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Taiwan Roots (TRMPC) Without Borders - Taiwan's first CoNGO member

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The first time I went to Dr Liu's 'Taiwan Roots' office in Xindian -  New Taipei some three years ago, these mobile clinics caught my attention.  I later found out the story of Taiwan Root 台灣路竹會 began with remote (by the standard 25 years ago) indigenous villages in the mountains. What prompted me to write this post is very simple - My plan to join a couple of more voluntary missions with Taiwan Root   during 2020 has officially and decisively been cancelled due to pandemic covid19. And an opportunity does not seem likely until well into 2021 and who knows ...  I therefore thought I ought to keep notes of the special experiences I had, in an organised manner for my own records at the least, and not attempting to bank on an unforeseeable 'next'. T aiwan Root 台灣路竹會  (since 1995)   http://www.taiwanroot.org 路竹 in Chinese means 'road bamboo', Dr Liu explained in ‘Readers' Digest' of 1999 January issue "Simply because during mountain visits of indig