Project Report
| Aug 1, 2021
For a Better Future: Getting Our Community Prepare
According to international disaster response experiences, when disasters strike, it is essential to facilitate coordination between “self-help, mutual assistance and public support” (7:2:1). The ratio indicates the importance of self-help and mutual assistance in the community.
Community Self-help & Mutual Assistance Matters
The Mustard Seed Mission (MSM) has been providing community disaster prevention and relief since 2018. It promotes community self-help and mutual assistance and has cooperated with 24 communities to conduct
tailored disaster prevention training courses. Also, MSM helps the communities organize disaster mutual assistance teams so that they can clearly and quickly help those in need in the community during the disaster.
COVID-19, Another Type of Disaster
Since 2020, COVID-19 pandemic has become another . Therefore, MSM includes community epidemic prevention knowledge and measures into the course. In May 2021, within just one week, the epidemic alert level in Taiwan has raised from Level 2 to Level 3, and the national alert has lasted for over 2 months.
Getting Community Prepared
In June, MSM held an online video conference on disaster/ epidemic prevention with 20 community organizations (with 32 participants) that have completed disaster prevention training before. During the meeting, many participants shared: "After activating the community disaster mutual assistance system, we actively phoned the pandemic-affected families and knew that they have no income now. Knowing that the Mustard Seed Mission provides epidemic prevention supply kits, it is really helpful to us.”
For now, MSM has delivered more than 2,192 epidemic prevention supply kits to people in need all over Taiwan. We will continue to work on the building community disaster eesilience in Taiwan!
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