Hearing the calls of help, and offering assistance, from the Newspapers, translated…
Five Years Ago, the Man in Charge of the Sandy Bay Borough Mentioned of the Elderly’s Needs, the Captain of the Coastguard Went All Out, “Visiting the Elders”, Placing the Deed at the Top of the Team Members’ To-Do List, and, the Deeds Were Passed Down
“Grandpa, I’m here to deliver your lunch!”, the echoes of care and concerns did not come from the social workers who visited the elderly who lived alone, but from the members of the coastguard. The Second Team of the Northern Watch Group of the Coastguard other than conducting rescues, they also have a hidden mission, making meal deliveries to the elderly who lived alone near the headquarter, all year long.
The place where the headquarter is located has a lot of elderly who live alone, poor, and without anybody to look out for them, five years ago, the chief back then, Lo, the recruiting officer, Ni, and the man in charge of the Sandy Bay Borough, Chien were on good terms in their interactions, the chief captain back then saw that there is ample resources and manpower, and had listed “visiting with the elderly who lived alone” as a mission of the team members of the coastguard.
And since, the act was passed down from generation to generation, the soldiers’ deliveries of the meals never stops, becoming a folklore that’s passed locally.
At 11:30 at noon, 5:50 in the afternoon, the two team members from the active-in-duty walked out from the headquarters, and reported for “duty” right on time, at the elderly’s doorsteps, handing them a hot-off-the-stove meal. And the meals are from the extra portions from the lunches that the cooks at the naval headquarters, in five years, they’d helped out thirty to forty households.
And so, this is, a group of men who had cared so much about the people in the area that they’d gone out of their ways, to make the meals, and then, delivered to the elderly population who lived alone on their own, warming up their lives.
not my photograph…
Life, the Obstacle Course 