TAIWAN Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan’s Pingtung County in the August of 2009 and caused massive floods which led to many displaced families in the county. This program, Environmental Awareness on Flood, was organized to help the children of a certain school in this county learn better after the disaster with extra English teachers. I picked Taiwan and this particular project because I have a passion for education and assisting the teachers there with English teaching would be something I could do well.
Before I left Malaysia I did some research into the environment of the project and where I’d be staying, but it wasn’t enough to prepare me for what was to come. I did not land at Taipei, where the LC was. Instead I landed at Kaohsiung where the Typhoon had the worst impact. An AIESEC-er picked me up and I had a wonderful night staying in his hometown experiencing the local life immediately. For the first few days though, I met the AIESEC-ers often as they had come down to Pingtung County from Taipei to send the other EP. But because the distance of the LC from the project site, we did not see them much after that, which did not bother us much since we had been doing well and had everything we needed.
For more information: Jimmy | jimmy.kho@aiesec.net