財團法人張榮發慈善基金會

台北醫學大學楓杏醫療義診隊成立七年，為提升偏鄉醫療水準，結合各醫院自願服務之醫師，長期辦理義診服務及醫學知識推廣。

張榮發慈善基金會於8/2至澎湖白坑、紅羅村，參與台北醫學大學楓杏服務隊之義診活動此服務開辦僅4年，但因績效良好已獲國際傑人會、青輔會等獎項肯定。

北醫學大學民國七十七年，由林杰樑醫師成立綠十字醫療服務隊，每年寒暑期皆前往雲林沿海4個鄉鎮（近年為臺西鄉、四湖鄉、口湖鄉、水林鄉），進行醫療巡迴服務。

Founded 11 years ago, Taipei Medical University Social Service Team (TMU Team) has been conducting free consultation services and promotion of medical knowledge in order to upgrade the medical standards in rural areas. The TMU Team was awarded one of the Top 10 Service Groups of Outstanding Youths Prize by the Distinguished Citizens Society of R. O. C., Excellence prize under the national university club evaluation, and Championship under the health service category by the Youth Overseas Peace Corps of Youth Development Administration, and many other honors.

To help disadvantaged patients/families with burn injuries in Hualian and Taitung and allow patients with burn injuries to focus on their rehabilitation minus any stress, the Foundation on August 19 donated NT$250,000 towards Sunshine’s rehabilitation service for patients with burn injuries to help them along the lengthy path towards recovery.

This year, since the severe pandemic breakout, many social welfare groups are seeing a huge decline in donations, and many more disadvantaged families are put on wage-less leave, suffering from job loss or reduced income. But Chang Yung-Fa Charity Foundation, in the spirit of “feeling the pain as if it’s your own pain”, has reached out in time and helped the social welfare groups to keep their front-line services running to take care of the overlooked disadvantaged families due to the pandemic.

Hsinchu County Lovely Angel Voice Association was founded by parents of children with hearing impairment and those with a loving heart to care for and assist with the education and employment of children with hearing impairment as well as providing them with early intervention in Hsinchu areas.

Kids Alive International Christian Care for Children at Risk, (Kids Alive), based in Beinan Township, Taitung County, mainly cares for children from abusive or dysfunctional families or families undergoing dramatic incidents and having no support or low income. The economy being unfavorable that donations were reduced, the Kids Alive in Taitung County had to tighten their budgets. The foundation then sponsored ophthalmology consultation at their premises by inviting Chang Gung Memorial Hospital’s ophthalmology team to help with vision screening and correction.

The urban/rural medical resources gap has been a thorny problem for the government and the private NPO sector. Folks in rural areas often wait till their medical conditions reach a critical urgent state before seeking treatment, which somehow causes more suffering and could incur more cost on the entire medical system. In recent years, the Digital Humanitarian Association (DHA) have been trying to improve this phenomenon through the remote online health promotion scheme with startling excellent results. On December 6, the Foundation chairman, Wu Jing-Ming, led a delegation to Malipa Tribe in Renai Township in Natou Township to conduct a remote health care session. The elders on site were all very active in asking online doctors about their own health problems, which were all professionally answered. There was a positive interaction plus good health promotion results.

Burn injury rehabilitation is a slow and lengthy process, a courageous battle against scars and pain that requires all kinds of medical treatment, rehabilitation and assistive device and faces stares from other people. Hualian and Taitung are so far out that it causes extra obstacles for rehabilitation, plus insufficient medical care and health and education resources and time-consuming transport which are all posing challenges on top of challenges for those with burn injuries.

Chang Yung-Fa Charity Foundation has long been dedicated to the care for social welfare groups across Taiwan and noticed that elders in most remote areas often neglected their own health due to lack of health knowledge or living in remote areas. As such, the Foundation, Digital Humanitarian Association and WaCare (Remote Online Health Promotion Scheme) worked together to sponsor 10 community long-term care stations utilizing technology to solve the problem of insufficient health promotion resources in remote areas.

The Chang Yung-Fa Charity Foundation has been helping disadvantaged families throughout Taiwan for a long time and found that many children with developmental delays or mental and physical disabilities in rural areas often miss the golden opportunity of early intervention due to insufficient medical resources for early detection and treatment.