Taipei City unveils first welfare facilities at public housing complex

Mayor Ko Wen-je inaugurated a senior citizen service and daycare center and a child daycare center which are housed inside the Jiankang Public Housing complex on May 24

Taiwan News 
Date: 2018/05/27
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)–Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je inaugurated a senior citizen

Courtesy of Taipei City Government

service and daycare center and a child daycare center which are housed inside the Jiankang Public Housing complex on May 24.

Ko said this is the city’s first project incorporating welfare facilities into a public housing community, adding that the project is also the result of collaboration between the Department of Urban Development and the Department of Social Welfare.

Securing a location for social welfare facilities has always been a challenge, so Taipei City Government adopts a new practice where spaces on lower levels of public housing complexes can be allocated as venues for child day care, senior care, and community activities.    [FULL  STORY]

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