jia-xin/
2012一起做純素杯子蛋糕工作坊： https://wp.me/p326jt-84 及2013薑餅人: https://wp.me/p326jt-uO
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12月14日會跟睦祥育幼院孩子過一堂很棒的TIE－DYE課程
12月21日（天）也需要志工一起去清泉送禮物辦課程！
有興趣了解更多協會相關活動及資料麻煩填：https://eepurl.com/7Owk1
Our first year in ChingChuan! 第一年主要去清泉很孩子過這個季節～
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- Photo courtesy Jon Burke 白炯涵
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- Gift to a 2 year old! Photo courtesy Jon Burke 白炯涵
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- Enroute for delivery ~ Photo courtesy Jon Burke 白炯涵
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- Thanks to Sean and Annie’s English School for additional stocking stuffers!
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- Photo courtesy James Teng
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- Volunteer Joey being a sweetheart and went with me to select and buy warm thick jackets for kids
Our second year continues with ChingChuan families with delicious vegetarian food cooked by SALADAY and we were able to include Taoyuan MuHsiang’s Children’s Home. 第二年預算讓我們認識更多清泉的孩子，歡迎他們一起來用SALADAY現場準備的素食餐，還有桃園睦祥育幼院的朋友！
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- Thanks to Fresh Bakery and Cafe!
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- Fresh Bakery and Cafe’s vegan gingerbread cookies! Kids made the icing with some assistance 🙂 Photo courtesy Jon Burke
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- Creating snowpeoples
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- Saladay pasta. Read more here!
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- Wonderful Saladay meal enjoyed by the kids!
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- Fun at MuHsiang
JiaXin is a generous warmhearted little girl who was adopted from Taiwan and is now living in Canada. By a “chance” email back in November JiaXin’s father contacted me and asked me to fulfill a wish for his then little 6 year old girl.
Believing she never celebrated the holidays when she was in Taiwan, she wanted to be able to provide gifts to those who would benefit the most from a little warmth during the festive season.
For the past two years we were able to fulfill her wish via delivery of needed items (food, blankets, jackets) and gifts to the children. Since the holidays is not about material things, but also about spending time together, last year we created vegan cupcake workshop to spend time with the kids and the next year vegan gingerbread cookies. This winter solstice we’re looking at making some delicious caramel apples.
We are looking for your support and donation to make this dream come true again for 2014! Last year $1500 Canadian Dollars was raised – we hope to raise at least $1,500 USD this year.
From abroad you can donate at https://www.toysfortaiwan.org/
or in Taiwan let us know the amount brightside.tw@gmail.com and check here for bank details.
Message from JiaXin in 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUvpKftTeRM
Facebook：Toys for Taiwan
Past Reports on this：https://brightside.tw/tag/santa-jia-xin/
2012 vegan cupcake workshop： https://wp.me/p326jt-84 and the gingerbread decorating in 2013: https://wp.me/p326jt-uO
Credit to Melissa Ross
On December 14th we are going to be doing a fun holiday tie-dye workshop with kids at the MuHsiang Children’s Home.
On December 21st we hope to have some people join us for the gift and necessities delivery and also a similar tie-dye workshop in ChingChuan. To subscribe to our mailing list for this and future updates, go here.
HOW IS THE MONEY SPENT? 錢怎麼花呢？
第一年大部份是在交通（清泉離臺北有一段距離，去年也不只一輛車就有辦法把買的物質送得了），食物上面，溫暖的新衣服夾克，小禮物。 也有一部分是花在WINTER課程上面因為希望孩子不會認為季節只是有禮物可以收但是是大家一起畫的時間比較寶貴！
In 2012 funds were roughly split into four major segments ; approximately a quarter on staple foods, warm clothes (jackets), and small gifts (Christmas stockings, stocking stuffers, wrapping paper, cards inclusive). The remainder was utilized to implement the 2.5 hour each way delivery and Holiday workshops – because Christmas is about spending time together. Transportation is becoming a larger part as we cater to more kids, more families. Last year we needed 4 cars to deliver all the necessities and gifts to kids in ChingChuan whereas we squeezed into 1 the first year. Workshops take place on a completely different day as well.
A couple images from Harmony Home in a vegan gingerbread / snow snowmen side workshop with Teacher Snow last year as we had some budget for this. Join us! 第二年也有機會去關愛之家跟小雪老師帶純素薑餅人及雪人的課程! 歡迎加入我們！
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- Vegan Gingerbread people
＊ 12月份SANTA JIAXIN後若有剩餘款項，將留作支出嚮光協會日後的社會關懷活動。
* If there are remaining funds, they will go towards achieving the mission of Bright Side Projects future works in Taiwan.
