by Dionel Rodriguez | Mar 5, 2025
St. Cecilia String Orchestra
Fr. Kurt J. Anderson, M.M.
Music is a wonderful connector for human beings and in Taiwan, Father Anderson has seen this come to life through this Apostolic Project that helps students become involved with the St. Cecilia String Orchestra. He notes that it is a uniting activity for the students, friends and their families as Christian and family values are promoted.
Your gift can build a love of music in children in the Taichung Diocese and connect families and friends through a thread of love and connection.
“Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy.”
Psalm 33:3
by Dionel Rodriguez | Feb 22, 2023
Vocation, Care of Creation, Social Justice Program
Supply Chain Due Diligence Program – Building relationships with migrant workers and strategic engagement with companies and associations, we involve multinational corporations to play a critical role in remediating human rights and ecological abuses in their supply chains. Being on the ground, we have already established trust with the migrant worker community, and often are the first to hear the workers’ grievances. Therefore, we find ourselves in a unique position to amplify their voices. By connecting workers with businesses, government agencies, and civil society we encourage due diligence, catalyze audits, and promote an ethical supply chain.
We begin and end prioritizing authentic worker voice. We believe that in knowing and showing the experience of migrant workers, we can foster an environment for meaningful dialogue between multinational brands & buyers, government offices, and civil society. Together this can lead to actualized remedy directly to the workers themselves.
“For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things were created through him and for him” Colossians 1:16
by Dionel Rodriguez | Jun 11, 2020
Migrant Ministry to Foreign Migrant Workers and New Immigrants in Taiwan
Maryknoll Ministry to Foreign Migrant workers and New Immigrants in Taiwan is in the Diocese of Taichung and Archdiocese of Taipei. The two Ugnayan centers and shelters serve and welcome all foreign migrant workers in Taiwan and provide the following services:
- We reach out to the foreign migrant workers, the new immigrants, foreign spouses and their families.
- We rent buildings for church, activities, training centers and shelters for foreign migrant workers.
- We provide free educational training to help improve the job skills of the workers (electronic repairs, carpentry, dressmaking), basic Chinese language, leadership formation, lectures and seminars.
- We partner and network with other church groups and NGO’s in doing advocacy for migrant workers’ rights and government agencies for trainings.
With your help, Father Joyalito Tajonera, M.M., can support these migrant workers.
