Greetings from Taiwan!

Greetings from Taiwan!

To give you an insight into my AIESEC experience, let me first give a short introduction for those who have no idea where and what Taiwan is:) Its an island next to China, where most of the people are chinese immigrants of the x generation. But there are also indigenous people who mainly live in the mountainous area of Taiwan. That's where I’m right now! I’m living in a township in the southern part of their country, which consists of four little villages of each around 100-200 people and is quite far away from the city. Unfortunately, there has been a serious typhoon last year and destroyed many of there houses, streets and their beautiful landscape, which attracted a lot of visitors before.

The NGO I work at is therefore dedicated to help the people in different ways, by providing (financial or material) support, providing some work opportunities, improving the children’s education and physical/psychological condition. So far, it has been a quite interesting experience to live here and get to know the people and their lifestyle in the countryside. The villages here a very small, so within 10 minutes walking you have basically seen it. You cannot just go around the corner and buy some things you need or anything other than just some snacks and drinks at some little store. It takes at least 1 hour by car and through bumpy roads to the next small town and more than 2 hours to the city, consequently you don’t spend a lot of money:). If you are interested in more details, see you around back in Switzerland!

- by Catherine Trüb