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Home>Service> Awardees of Fervent Global Love of Lives Award> 12th Fervent Global Love of Lives Award 2009> Blind but courageous - Kuo Chih-Hsiung
Overcoming visual impairs and desires to earn a doctor's degree
      Kuo Chih-Hsiung, male, was born on October 30, 1980. He's a student at National Sun Yat-sen University Graduate Institute of Education. Chih-Hsiung grew up in a poor environment and learned to be independent as well as being thankful. He became a member of social service organizations such as Gen Xin Society, the Guitar Society, the Blue Angels, choir, Sign Language Society, and Chih-Ching Club. He utilizes time after class to teach disenfranchised children school work, to lead activities for orphanages and also promote environmental consciousness and the love of life. With the successful model of counseling resource classroom at National Sun Yat-sen University , he created Nan Hua University resource barrier-free classroom page and encourage people with mental and physical handicap to connect to different web sites. Guo has utilized much social resources and promoted messages to help others.
      During his high school and university days, Chih-Hsiung worked as a part-time masseuse. Some of his clients were elites from different industries. During interactions with his clients, he learned to handle affairs, time management, as well as different areas of knowledge. He gradually walked out of the shadow and toward an optimistic life.
      Kuo Chih-Hsiung recalled that during the initial period when he went blind, it was extremely difficult for him to adjust his life style, his mentality and interaction with people. With his family's fortunes waned, he had to work for a living. That was why he studied and became certified as a masseuse upon entering high school and earned money to cover tuition and family costs. Although he was facing one challenge after never, he never gave up on his dream of studying at a high institution. During those years, the economy was in a downturn and everyone saved as much as they could; few actually required the service of a masseuse. Chih-Hsiung could not come up with the fee to register for the entrance exam of National Sun Yat-sen University Graduate Institute of Education and Prof. Chou Ping from Nan Hua University Department of Applied Social Studies (Chih-Hsiung's major) provided him with the money. Chih-Hsiung has been very thankful for the assistance and guidance of teachers and professors from different academic levels. Handicap cannot discourage him, but rather it has encouraged him to strive forward on the path of being a worker in the special education field. It is his wish to give back to the society with his skills and especially to contribute to the disenfranchised.
      In May 2008, Kuo Chih-Hsiung represented Taiwan to participate in the Guide Dog training in Detroit , US . It is our belief that he will lead the domestic movement of training guide dogs to help the blind and help many more visually impaired people to walk out of their shadows and embrace hope.