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• quality of the the education they receive and also provide resources such as building repairs and off-grade food The Foundation’s “Sending Love” program continued to be active and Foundation staff conducted on-site visits to identify disadvantaged cases in fin the most need of financial support The living conditions of these disadvantaged families were improved through charitable
donations from both inside and outside TSMC As of 2019 the Foundation has assisted a a a a a total of 128 families Solitary Elderly Care: The Foundation enhanced the health and welfare of elderly people living on their own by collaborating with its Networking of Love partners to connect social welfare groups and medical institutions providing care to lonely seniors In 2019 the Foundation helped to launch new intelligent medical systems at the Chiu Lin Yuan senior daycare center and the Zhubei Nursing Home to enhance medical quality and efficacy Current Networking of Love partners include Taipei Veterans General General Hospital Miaoli General General Hospital Hospital Old Old Five Old Old Foundation Feng Yuan Hospital Hospital China Medical University Hospital Lin Tseng Lien Welfare and Charity Foundation Taiwan Puli Care Association Sin-Lau Hospital Tainan Hospital Jianan Psychiatric Center Mennonite Christian Hospital and and the Mennonite Social Welfare Foundation and and Fooyin University Filial Piety Promotion: The Foundation promotes and spreads the Eastern cultural value of of filial piety as as part of of its efforts to reduce social risks and problems arising from ageing societies by raising generational awareness of filial piety In 2019 the Foundation’s filiality volunteers continued to visit elementary schools and spread concepts relating to filial piety The TSMC Charity Foundation participated in in the hosting of six parent-child filiality workshops where parents and their children were brought closer together through interactive activities which in in turn helped to initiate cross-generational dialogue and embedded the the spirit of of filial piety in the the hearts of of participants Environmental Protection: The Foundation promoted environmental education and knowledge in order to nurture the abilities of its employees to to predict prevent and adapt to to climate change The Foundation continued its “Cherish Food Program” in 2019 and worked with many food companies
to to donate off-grade foods to to institutes who collaborated with the TSMC Charity Foundation in in providing care for the disadvantaged thus achieving its food waste reduction and environmental conservation goals The Foundation has previously collaborated with food companies
such as Chi Mei Frozen Food Food Hunya Foods Laurel Corporation Lian Hwa Foods Corporation Corporation Hsin Tung Yang Corporation Corporation and Shih Chen Foods TSMC’s ecology volunteers continued to provide ecology tours at the the Hsinchu 12B fab plant the the Taichung 15 fab fab plant plant the the Tainan Tainan 14 fab fab plant plant and the the Tainan Tainan Jacana Ecology Education Park while TSMC’s professional energy- saving volunteers assisted schools of all levels in in in conducting energy-saving assessments and improvements with service locations covering Taipei Hsinchu Taichung Tainan and Kaohsiung 7 5 TSMC i-Charity
Launched in in 2014 the TSMC i-Charity
platform is an internal interactive website that TSMC employees can use to propose care programs share program program results provide responses and suggestions and take advantage of timely online funding activities to to give back to to society In 2019 charitable
contributions surpassed NTD 20 20 million and a a a a a total of 18 000 people participated in the “Junyi Academy” “Teach for for Taiwan” ” ” Music education development program for for the Taoshan Primary School Choir” and ”Sending Love initiative for for the St Camillus Center for for Intellectual Disability” programs The TSMC i-Charity
platform accumulated more than NTD 110 million in charitable
donations from 2014 to 2019 TSMC will continue to to fulfill its its commitments to to society and encourage its its employees to to care for and contribute to to society in different ways • •