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Distributing aid to Taiwan’s aborigine mountain people
Young patient being attended to in makeshift outdoor dentist
facility in mountain village.
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Project Manager Alexandra Booth |
Taipei, Taiwan
Taiwan Family Mission
Project Manager: Alexandra Booth
Taiwan Family Mission provides assistance for the
aged, sick, orphans, handicapped, and youth at risk in detention
centers.
Taiwan Family Mission also regularly assists in medical missions
to outlying villages where they help bring medical supplies, medicines
and medical care.
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Medical Missons to
Mountain Villages
Our three-day medical mission takes
us to seven rural villages, accompanying doctors
and a dentist from the Taiwan Medical Peace Corps.
Another time we accompany the Taiwan Root Medical
Mission on a two-day mission, visiting four Tsao
Aborigine villages, the doctors donating medical
and dental services to 200 patients. The Tsao
people live in villages with no medical assistance,
the closest medical facilities are a one-to-two-hour
ride away. We begin by going around the village
to announce the clinic and check for homebound
patients.Yet another three-day trip will take
us to seven Paiwan Aborigine villages.
An open air clinic, the trademark of
Taipei Medical Peace Corps.
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Alexandra (right) with head of the Taiwan
Medical Peace Corps.
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Doctors posing wearing traditional aboriginal
dress
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Alexandra with village kids, while they
await medical check-up
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In collaboration with a local organization
that provides dentists and doctors for medical
missions, we visit mountain villages which have
no access to medical help. On each visit to a
village we treat an average of 50 patients for
dental and medical problems. Each visitor to the
clinics also received reading material on various
topics of healthful living and spiritual issues,
prayer and counsel
Doctors remove a fishhook from boy’s
head.
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Alexandra (left of center) with medical
group
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Other Activities
Our audience today… young offenders
at a detention center
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Cheering up residents of an old folk’s
home goes a long way towards improving
their health.
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Young men in detention centers may take
some time to warm up, but all are boys
at heart
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Village children choosing their own personal
toys from supplies we transported to their
mountain region
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