An-Shin Class
Through our securityexpertise,SKSworks hard to achieve corporate social responsibility. Since 2007, our An-Shin Classes have been implemented throughout Taiwan to promote safety education. This task has become more important in the face of environmental changes today as a result of climate change and global warming in recent years, which may further bring a variety of disasters. Therefore, SKS offers both online and physical sessions to enable students to learn at any time and with peace of mind. Furthermore, 2023 marks the launch of An-Shin Class: Food and Farming Education sessions, which aim at fostering respect and gratitude for food, producers, and the environment by experiencing the hardships of farming. With a focus placed on low-carbon food miles through "eating seasonally and locally," these sessions are centered on food and farming education to not only promote the habit of eating but also foster a concern for agriculture and the environment. In addition, environmentally friendly farming practices are also advocated to achieve the visions of biodiversity and resource sustainability by treating the environment and ecology friendly, to contribute to the sustainability of nature.
Promotion of University Students' Participation in Social Sustainability and Integration Together with LiFUNd
The Windbreaker Team of the CMU (Chinese Medical University) FengLang Pharmacy Service Club joined the SKS An-Shin Class team's ranks during summer vacation to cycle and visit the Ark Classroom of Taitung Daniao Catholic Church, the Taitung Kids Alive International Taiwan, and the Taitung County Changbin Township Jang Yuan
Primary School together. These remote areas have been facing uneven distribution of resources and a lack of safety awareness.
Through the CSR-USR collaboration, the An-Shin Class and Chinese Medical University's college camp students jointly educated the children in remote areas in the form of edutainment and through arts and cultural activities, helping them to learn with actual exercises while improving their knowledge of safety education in disaster prevention, information security, first aid, and food and farming.
Furthermore, we aim to nurture youth sustainability talent and promote regional revitalization by embedding sustainability into their DNA. We also hope that the project will attract more attention from society to care for the needs of residents in remote areas.
An-Shin Class – Friendly Farming Practices for Ecological Balance
Since 2015, SKS has been cooperating with the Yilan Young Farmers in the forms of contract farming, where friendly farming is practiced by leaving the land fallow after harvest before the following 120-day yielding period begins. This aims to maintain the ecological balance of the area and ensure peace of mind for rice recipients. In 2023, we organized a parent-child
experiential activity for food and farming education, in which participants experienced rice reaping and threshing and listened to ecological explanations to learn about the growth cycle of rice plants. There were also smallholder farmers introducing organic lotus flowers, and participants were taught to prick and eat lotus seeds on the spot, as well as other organic vegetables and fruits. Additionally, the rice-harvesting meal served to participants was also cooked with local ingredients. An-Shin Class successfully integrated our strength with social participation in the promotion of food and farming education from the perspective of
health, nutrition, and food. In the future, SKS will continue to organize sustainable, low-carbon parent-child trips centered on "Eco-Experience" and on "Introducing Rural Areas" while
strengthening the understanding of biodiversity conservation and sustainable utilization, in order to help achieve regional revitalization in rural areas. We aim to turn the common good of food and farming into a green force that will drive the sustainability transition in Taiwan.
