Association Lauded for Long-term Care for Street Friends
Street Friends See Love in Action
In addition, Taoyuan Center initiates also contributed a batch of material to the used-material-recycling center of the Ren An Foundation, which after being reconditioned and categorized by the street friends, will be sold for charity by the Foundation. The proceeds will be used to help the street people.
A Warm Embrace
in the Cold of Winter
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On January 27, Golden Year 5 (2008), members of The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association attended a year-end dinner hosted for their street friends by the Taipei County Government and Taipei County Volunteers Association. Our fellow initiates were warmly welcomed by Director Li Li-chuan of the Social Affairs Bureau, Chairman Huang Hua-xing of the Volunteers Association and Director Huang Mei-ying of the Street Friends Midway Home, who were very grateful to Supreme Master Ching Hai for Her love and care for underprivileged street people over the years. In appreciation of our continuous, selfless and loving devotion and support, Taipei County Magistrate Chou Hsi-wei presented a plaque inscribed with the words “Benevolence Befitting All” to The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association.
On January 28, the Social Affairs Department of Taoyuan County and the Ren An Foundation held a service-and-counseling session at Taoyuan’s Wenchang Park to help the local street friends lead a normal life again. Association members from the Taoyuan Center participated in this charitable event by providing a hundred vegetarian meal boxes and distributing Alternate Living fliers. In appreciation of their compassionate actions, the event’s organizer thanked and presented our Association with a silk banner embroidered with the words “The Winds of Love are Everywhere.”
In
the winter months toward the end of Golden Year 4 (2007), Association
members from the Laiyi Center visited people in the neighborhood
and nearby mountainous areas to extend their concern and friendship.
They presented gifts of rice and Supreme Master Television flyers
to low-income households and physically or mentally challenged people
in Sinjhih Village, Wanluan Township and in the indigenous communities
of Laiyi Township, hoping to bring love and warmth into their lives.
