Radio Taiwan International 
Date: 25 March, 2019
By: Natalie Tso

Yang’s graduation present to these children are his photos of them. (Picture by Yang Wen Yi)

Taiwanese photographer Yang Wen-yi received an Outstanding Young Persons Award from the New Taipei City government this weekend. He was honored for volunteering to help remote schools put together graduation albums. He and his team have dedicated themselves to making these albums for remote and underfunded schools for the past five years.

Yang is a 36-year old professional wedding photographer based in New Taipei City. He said he volunteered to help make the students’ dreams for these albums become reality. He started off with just three schools. This year he made albums for 31 schools.

Yang said all the encouragement and smiles he’s received from the school children are worth all the time and resources he has put into the projects. He has done albums for schools in indigenous areas of Pingtung, Taitung and Hualien counties.    [FULL  STORY]