Rebuilding Hope With the Heart, Grandma’s Old House

Following the Typhoon Morakot disaster Ruili Village in Meishan Township, Chiayi County suffered heavy losses, with a massive drop in the flow of tourists.  Last year old Mrs. Liu Chen Yue Ying’s husband died and so she has had to face the influence of Typhoon Morakot alone, with the road to Ruili cut off, and guest houses deserted of tourists.  Fortunately ‘3014’, a group of youngsters who returned to Ruili on vacation and saddened by the bleak scene they saw before them, called upon 300 cyber friends to come to Ruili and help with the re-landscaping work utilizing bamboo provided by locals.  There were people from all walks of life including many young students and foreigners, who gave up three weekends in March and April to complete the transformation.  It is hoped that in the future the group can raise many events in Ruili and help to combine the local grassroots industries with tourism, developing the local tourist industry.

Rebuilding Hope With the Heart, Grandma’s Old House (by Domo Works, citizen journalist)
URL:http://www.peopo.org/portal.php?op=viewPost&articleId=54671

(以下為中文對照)

重建心希望 阿嬤的古厝(by公民記者 瞳夢工場)

八八水災後，嘉義縣梅山鄉瑞里村受到重創，觀光人潮不若以往，在當地經營民宿的阿嬤劉陳月英，去年丈夫過世，又面臨八八水災的影響，瑞里道路中斷，民宿門 可羅雀。幸好有一群由七年級生組成的「3014」團隊，重返瑞里旅遊看到災後蕭條景象，於是號召300多位網友上山幫忙，利用當地人提供的竹子，來作民宿 景觀的設計。這次改造活動吸引學生及各行各業、外籍人士來參與，利用三月及四月份三個週末九個工作天，完成民宿改造。未來該團隊也將為重生的瑞里舉辦各項 活動，將旅遊結合當地產業，發展在地觀光事業。

Note:
From mid April 2010, PTS’s citizen news platform PeoPo will carefully select three topical stories from each week’s news and translate them into English. This will extend the range of the service further, allowing an even greater number of concerned citizens to keep up to date with all the breaking news, the whole length of Taiwan.

備註：
公共電視PeoPo公民新聞平台，為擴大服務範圍，將自2010年4月中旬開始，每周精選三則公民報導翻譯成英文摘要，讓更多關心公民新聞的朋友，可以透 過PeoPo平台瞭解台灣在地大小事。