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Taipei cafe to help struggling youth get back on track
narrow streets in the Wanhua District
The Bookhouse Cafe, set to open tomorrow in Taipei’s Wanhua District , is to become the city’s first “social-purpose corporation” to shelter struggling young people.
It is a result of the city government’s participatory budgeting policy. The city government on Friday said that 63 projects chosen by Taipei residents on the city’s i-Voting online polling platform had been deemed feasible by city government agencies.
The Bookhouse Cafe, proposed by Zhongqing Borough Warden Fang Ho-sheng , was among the proposals.
Fang said Wanhua, commonly known as Monga, its Hoklo (commonly known as Taiwanese) name, has the highest concentration of teenagers who have legal troubles and that the project aims to help them find purpose and lead a self-sufficient life.
Two years ago, he teamed up with the Youth Counseling Committee Zhongzheng Division, hiring certified baristas to teach at-risk teenagers how to make coffee in a house owned by the Ministry of Defense, Fang said.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/09/04/2003654481
