2006 Reported by "Passion and Care", issued by Taiwan International Health Action

 The Arrival of Spring after Disaster

Globally, one catastrophe after another occured between 2000 and 2006: civil war in Kosovo, an earthquake in Iran, a tsunami in South Asia, Hurricane Katrina, mudslides in the Philippines, an earthquake in Indonesia... Leaving tens of thousands suffering, helpless and homeless victims.

Without hesitation, Taiwan sends a number of rescue and medical teams to areas affected by disasters, Why? Because we are part of the global village, bonded together in friendship and humanity, no matter if we live next door or thousands of miles away.

Tsunami

The 2004 cataclysmic tsunami in South Asia left the beaches of Sri Lanka in shambles: littered with debris, huge uprooted trees, toppled stone pillars, and mangled corrugated iron gates.  Even railroad tracks were severely bent out of shape and displaced.  A chilling sight of utter devastation.  A broken clock that stopped at the time of the disaster.

Taiwan dispatched more than 200 workers to Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Thailand, assisting communities in rebuilding their homes and also donating more than US$50 million in relief aid.

In 1999, brutal armed conflict escalatted into a civil war in Kosovo, causing waves of refugees pouring into Macedonia.  The TRMPC established a medical station at the Stenkovac refugee camp on the Kosovo Macedonian border.

Intemists, surgeos, pediatricians, gynecologists, obstetricians, and dentists arrived from Taiwa to provide professioal help in 12 medical tents.  As the only medical team from Asia, the TRMPC provided comprehensive care fro approximately 40,000 refugees.