Help Taiwan Vulnerable Families Facing Emergency

Most of the families served by The Mustard Seed Mission (MSM) bread earner are engaged in manual labor or odd jobs for a living. The outbreak of the pandemic in Taiwan affects families which already struggling with financial issues. Once the bread earner in the disadvantaged families is tested positive, it directly affects the livelihood of the entire family because of being quarantined or the working hours reduced.If children are required to be quarantined at home, it would lead to more challenges for the family's finance, such as the extra meal expenses, and electricity; and the parents need to stay home to take care of their children which means they cannot work and get paid.

Xiaojie, one of the children supported by MSM, whose mother was unable to stand for long and was unable to lift heavy things due to illness. As a result, she can only do odd jobs to earn a meager wage. Xiaojie’s mother held three jobs. To Xiaojie, her mother is the strongest woman in the world. After Xiaojie was affected by COVID-19, her mother was also infected. Since they both were home quarantined, her mother was anxious day and night about the rent and living expenses!

Fortunately, social workers helped them apply for emergency relief funds and pandemic prevention supplies in the first place, so they were able to go through these difficulties.

MSM has a long history of helping vulnerable families in the community. When these families encounter natural disasters or family accidents, which lead to financial difficulties, we offer emergency relief funds to help them ease economic pressure and help them deal with the problems and challenges they may face.