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In response to the call from DG Michael
Lee, 56 Rotary clubs in D3522 raised
NT$2,150,000 to buy masks for helping the
medical hospitals and units in Tokyo and
Kanto region, Japan. International Service
Chair PDG Venture Lin, Mask Donation
Chair PP Hipo Chen, and DGN Benison Hsu,
together with many Rotary members, initiated
fundraising, coordinated mask production,
arranged shipping process, and helped in
communication between the Rotary clubs to support Taiwanese to
in District 3522, Taiwan and District 2750, repay their aid in the wake
Japan and the diplomatic authorities in the two of the 2011 Great East
countries. On December 23, 2021, a total of Japan Earthquake and at
170,000 masks donated by D3522 was given to the onset of the pandemic
Tokyo Metropolitan Medical Association at a last year, when Taiwan
ceremony in Japan. donated 2 million masks and other medical
Chief Representative Izumi Hiroyasu supplies to Japan." Also to show their sincere
of Taipei Office of Japan-Taiwan Exchange hope to repay the previous aids from Japan,
Association once said in a statement in members in Rotary District 3522 labeled on the
Mandarin about Japan's donation of the AZ outside of the boxes of the medical mask with
vaccine to Taiwan: "We Japanese sincerely hope the words in Japanese "Thanks you Japan."

Rotary clubs donate container warehouse to place
3522
hand-cranked bikes for the disabled

Although polio eradication campaign and donating hand-cranked and electric-
has prevented millions of people from the powered bikes to the bicycle rental stations
crippling disease, there are still many people in run by Taipei City and New Taipei City
Taiwan who have been crippled, deteriorated, Governments. The goal is to enable the people
or disabled by polio virus, other illness or with disabilities to enjoy outdoor activities,
advance of age.
Rotary Club of Taipei Chungmei in Rotary
District 3522 has built connection with Life
Vitality Association through its community
services. The association is founded by its
board chair Chyi-Feng Chen and general
secretary Li-Jung Song in 2012. Both Chen
and Song are victims of and disabled by polio.
Cooperating with a group of volunteers, the
association has been raising funds, purchasing

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