Mobile Fan Maintenance Van

On one hot summer afternoon, at the entrance to San Yuan Temple in Matou, Tainan a small truck with ‘Fan Repair’ printed on the side pulled up.  From the temple broadcasting system the villagers were notified that fans were now being repaired.  Mr Huang who repairs the fans says he has been in this line of work for over 10 years traveling from village to village all over the area.  He also informed us that due to the economic depression and especially after the Typhoon Morakot disaster, recently many more people have been repairing fans in a bid to make ends meet.  He says repairing a fan costs a mere fraction of the cost of buying a new one, and so with people feeling the pinch his cost-saving and indeed environmentally friendly business kills two birds with one stone, giving him a wonderful sense of achievement.

Mobile Fan Maintenance Van (by CJ Claudia)
URL: http://www.peopo.org/news/59339

(以下為中文對照)

流動的電風維修車(公民記者 Claudia 報導)
URL: http://www.peopo.org/news/59339

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某個夏日午後，台南市麻豆鎮三元宮的廟口，停著一部寫著「電風修理」的小卡車，廟方廣播告訴村裡的人，這裡有電風扇修理的服務，請有需要的人帶來修理。維修師傅黃老闆說，他做電風扇修理己經十幾年了，都在村莊裡巡迴到處跑。最近經濟不景氣，修理電風的人更多，尤其是八八水災過後，損壞的風扇大家捨不得丟棄，都會等這部專屬的維修車來村裡。修理電風扇只收一點點成本的錢，但是電風扇修好後，黃老闆很有成就感，既節省又環保，一舉兩得。