Six years after the reconstruction of Shanlin Da'ai Village, what happened later?
Once grandly completed, Kaohsiung's "Shanlin Daaivillage" - backed by a charitable organization and guaranteed by the government - is one of 3 large permanent housing clusters built by the Tzu Chi Foundation after Typhoon Morakot. The Morakot survivors were originally mostly indigenous people and farmers, with diverse and mixed ethnicities and beliefs, and lacked a foundation of emotional mutual trust from the start; after leaving the land, they could not find a way to make a living. Even though over the past 6 years the government has trained skills through various courses, they often fell into a vicious cycle of the subsidy ending, classes stopping, and starting over again. Many years after the typhoon, residents still live in a state of residence with no job opportunities and unclear prospects.
The few who escaped this cycle of fate, the Shanlin Daai Sewing Production Cooperative 