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Taiwan Labor Concern: 2016 Year-End Update

1/6/2017

 
December 30, 2016​
​Dear supporters,
Your prayers and financial offerings are much appreciated. Here are some pictures of current ministry activities. May God be with you and your household in the coming year.
Charlie and Mary
Taiwan
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Christmas celebration at the ministry center
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Evangelizing to female workers at the detention center

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Taiwan Labor Concern: Caring for Migrant Workers in Taiwan

11/22/2016

 
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Migrant workers at a shelter wait to be picked up for church. (Photo courtesy of the Dangs)
By Charlie and Mary Dang

​C&MA International Ministries assigned us to serve in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. As we began to minister among the Vietnamese diaspora, we felt God leading us to rent a ministry center. Its location is close to an industrial park where many migrant workers reside—thus we began reaching these people.

More than 630,000 migrant workers are in Taiwan. Wishing to provide for their families, they come from Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and other countries in the region. They are easy targets for brokerage agencies that seek to deceive and lure them with promises of attractive salaries, benefits, and overtime pay.

These young people eagerly sign work contracts; however, they have no money to pay expensive brokerage fees. So they take loans from a bank or money lender, hoping that one day they will save enough to pay the debt.

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Taiwan Labor Concern: Prayer Requests August 2016

8/24/2016

 
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1) 4-Year-Old Girl's Heart Defect

Please intercede for a sister named Tuyet-Minh and her 4-year old daughter. The child's heart has not just one septal defect but two. Doctors have advised surgery. Tuyet-Minh and her husband are concerned about the operation and the cost of the related medical fees. Tuyet-Minh is usually self-reliant, but her daughter's health situation has made her depend more on God's strength. May God be compassionate upon the child's medical condition and draw the mother closer to Him.

2) Ministry Access to Detention Centers

Two detention centers still remain inaccessible to Christian evangelism and care-giving. The present warden is believed to be anti-Christian; thus, he's ordered to turn away missionaries who come to visit the migrant workers. Missionaries believe most inmates are victims of labor exploitation and abuse. Please pray that God will change the situation so the hurting people will have a chance to respond to God's salvation and get the needed help.

Thanks for your prayers and support!

Mid-Year Grant Report: Taiwan Labor Concern

7/5/2016

 
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Grant Outcome Summary

​The grant supplied by Transparent Fish Fund was used to provide practical care to the neediest migrant workers at the shelter. This care is shown through providing nutritious meals, clothes, sandals, phone cards, transportation assistance, and activities.

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Taiwan Labor Concern: Project Update

6/8/2016

 
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Praise: Job Provided for Hýõng

Again, praise the Lord for his answer to our prayers. Last time Hýõng pleaded in prayer for a job. Within a few days, she found one. The experience really strengthened her trust in the Lord.

​Upon leaving for the workforce, she reminded us to provide the phone number and address of the church near her factory.

Prayer Request: Healing and Jobs for New Group

Please pray for another group of workers that just arrived at the shelter. So many workers are mistreated, and as they suffer, their families back home also suffer.

For example, three men were illegally assigned to work at a big restaurant and were forced to work from 
5am to 8pm with no breaks. They were paid 12,000 NTD (a little less than $400 USD).

Another example is a lady who just left the shelter to care for an elderly man. The elderly man just liked to sleep in the same room with her and took his clothes off. She couldn't take it and went back to a shelter at a different location.

Stories similar to these abound. These migrant workers not only need jobs, but far more than that, they need God to heal their hurts and wounds.

Mid-Year Grant Report: Taiwan Labor Concern

3/24/2016

 
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Caring for Migrant Workers

Throughout the island of Taiwan, there are 5 detention centers with approximately 200 migrant workers housed in each one. Many of the workers are victims of exploitation and various kinds of abuse by brokerage agencies and employers. As a result, they willfully leave contracted jobs and find work elsewhere. Sooner or later, they get caught and are transferred to detention centers. They stay there for about 4 months while waiting for their legal documents to be recovered, and then they return to their home countries. 

The Christian and Missionary Alliance  goes into the detention centers to evangelize, counsel, and care for the migrant workers' basic needs. As the laborers stay at the shelter and wait for offers on new jobs, they have no source of income. The grant we have given to the Taiwan Labor Concern program enables the migrant workers to have sandals, soap bars, toothbrushes, toothpaste, towels, coffee, tea, snacks, weekly meals, telephone cards, and ferry and subway tickets. As care is shown to them in practical ways, these hurting workers have responded in attending weekly activities and church meetings.

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