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Hong Yeh Elementary School (2007 CyberFair Project ID 4959)
Taiwan,
Wanrong Shiang,
Hualien
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 2. Community Groups and Special Populations
We estimate 5 student(s) from 11 to 12 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Years ago, Hongyeh used to be the habitation of Amis people. They scattered about mountains near the police station. It was so named as “Gaoyao” for its numerous Shanmao. Later, the native Amis moved far to the west wing of coastal mountain (nowadays Hegang) when the Typhoon arrived, the land flooded and plowland eroded away, in addition to the harassment and invasion of Bunun. A small number of invaders settled in the hillside along the Hongyeh River. Since 1993, Truku began to settle in. They called the area “Itofukelenan”. However, as it’s narrow in shape and umbrageous with flourish ample trees, the name was translated as “Hongyeh”, only local Truku still call it “Ifunan. Truku was actually a clan of Sedeq Toroko. Most of them firstly lived in Hutou Mt., a southern mountain at the left bank of Hongyeh River lying to the west of Ruisui Hot Spring. They were named Hongyeh Tribe; Then a small branch of a tribe moved in Dijia Mt. near the nowadays Hongyeh Hot Spring. As the Dijia Mt. sits opposite to the habitation of Hongyeh Tribe, they were also called “Sipao”; the subsequent colonies, Bunun of Mahowan, occupied the eastern edge of Hongyeh Tribe habitation.
Project Description: The ten Great Mother come from different areas of the country including Taipei, Taoyuan, Ilan, Jiayi, Kaohsiung, Pingtung, Hualien. The great deeds of every mother could touch people to the heart. Mrs. Mei-yuan Lin, trekked all the way moving from Taipei to Yungkang, then to Shipai, Sanchi, Luchou, and at last settled in Hualie simply to ensure that her daughter could receive ready treatment for her congenital brain development deficiency. Her story resembles much of Mencius’s mother who moved their home three times from bad neighbor in order to keep her son from their bad influence(Mencius was a great thinker and educator in about 370 BC.);There is also Mrs. Chang-hong Li Yang, who patiently attends her disabled son as well as her granddaughter with Cerebral palsy; to free her two kids with mental retardation and dysaudia from their father’s abuse and violence and give them good education, Mrs. Yu-yan Chou ventured to ask for the intervention of social volunteers. She resorted to every help available in the society to procure the rights of custody of two kids and fosters two kids independently later. A vonWillebrand victim, Mrs. Chao-jin Wang, took the trouble of attending two kids suffering from the same disease. Mrs. Mei-hua Hsu had once thought of giving up the two kids with dysaudia, but now the two kids become superior sportsman. With Mrs. Hui-ling Wu careful attendance, her kid who had been diagnosed to have no more than three months to live by doctors due to development efficiency of enteric canal nerve is seven years old this year. Another kid with dysaudia, under years’ attentive care of her mother, Mrs. Chiou-ju Chen, has grown up to be an accomplished college students studying in the sociology department of Fujen Catholic University. In order to acquaint mothers with the symptoms of handicap kids, Mrs. Li-ching Chen, organized an Ichthyosis Association. Mrs. Yu-ling Hsu founded the southern chapter of Asperger Syndrome spreading their love to more handicap kids. These Great Mothers’ story, the strength and courage as well as the tensile force and flexibility of life they displayed in struggle with misfortune, baptized our soul. It spurs us to plan this project to let all members discern the greatness of mother’s love and through this, we intend also to give encouragement and consolation to those suffering friends.