Full moon love – baker’s union delivers mooncakes to elderly people living alone

Touched by the plight of elderly people living alone, Chiayi County Pastry Business Association (嘉義縣糕餅商業同業公會) has established an annual tradition of providing mooncakes to elderly people at Mid-Autumn Festival. At the beginning of 2011, director-general of the association Wu Wan-tian (吳萬田) felt moved by the sad reality of many elderly people and started looking for a way to ameliorate their loneliness. He began asking pastry shops throughout Chiayi County if they would help by donating mooncakes for Mid-Autumn Festival, to which he got an overwhelming response; each and every shop signed up to the scheme.

During this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, under the command of current director-general Wu Jun-hong (吳俊宏), Chiayi County Pastry Business Association raised a total of 3400 ‘compassion mooncakes’ and Huashan Social Welfare Foundation (華山基金會) helped distribute them to elderly people living throughout the township. These small mooncakes deliver a big boost of festive spirit to seniors living alone, something many of them haven’t experienced for a very long time.  

Full moon love – baker’s union delivers mooncakes to elderly people living alone

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(以下是中文對照)

月圓情緣 糕餅公會愛獻獨老

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嘉義縣糕餅商業同業公會，有感於獨居長者生活孤寂，每逢中秋為這些長者們準備愛心月餅，已經成為傳統。希望藉由中秋送暖，讓老人家不再孤單，自民國100年吳萬田理事長號召開始，嘉義縣各糕餅名店愛心不落人後，紛紛響應。今年中秋，在現任理事長吳俊宏的帶領之下，嘉義縣糕餅商業同業公會，共籌得3400顆愛心月餅，由華山基金會分送到各鄉內獨居長者家中，小小的月餅，為獨居長者們帶來久違的佳節氣氛。