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>3046 Edition

>July 12~July 18, 2010

Taiwan Christian AIDS foundation to open new home-style care  facility

>Reported by Chiou Kuo-rong

>Written by Lydia Ma

Taipei City Department of Social Welfare recently entrusted an  important 
assignment to

Garden of Mercy Foundation. It asked the foundation to establish a  new center 
that’d care for

>children aged 1~18 infected with HIV.

The center wouldn’t run like a normal clinic, instead,  it’d adopt a livelier 
or homier

management style. It’d also provide medical services,  psychological 
counseling, and social

services under the same roof – a one-stop service for children  suffering from 
HIV and their caregivers.

A ceremony celebrating the start of this new ministry was held on  July 10, 
2010, at Chung-

Shan Presbyterian Church in Taipei. According to Garden of Mercy,  the new 
home, christened

“Taipei Home of Kindness”, has hired one couple to serve  full-time and care 
for children who

>will live in the home.

Garden of Mercy has also been contacted by Child Welfare Bureau  and both 
organizations

are looking to start another similar center in Taichung area with  the help of 
another couple who

>will work there full-time.

According to the foundation, there are about 30 children infected  with HIV in 
Taiwan who don’t

have a home or parents to care for them. The foundation hopes to  provide a 
warm home for

these children and care for them in a home setting. Its vision is  to protect 
these children’s

rights, and take away the sting of AIDS and the fear of death from  these 
children’s hearts.

The foundation reminded the public that though these children  often can’t 
speak for

themselves, they’re just like any other children –  precious in God’s sight. 
They need love and

nurturing as they grow up and shouldn’t be discriminated  because of their 
disease, which they

>contracted through no fault of their own.

One pastor urged Taiwanese Christians to reflect on what  they’d done for the 
most

marginalized people in society and whether they’d attempted  to reach out to 
these people in

>their daily lives.

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