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Taiwan Church News 2666, April 6, 2003
Reported by Li Hsin-ren. Translated and rewritten by David
Alexander

   "Taiwan is my home!"  Though she will leave Taiwan in July to
take up college studies in the USA, Kaohsiung American School
senior Kate Alexander deeply loves this nation.  She is aware,
however, that there are many young people here who do not have
the educational opportunities that she has enjoyed. Moved by this
knowledge, she contacted Taiwan's World Vision social service
organization and offered to help in the "Love Taiwan, Let the
Children Study" movement.
   Kate is 18 this year.  She was born in Kaohsiung, and has
grown up there.  She speaks fluent Mandarin and Taiwanese.  Her
parents, David and Charlene Alexander, are missionaries from the
Reformed Church in America who work under the direction of
Taiwan's Presbyterian Church.  The faith inculcated in her at
home and church has given her a concern for children who, because
of poverty, cannot attend school.  She said, "Children who don't
get to study face limited future opportunities.  Their poor
circumstances are hard to change."
   This year in March she participated in her third "30 Hour
Famine", a program sponsored by World Vision.  She organized her
school and signed up 35 classmates to fast with her.  When they
were 10 hours into their famine, these young people went out in
public, hitting the streets near several department stores to ask
for donations and sell simple items to raise money.  Many of them
timidly used their own "not very fluent" Mandarin to ask people
on the street to generously contribute to help children who had
little opportunity for schooling.

For more information: Kaohsiung American School
www.kas.kh.edu.tw
		      World Vision/Taiwan
www.worldvision.org.tw

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