In the second semester of the 109th academic year, Professor Li Jianmo offered a service‐learning course in which he led us to volunteer with the “Shoes for Souls” Association, collecting and sorting used shoes and clothing. During our service, we learned that the association was facing a big challenge: in Kenya, where they provide medical care for jigger (sand flea) infections, they had been recording patient data by hand on paper in the field, then returning to the office to enter and organize it all manually—an extremely time‐consuming, labor‐intensive process. Two especially dedicated students volunteered to help: drawing on their expertise in electrical engineering, they wrote a mobile app so that social workers could enter case records on a tablet directly in the field. After months of hard work and many rounds of discussion, the system was finally completed and went live in the summer of 2021 at the Shoes for Souls service sites in Kenya. We are very proud to have contributed our bit to this international volunteer effort.

Every student harbors the seed of kindness, and NTU’s Department of Electrical Engineering service‐learning program is always eager to find opportunities to help it grow. The EE department regularly organizes tutoring programs, beach cleanups, and other service projects that practice life education through public service. This time, by developing an app for the Shoes for Souls Association, students further unleashed their professional potential, using their skills to create real value for the public good.

Although our development team was small, each member was top‐notch. During the winter break, the professor and his teaching assistant visited the association in Xinzhuang to discuss requirements, which gave us a clear direction. Once the semester began, student Yan Jiake volunteered to lead the project with his never‐give‐up attitude; student Xu Minqian also rose to the challenge. Because they chose to develop in React Native and use an Android emulator—technologies unfamiliar to most—they needed more time than expected, but researching those tools bolstered their professional knowledge and skills. Despite the heavy coursework and exam pressures of the semester, they remained enthusiastic, and because everyone felt responsible, collaboration was a truly joyful experience.

After the first version of the app was completed, the association gave us plenty of practical feedback—visiting NTU twice for face‐to‐face discussions and providing ideas online. Through multiple rounds of adjustments, the team refined the app to better meet the association’s needs. This task wasn’t tied to grades, but Yan Jiake treated it as seriously as any exam: “Only when I received the association’s final test results did the big weight in my heart finally lift.” Xu Minqian said, “Seeing the association actually use our app in the field to record cases—that’s when I truly felt, ‘We really did help people.’”

Replacing pen and paper with tablets in resource‐scarce Kenya is also an environmental contribution. This app reduces the massive paperwork and photo‐sorting labor previously required, freeing social workers to spend more time visiting people in need. Perhaps these digital records will one day help public‐health or medical experts develop better ways to prevent or treat jigger infestations.

In addition to our community‐development work in Africa’s poorest regions, we at Shoes for Souls hope to extend our mission by providing a platform where Taiwan’s youth can apply their talents in volunteer service—learning by doing and experiencing that helping others brings joy.

This service‐learning project with NTU’s EE department was exactly such an opportunity. Through the students’ professional IT expertise and passion for service, we were able to overcome our long‐standing challenge of only recording cases on paper in Africa, making effective data management and utilization impossible. This app has simplified the local social workers’ medical‐service process and improved our efficiency on the ground.