Send Love to Australia
Send Love to Australia – Spread Love of Taiwan
Date: June 17- 25, 2004


        At the invitation of Australian Children's Alliance and Queensland Government, Chou Ta-Kuan Foundation made donations to the public interest groups in donation with the proceeds from charity sale of the Chou Ta-Kuan One Leg (Australian English version). Previous winners of the Fervent Global Love of Lives Award and Chou Ta-Kuan Children's Ensemble consisting of 39 members, with "Love From Taiwan, Love For the World", sent love to Australia and played the music of hope.         Previous winners of the Fervent Global Love of Lives Award were involved in this dream-fulfilling trip of sending love to Australia, including Lu Wen-Kui (Warrior with Multiple Disabilities), Chien Chun-Yu (MPS Babe), Kao Wei-Chih (Cancer Fighting Babe), Hung Fei-Ling (Angel with Hearing Impairment), Li Jung-Yin (Cancer Fighting Buddha), Tsai -Wang Yao-Hsing (Armless Frog), Cheng Yu-Sheng (Fearless Girl), Chiu Chun-Nan (Squat Warrior), etc.
        Besides, in order to fulfill the last wish of the winner of this Fervent Global Love of Lives Award Lin Shu-I (Angel with Rare Disease) – Dream-fulfilling Trip of Embracing Koala, Chou Ta-Kuan Foundation invited Lin Shu-I's mother Lou Su-Hua and sister Lin Hung-Hsiu, who kept each other's company all the time, to tour Australia with a picture of Shu-I.

Chou Ta-Kuan Foundation-Send Love to Australia
        The important itineraries of Chou Ta-Kuan Foundation "Spread Love of Taiwan – Send Love to Australia Charity Events" included: Recited Chou Ta-Kuan's life poems with Cr. Campbell Newman (Mayor of Brisbane) and discussed life with teachers and students from the University of Queensland on June 18; lit up life with music – Send Love to The Royal Children's Hospital on the morning of June 19, and awarded the 8th Fervent Global Love of Lives Award in advance in the afternoon in order to encourage Kerry Bowden (Chairman, Australian Children's Alliance); held "Love from Taiwan, World's Love Charity Concert" in the Parliament House of Queensland in the evening -- shared boundless love with Peter Beattie (Premier of Queensland), Cr. Campbell Newman (Mayor of Brisbane), Yang Tien-Chin (Representative of Taiwan in Australia) and other disadvantaged groups from all sectors in Australia.
        On June 20, exchanged with Hope Ambassador of Australian Children's Alliance and Maori tribesmen at the Sunshine Coast; on June 21, visited the Australian Children's Cancer Foundation and Queensland Leukemia House and donated the proceeds from selling Chou Ta-Kuan's I Still Have to cheer up children with cancer in Australia; on June 22, visited Brisbane Women and Children's Hospital and school for disabilities; on June 23, Chou Ta-Kuan Children's Ensemble played well-known Taiwan folk songs for koala and embraced koala; on June 24, Chien Chun- yu (MPS Babe), on behalf of Chou Ta-Kuan Foundation, donated the painting "Underwater World" to Tourism Queensland and Sea World in Queensland, and the Chou Ta-Kuan Children's Ensemble played the music of hope again – having fun with visitors from around the world. Distributed English Version of I Still Have One Leg 
        According to Chou Chin-Hua, "Send Love to Australia" helped the distribution of Chou Ta-Kuan's Still Have One Leg (English version), which was sold for charity in Australia. At present, $1.51 million NTD was raised and donated to Australian Children's Cancer Foundation, Queensland Leukemia House, World Arts and Multi-Culture and other public interest groups to help Australians fighting for life, and communicated with disabled children.
        The proceeds from selling 2,200 English version of the posthumous work of little anticancer poet Chou Ta-Kuan I Still Have One Leg were donated to Australian Children's Cancer Foundation, Queensland Leukemia House, World Arts & Multi-Culture and other public interest groups in order to help people fighting for life across Australia and spread the love from Taiwan summoned by Chou Ta-Kuan. Fervent Global Love of Lives Award Ceremony
        On June 20, witnessed by all sectors of Australia and overseas Chinese living in Australia, Chou Ta-Kuan Foundation threw an evening party in the Parliament House of Queensland and awarded the Fervent Global Love of Lives Award to Kerry Bowden. Kerry Bowden promoted peace despite war, supported the disadvantaged with love, and passed life stories about world peace and hope with righteous cause, so she was affirmed by the Chou Ta-Kuan Foundation's 2005 Fervent Global Love of Lives Award Committee, and stood out from 1,727 candidates in the globe. Therefore, Taiwan and Australia worked closely to build beautiful world and future for the world's children.
        In her speech, Kerry expressed that the dream a person had was dream only, but "the dream we have will become a reality". Kerry, who wished to create a better world in 2015, appealed to people loving life around the globe to go beyond the boundary, race and creed and to achieve the dream of building a peaceful world for children.
        Kerry recalled that she learned about Chou Ta-Kuan Foundation and was moved by the life-loving spirit of the late anticancer poem Chou Ta-Kuan in last year's "Peaceful Hand" events promoted by Taiwan. She committed to realizing Chou Ta-Kuan's spirit of "loving life, and seeing hope from despair" through the efforts of Kerry's Peace Hall. Entertain Hope, Love Life 
        Chou Chin-Hua (Founder of Chou Ta-Kuan Foundation), previous winners of the Fervent Global Love of Lives Award, Tsai Yao-Hsing and other participants and the Chou Ta-Kuan Children's Ensemble were invited to Kerry's Peace Hall for exchanging opinions. The visiting mission pleasantly communicated with the Australian children's Alliance, Maori tribesmen and Australia, children and in the open hall covering 83 acres, left peace handprints at the headquarters, and planted a "tree of peace and hope" from Taiwan.
        In this trip, the visiting mission of Chou Ta-Kuan Foundation visited Australian Children's Cancer Foundation and Queensland Leukemia House in order to cheer up the children with cancer. Tsai Yao-Hsing, who lost both arms, described the misery and bitterness in life after losing both arms, and displayed the strong willpower of "leading a life with feet rather than with hands", and encouraged children with cancer and patients with cancer in Australia to entertain hope, love life and defeat cancer through interpretation. Also, Chou Ta-Kuan Children's Ensemble from Taichung Huei Ming School sang to and cheered up the patients with cancer who shed tears, a touching scene.
        Lu Wen-Kui (winner of the 5th Fervent Global Love of Lives Award) attended the event as a member of the Chou Ta-Kuan Children's Ensemble. Chen Li-Yu (President, Taichung Huei Ming School) stated that Lu Wen-Kui was a blind student with multiple handicaps, different from other blind students who could smoothly land a job in the society after overcoming visual impairment. However, she, from Paiwan Tribe, was talented in music, so the school planned to train him as an assistant music teacher in school, and let her communicate with other students in the same boat with "his own language". This visit demonstrates the vitality of Taiwan, and is of great meaning of humanism care.

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