Vegetable garden helps fund home for disabled youth
Vegetable garden helps fund home for disabled youth
2026-04-16
After raising a child with disabilities, one father from Chiayi founded a non-profit organization that provides full-time care for people with disabilities. Moved by his passion, the Chang Yung-fa Charity Foundation donated NT$3 million to build a greenhouse vegetable garden for the organization, helping the people in its care to be more self-sufficient and increasing the organization’s income.
Following the teacher’s instructions, people in red shirts use scissors to cut and harvest vegetables. On the other side of the greenhouse, others carefully plant seedlings in the soil.
This is the Jochuerh Foundation’s greenhouse, and the hard-working people in red shirts all have disabilities. After learning simple skills, they can grow vegetables themselves, becoming more self-sufficient.
Lin Peng-hui
Jochuerh Foundation chair
This is not just a vegetable. It’s a union of benevolence, of great benevolence. Giving these kids healthy food to eat means fewer hospital visits, and that’s truly wonderful.
Lin Peng-hui founded this organization over 20 years ago. He and his wife adopted a son 41 years ago, and later discovered he had cerebral palsy. As they cared for their son, they realized that many families were facing similar struggles, so Lin founded the organization to provide a comfortable residence for children with disabilities. They hire staff split between three shifts to provide care full-time. The Chang Yung-fa Charity Foundation donated NT$3 million to build this greenhouse vegetable garden, showing its support for the organization.
Wu Ching-ming
Chang Yung-fa Charity Foundation chair
We had the opportunity to meet Mr. Lin. I think he has a huge heart, helping these children with disabilities to grow up and continuously caring for them. What he grows here is not just vegetables, but love, hope, and vitality.
Weng Chang-liang
Chiayi County Commissioner
Growing vegetables or farming is a great form of healing and therapy. It helps calm the mind, body, and spirit.
With the vegetable garden, the Jochuerh Foundation saves NT$60,000 every month. As the harvest stabilizes in the future, it can even provide the foundation with additional income. Those in the foundation’s care also gain a healthy, therapeutic new skill by caring for the garden.
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"嘉義林爸爸"成立身障兒基金會打造溫室菜園自給自足
2026-04-16
嘉義有一位「林爸爸」林朋輝，因為領養一名重度障礙的孩子，發現到照顧智能障礙兒的困難，於是成立了若竹兒基金會，提供全日型的照顧環境。感佩林爸爸的精神，張榮發慈善基金會捐贈三百萬，蓋了一座溫室菜園，讓院生能夠自給自足，還能增加基金會的收入。
在老師細心指導之下，大孩子們拿著剪刀，把成熟的菜採收起來，另一邊，則是專心的把小小菜苗插入土中。
這裡是若竹兒愛菜園，工作中的大孩子們都是智能障礙的患者，靠著簡單的技能，也能學習種菜，自給自足。
[[若竹兒基金會董事長 林朋輝]]
“這個不只一個菜，是一個善的結合，一個大善的結合。給小朋友吃健康的菜，少跑一些醫院，真的是非常好”
若竹兒基金會創辦人林朋輝和妻子沒有小孩，四十一年前領養了一名男嬰，後來卻發現孩子患有腦性麻痺，在照顧的過程中，發現到社會有許多相同的家庭，於是成立了基金會，為智能障礙孩子提供住宿型永久家園，三班制照顧，人力成本花費極高。張榮發慈善基金會於是捐助三百萬，興建這座溫室菜園，挹注若竹兒的營運。
[[張榮發慈善基金會董事長 吳景明]]
“我們有機會認識林爸爸，我覺得他的精神非常偉大，幫助這些身心障礙的兒童長大，持續來照顧他們，長出來的不只是菜，是愛跟希望跟活力”
[[嘉義縣長 翁章梁]]
“種菜或是農業，本身也是非常好的一種療癒跟療法，有助於整個身心靈的安定”
有了這座菜園，每個月可以節省下六萬元的菜錢，未來穩定收成之後，還能增加基金會的收入，院生在種菜的過程中，也能獲得療癒，可說是一舉多得。
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