Arcadyan has established the "Corporate Social Committee" (hereinafter referred to as the CSR Committee) within the "Social Participation Implementation Group" under the "Sustainable Development Committee." It collaborates with group enterprises and social welfare organizations to promote various social welfare activities. The CSR Committee formulates a social participation plan every year and holds various lectures and experiential activities to assist colleagues in implementing corporate social responsibilities in their daily lives. Arcadyan actively participates in numerous public welfare activities, gives back to society, and contributes to corporate social responsibility.
Remote Education
Arcadyan pays attention to children's education and leverages its business to provide additional educational resources and cultural stimulation for remote primary schools, aiming to promote an equal and high-quality educational environment. Remote education has always faced the problem of insufficient teachers, particularly in professional fields such as English.
Arcadyan observes three key challenges facing remote primary schools that are neither in mountainous nor urban areas in implementing English teaching: a lack of English teachers, a lack of bilingual application and learning environments for students, and a significant gap in English proficiency among students, along with a lack of learning motivation. Since 2015, Arcadyan has been investing in the promotion of English education in these areas. The focus is on solving the high turnover rate of English teachers and the difficulty in recruiting teachers.
Remote English Learning Program
After the COVID-19 pandemic, the policy of suspending classes without suspending learning has led to a trend in digital learning. Arcadyan also recognizes the opportunities that distance teaching offers for schools in remote, non-mountainous, and non-urban areas. The Arcadyan CSR Committee is discussing the possibility of public welfare cooperation with the Winning+ online course platform (Winning English Co., Ltd.), aiming to bring high-quality foreign language teaching to remote and non-mountainous and noncity schools through technology. This initiative has launched since 2022 as the "Remote English Learning Program" project. Winning+ is a Taiwan-Philippine joint venture language school, Winning English School, a new operation project launched due to the epidemic restrictions on physical teaching. Arcadyan supports the digital transformation of local enterprises in Taiwan during the epidemic and has purchased suitable English courses from Winning+, including K12 children's English programs, children's natural pronunciation, children's rhythmic nursery rhymes, and children's career experience programs.
The "Remote English Learning Program" project was expanded to 9 elementary schools and 1 junior high school in 2023, investing more than NT$420,000 to provide educational resources and help improve the daily English proficiency of 186 students. The level-based and small-class teaching approach enables students with no prior English foundation to gradually engage in simple conversations and interact naturally with foreign teachers after one semester of courses. A professional English teacher noted that the "Remote English Learning Program" project greatly aids school English classes. Children work harder to listen and speak, and they gain a significant sense of accomplishment from understanding the material. In 2023, the total study hours for the "Remote English Learning Program" project amounted to 348 hours.
In addition to classroom courses, Arcadyan sponsored students for a two-week study tour at the Winning English Language School in the Philippines in the summer of 2023. It allowed children to learn English in an immersive environment, experience local culture, interact with students from around the world, and expand their worldview. The study tours not only extended language learning but also provided the experience of living and studying with classmates, temporarily leaving home to support independent living. It promoted the growth and development of children's non-cognitive skills in all aspects of life and cultivates grit, perseverance, curiosity, optimism, zest, conscientiousness, and self-control, thereby improving children's character.
Support Disadvantaged Groups
Adhering to the principle of taking from society and using it for society, Arcadyan is committed to social welfare and strives to give back to the community in the long term. Arcadyan actively supports the Hsu Chauing Social Welfare Charity Foundation's philosophy of caring for the disadvantaged, helping others with kindness, and providing economic and resource assistance to disadvantaged children. Through the Dream Flying Project, Arcadyan help financially disadvantaged children with unique potential to develop their talents, benefiting a total of 24 disadvantaged children in 2023. We sponsor disadvantaged children to receive necessary supplies, daily necessities, or holiday gifts before the start of school and on special holidays (such as New Year's Day, Children's Day, Christmas, etc.).
Arcadyan also pays attention diverse social issues. In 2023, It cooperated with 27 non-profit organizations and social welfare groups, preparing budgets to support after-school tutoring and summer camps for disadvantaged students, resettlement and return-to-school programs for marginalized students, and social services for people with physical and mental disabilities and their families. Arcadyan provided festival gifts for disadvantaged families (such as Mother's Day cakes, Moon Festival, and Dragon Boat Festival gifts) and purchased food for worship according to the food bank's needs. After the ceremony, Arcadyan donated the food to disadvantaged families and children. In 2023, the total donation amounted to NTD 3.19 million.
