Education Taiwan Project #32544

Diversified Learning Project for Placed Children

by The Mustard Seed Mission

Diversified Learning Project for Placed Children

Project Report | Dec 19, 2022
Boys and the Goose

By Hong-En Chang | Project Leader

When Typhoon Nissa

was about to make landfall...

In Mustard Seed Youth Home, staff and boys were busy with typhoon prevention... The geese of Youth Home ran away from home to the orchard next to Youth Home. Only one goose still stayed in the Youth Home and its body seemed to get sick.

A kind auntie waved her hands and helped us drive the runaway geese back to Youth Home. All the geese returned to the small pond of Youth Home, but the goose that seems get sick became weaker, paralyzed, and unable to move its palms...

Should we take the goose to see a doctor?

How much will it cost to cure this goose?

The staff contacted the veterinarians she knows and was with the boys to take the weak goose to the only animal hospital in Hualien that can treat geese.

The doctor diagnosed that the goose may eat dead fish so got botulism. Thus, the doctor asked the boys to do the things below:

1. Wash the goose first when you go home

2. Take care of the goose indoors and separate it from other geese in case it would be attacked by others

3. Spread quilts for the goose

4. Go to the store to buy chickens or ducklings food, and feed the goose 50 c.c. each time

5. Feed the medicine twice a day in the morning and evening

6. After 3 days, you could come here again to report and discuss the goose's situation

With the goose in his arms, the boy said slowly and leisurely that he is happier this year because he raised geese. It brings him a lot of fun!

Although we have to go out to look for runaway geese all the time no matter typhoons or rain; and sometimes, we even fall down in the pond while chasing the geese, we still let the boys raise geese.

Watching the boys rush in and out, following the doctor's orders and completing the tasks assigned by the doctor one by one. We know the boys' past hurt would be healed, and the inner power would be generated during the process while taking care of the goose.

At this moment, we deeply understand it is a life journey that we are encountering, and we feel it is worth all the hard work on raising geese.

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