A hand, at the
hardest moment.
The iHelp Charitable Trust Fund helps cancer and rare-disease patients face treatment, get through the hardest stretch, and return to life.
iHelp Charitable Trust — Hope Fund
Funded by donations from caring companies, organizations and individuals, the fund helps cancer and rare-disease patients face treatment with courage and return to daily life.
Emergency relief for cancer & rare-disease patients
Eligibility and application follow the fund's published rules; the flow below is illustrative.
Check eligibility
Confirm cancer or rare-disease status and the published emergency-relief criteria.
Prepare & apply
Submit diagnosis and financial documents through a case-management contact.
Review & disburse
Once approved, the case subsidy is disbursed per the grant rules.
Trustee-bank announcements and disclosures follow regulator and trustee rules.
Smiling Mid-Autumn — gifts turned into resources
Instead of buying Mid-Autumn gift boxes, the group redirects the budget to patients and students in remote townships — prioritising poverty, inequality, health and wellbeing.
- 2014SDG 4
Dehua Elementary archery team
Thirteen archers at Dehua Elementary by Sun Moon Lake shared eight bow sets and NT$6,500 of travel funding. Staff pooled the mooncake budget into NT$80,000, sending the team to its first national regional competition.
- 2015SDG 3
St. Mary's Hospital Taitung
Funded St. Mary's Hospital Taitung and its meal delivery for older residents in Taiwan's east.
- 2016SDG 3
Founding Nanhui Hospital
Backed Dr. Hsu Chao-pin's return home to found Nanhui Hospital, bringing emergency care to the Pingtung–Taitung highway and anchoring community care for children and elders around it.
- 2017SDG 1 · 3
Establishing the iHelp Charitable Trust
Endowed the iHelp Charitable Trust with NT$2m for emergency relief to cancer and rare-disease patients with dependent children, referred through hospitals. From 2017 to 2022 it reached 10–20 families a year at NT$30,000 each, with a further NT$1–1.5m of group profit contributed annually.
- 2018SDG 4
Xiuluan Elementary judo team
Xiuluan Elementary in Jianshi, Hsinchu, averages 14°C and boards mostly Atayal students. Its single judo coach also teaches and handles administration, training the team unpaid. The group funded a semester so the children could compete — a placing opens a path to further education.
- 2019SDG 10
Hengchun Christian Hospital
Supported Hengchun Christian Hospital and its commitment to stay and care for Taiwan's southernmost communities.
- 2020SDG 10
Hengchun vulnerable-family programme
On a remote peninsula with few jobs, working-age residents leave and elders and children remain. Funded the hospital's medical care, meal delivery and home visits for them.
- 2021SDG 4
Laptops for after-school classes
Through the pandemic, mountain-village children lacked equipment for remote learning; laptops were donated via the hospital's volunteers so their schooling could continue.
- 2022SDG 4 · 10
Refurbished computers for tutoring
The hospital runs 19 rural after-school centres offering tutoring and dinner. With rural bandwidth and hardware still far behind the cities, the group funded the centres and refurbished its retired computers for them.
- 2023SDG 2 · 3
Nutrition for children at Taiwan's tip
The Smiling Mid-Autumn campaign supported nutrition for children on the Hengchun peninsula.
Press coverage - 2024SDG 1 · 3
Street family-medicine clinics
Roughly 3,000 people sleep rough in Taiwan's cities; nearly half once held jobs, yet avoid hospitals for fear of judgement. The group supplied stethoscopes, cleansing wipes and wound dressings to Si-An Charity's street clinics so they can receive care with dignity.
- 2025SDG 3 · 10
Rare-disease Smile Ambassador speakers
With the Taiwan Foundation for Rare Disorders, the group launched a corporate lecturer program: people living with rare diseases are selected and trained as life-story speakers who visit companies. For the first time the spotlight returns to patients' own voices — turning resilience into motivation for employees and signalling society's support for the rare-disease community.
- 2026SDG 3 · 10
Smile Ambassadors enter the Rare Home
In its second year. From launch in November 2025 to September 2026, nine companies across industries have taken part and more than 1,000 employees have joined craft workshops and story sessions led by rare-disease life ambassadors. From the second half of 2026 the programme expands into three strands: ambassadors speaking inside companies, a day at the Guanxi Rare Home for corporate HR and CSR teams, and a limited-edition handmade bag initiative for November's Rare Artisans Month.
Read the release
Each year the faces of those we support are baked into a box of “smiling mooncakes” for the clients and friends who back us — because of them, we can help more people.
Want to
help too?
Companies, organizations and individuals can donate through the trust; funds go directly to emergency relief.