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Well-known for its good deeds, the Chiayi Charitable Organization mobilizes hundreds of volunteers on the weekends to repair bridges and pave roads. They arrive on packed tour buses from around the country, working together to improve community infrastructure. This time, they built a bridge in Chiayi’s Shuishang. Since it runs over the vital Chianan Canal, to avoid interfering with the Chiayi Science Park, for the first time, they used a significantly more difficult method that doesn’t disrupt the flow of water.

Workers pour concrete from an excavator, while scores of volunteers work together to haul dirt and rocks. This time, the renowned Chiayi Charitable Organization has brought over 200 volunteers to Chiayi’s Shuishang to build a new bridge.

Volunteer
Building bridge
We’re here to build a bridge! We’re great friends. If he goes, I go. We’ve been doing this from the very beginning until now. Don’t think about what you’ll get out of it. As long as you’re happy, that’s what matters.

Volunteer
Building bridge
It’s fun! It’s like we’re benefiting from the good deeds of the charity, getting to travel around and see nice places.

Some of the volunteers are nearly 90 years old, yet still show up to help out. For this project, the bridge goes over the Chianan Canal. To make repairs in the past, they had to stop the flow of water. But this time, to avoid disrupting operations at the Chiayi Science Park and construction of a new TSMC fab, for the first time, the organization tried out a much more difficult method.

Tsai Kun-chang
Chiayi Charitable Organization director
Stopping the flow would mean companies like TSMC and Formosa Chemicals wouldn’t have any water to use, resulting in huge losses. So this time, we did our best to avoid that.

Cheng Hsiu-yu
Chiayi Charitable Organization chair
We usually work on the weekends, but since the Labor Standards Act now says you can’t ship materials on Sundays, we’ve switched to Saturdays.

Whether donating money or getting their hands dirty, these volunteers will traipse across the country to pave the way forward for Taiwan’s small communities.

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