LITE-ON Technology Corporation

Agri-Food Education

Coming Closer to Farms and Learning to Respect Life, Supporting Agri-Food Education

The LITEON Cultural Foundation promotes environmental sustainability, pays attention to healthy diet and the environment—both closely linked to our day-to-day life, and strengthens the bond between students and the ecosystem through agri-food education. Since 2021, the Foundation has collaborated with the Lovely Taiwan Foundation. Now in its fifth year, the program focuses on schools outside of cities and mountains, which often fail to gain access to resources. It supports Yun-hai Elementary School and Yong-ding Elementary School in Shiding District, New Taipei City.

The course guides children to reconnect with nature and explore the natural environment between school grounds and the fields. They learn to respect the ecological order from the perspective of biodiversity in food education, rooted in the natural environment. By bonding with the land, children feel stronger identification with local culture and pay increased attention to the ecosystem.

Environmental Education

Food education, EQ aesthetics and environmentally sustainable green living

Extreme climate disasters across the globe are increasing in frequency in recent years. Since 2017, we have been promoting “food education, EQ aesthetics, and environmental sustainability and green living.” Through school tours, employee parent-child camp activities, and community parent growth groups, we cultivate good habits and buying behaviors among parents and children, and foster environmental sustainability in daily life through concrete actions. The Foundation won the 3rd Marine Education Contribution Award by the Ministry of Education in 2021.

Protecting birds of prey and returning them to nature

LITEON Cultural Foundation and LITEON jointly organized the first 1111 Circular Secondhand Bazaar in 2023. Some proceeds from the charity sales served to support the Society of Wilderness in their promotion of marine environmental education. We also cooperated with the WildOne Wildlife Hospital to rehabilitate precious protected birds, allowing them to fly again in our skies.

Predatory birds are keystone species, apex predators in the biodiversity chain. They have a strong influence on the ecosystem’s biodiversity and network stability, which is why in Taiwan, they’re listed as protected wildlife species. LITEON adopted predatory birds rescued by WildOne this year, including crested goshawks, collared scops owls, and mountain scops owls. The Company also launched a series of internal activities to reintroduce wild animals back to mountains and forests. These included a call for name proposals, popular voting, and ecological lectures, inviting employees to convey their good wishes to raptors by submitting name ideas. LITEON employees offered many creative ideas to help the birds “open their wings and fly”. Employees voted eagerly for a number of fun name proposals like “Majestic Eagle”, “Speedy Predator”, "Wandering Raptor”, “Darting Beauty”, “Nimble Wings”, “Fierce Fighter”, and “Golden Speedster”.

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