Radio Taiwan International
Date: 22 August, 2019
By: Paula Chao

One Taiwanese senior citizen has received a special gift for her 108th birthday — a bedside Peking opera performance put on just for her.

It’s a gift from Huashan Social Welfare Foundation, an NGO that is dedicated to helping older people who are incapacitated, diagnosed with dementia, or have no one to care for them.

Since its establishment in 1999, the foundation has helped over 23,000 senior citizens, cleaning their houses, accompanying them to the doctors, and making their lives easier in other ways, too.

This Peking opera performance is being put on for an audience of one — 108-year-old Grandma Lee, who has been bed-ridden for years. To celebrate her birthday, the Huashan Social Welfare Foundation decided to help make one of her dreams come true, inviting a Peking opera actress to give a private bedside performance.    [FULL  STORY]