Area 7, District 3523

Meetings and events

Service first, fellowship after

Upcoming meetings

6 meetings

2026.09.22 (Tue) Regular meeting

Running a Nonprofit Newsroom: An Amplifier for the Unheard

Speaker: 葉靜倫 Sara
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Right Plus

Right Plus is one of few independent outlets in Taiwan focused on social welfare and the public interest. This talk looks at how a nonprofit newsroom sustains itself outside the commercial traffic economy while speaking for those in precarious circumstances.

2026.10.13 (Tue) Regular meeting

India and Taiwan Democracies: Many Lessons to Learn

Speaker: Mukesh Kaushik
Taiwan Fellowship visiting scholar, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Senior defence and strategic affairs correspondent, Dainik Bhaskar (India)

An annual diplomacy talk is one of this club's standing traditions. This session brings an Indian correspondent with 35 years covering diplomacy and defence to compare the democratic paths of both countries.

2026.10.27 (Tue) Regular meeting

Ten Reasons PanSci Became a YouTuber

Speaker: 鄭國威
Founder and Chief Knowledge Officer, PanMedia Group; Host of PanSci

How PanSci moved from a website to YouTube, using video and short-form formats to carry science beyond its own echo chamber and into wider public conversation.

2026.11.24 (Tue) Regular meeting

Warmth Across Borders: Caregiving Through the Eyes of Borrowed Grandpa

Speaker: 莉莉 Ririn Arumsari
Home-care worker from Java, Indonesia; author of Borrowed Grandpa

Coming from Java, Indonesia, with a dream kindled by a Taiwanese television drama, Lily spent nearly a decade supporting Taiwanese families as a professional carer — speaking fluent Mandarin and Taiwanese — while writing down her migrant life on a tiny phone screen. Her debut novel, Borrowed Grandpa, captures the loneliness of old age and the understanding that slowly grows between carer and cared-for.

2026.12.08 (Tue) Regular meeting

Believe in Goodness: Stories from Migrant Workers to the Iron Brigade

Speaker: 潘威達
CEO, Eater Iron Bang F&B Group

How does a homegrown Taiwanese food-and-beverage group turn migrant worker talent into its own Iron Brigade? CEO 潘威達 shares the human-talent philosophy behind eleven restaurant brands — and the guiding belief: believe in goodness, change lives with your life.

2026.12.22 (Tue) Regular meeting

Aromatherapy and Sleep: So Fascinating You Can't Fall Asleep

Speaker: 蔡宛真
Aromatherapist; EMHA, Institute of Health Policy and Management, National Taiwan University College of Public Health

Can't sleep — is counting sheep all you've got? Aromatherapist and public-health researcher 蔡宛真 takes us from sleep science through olfactory training to daily ritual, exploring the real relationship between scent and sleep. 22 December falls on the winter solstice — attendees will also make a sleep-aid sachet to take home.

Past events

Meetings already held, most recent first.

2026.09.08 (Tue) Regular meeting

Climate Change, Adaptation and Net Zero in Taiwan's Agricultural Sector

Speaker: 陳吉仲
Chair Professor of Applied Economics and Vice President, National Chung Hsing University; former Minister of Agriculture

From academia to the cabinet, the speaker has spent his career on agricultural policy and industry development. This talk covers the challenges and openings Taiwanese agriculture faces in climate adaptation, the net-zero transition and long-term sustainability.

2026.08.25 (Tue) Regular meeting

Nostalgia and Invention in a Jar of Fruit Chilli Sauce

Speaker: 徐彩玲
Founder, New Chili Sauce; Secretary-General, Mayuan Community Development Association, Gukeng, Yunlin

The daughter of an immigrant mother and a Gukeng farming family, the speaker grew up as her mother's cultural interpreter. She now blends Thai flavours from her mother's homeland with local Yunlin produce under the New Chili Sauce brand, giving hometown crops a new story and new value.

2026.08.11 (Tue) Regular meeting

One Possible Future for Taiwanese Farming: The Formosa Goose Model

Speaker: 蔡英地
CEO, Formosa Goose

At forty the speaker traded his suit for rubber boots, leaving a finance role at a multinational technology firm to raise geese in Yunlin. Facing extreme weather, labour shortages and an ageing workforce, he introduced climate-controlled housing and renewable energy to build a full chain from production through energy to brand.

2026.07.28 (Tue) Regular meeting

The Power of Culture: From the Taiwan Literature Award for Migrants to Screen Content

Speaker: 謝易芸
VP of Operations, GrX Studio; Board Member, Taiwan Wild Grass Writers Association

This club is a continuing supporter of the Taiwan Literature Award for Migrants, which encourages writers working in Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai, Khmer, Filipino and Burmese to tell their own stories. The 2026 edition drew a record 549 submissions. This talk examines culture as a force for inclusion.

2026.07.14 (Tue) Regular meeting

Giving Childhood Back, One Playground at a Time

Speaker: 王秀娟
Chair, Taiwan Parks & Playgrounds for Children by Children (TWPfC)

The first regular meeting of the new Rotary year. What began as one mother's concern grew into influence over public space planning across Taiwan — not simply playground construction, but a public conversation about childhood, community participation and the future of cities.