Volunteers jump to action after hearing young boy's written request for help to fix dilapidated house

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/11/09
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A Taiwanese student’s plea to help repair his family's house has received a warm response from a local charity, which took action on Sunday (Nov. 8) to turn the broken abode into a new, comfortable one.

The fifth-grader said that he lived with his sickly octogenarian great-grandmother, grandmother, and ailing aunt in a house in Yunlin County's Taixi Township, according to a CNA report. He wrote an SOS letter to his village chief, describing their poverty-stricken lives and the deplorable housing conditions they lived in.

The letter, dated Oct. 15, starts with a description of the boy and his family. He said he had been told that his mother, who is Indonesian, abandoned him and went back to her country soon after he was born and that he had been raised by his grandmother. He said his father was currently serving time in prison.

He wrote, “My family lives in a house that is more than 40 years old, has fallen into disrepair, and has leaking problems.”    [FULL  STORY]