The target of holding the “2023 National Volunteer Campaign for Environmental Protection” is to show the vitality and to encourage the sense of honor of the volunteers; through the event, the government would like to increase the number of environmental protection works and to encourage exercise habits. This event was held on October 29th in Tainan City Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science Shao Tsung Gymnasium. During the event, 1,743 environmental protection volunteers from 22 counties were participated; include the Tainan County Traditional Food vendors, staffs and press, the total participants were added up to 2,077. 　　More environmental knowledge was blended into the interactive sports game in this year; hoping to spread out more education knowledge through interesting games, make the whole event more meaningful. Also, the managing team created a “Join environmental social networks,” any volunteer join Facebook or LINE group will received a meal ticket with thirty dollars. Four interactive games were designed for the event, such as: question game, garbage classification game, basketball game and bingo game. All games were designed based on the concept of being “green;” therefore, all volunteers brought their own dinning utensils, to reduce the usage of disposable tableware. 　　The opening performance was performed by Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology competitive cheerleading, then, MOENV (Ministry of Environment) minister Shieu, Tainan City deputy mayor Zhao, arrived and thanked all the environmental protection volunteers. At the end of the event, minister Shieu award a medal to fifty premium teams and the Executive Yuan premier Chen present award to 38 excellent environmental education volunteer. Finally, Tainan County Environmental Protection Bureau Director Hsu hand over the flag of the event to next year’s host, Hualien Country Government Deputy Magistrate Yan. The “National Environmental Protection Volunteers Sports Games” conformed to be environmental friendly, interesting, educational, and supportive to the local businesses; therefore, we hope by holding this meaningful annual event will bring positive influences to our people, which will bring everyone a better living environment. From February 14th to November 28th, we have been active on our social media platform, Facebook group EE Friends and LINE official account EEtouching. Across the two platforms, we organized eight environmental educational events that are related to MOENV policies, trending topics, holidays/festivals, and the two platforms welcomed 4,244 new members from different groups of people. We recorded Chinese, Taiwanese Hokkien and Hakka broadcast which topic is tea ceremony, and widely publicized in May and June. Besides, we also organized Volunteer Campaign for Environmental Protection materials which used to present on website.

Environmental education，Volunteers，Knowledge Contest