To allow substitute military servicemen to care for and make a contribution to the community, from May to December 2010, Taroko National Park Headquarters will lead a small group of substitute military servicemen to villages near the national park to carry out environmental cleaning work. Since receiving an allocation of substitute military servicemen the national park headquarters has, in line with the government’s policy of using the servicemen to provide services that benefit society, arranged suitable service work for them, mainly cleaning work in villages, providing tuition to local children and donating blood efforts that have been warmly welcomed and praised by local people.

Early in the morning the servicemen can be seen, brooms, dustpans and plastic bags in their hands, energetically sweeping the roads around the village, even sweeping outside people’s houses as carefully as they would outside their own. They will work together and make every effort to give the residents a clean, comfortable and healthy living environment.

During their short period of national service the servicemen look forward to using the opportunity of performing the services arranged by Taroko National Park Headquarters to go to villages, get to know them and the locals and make a contribution to the community.

Translated by：Kevin Lax
Source：Taroko National Park Headquarters