Community groups no longer fight alone – Building community alliances

In 2012, Nantou Division of the Soil and Water Conservation Bureau’s Community Building Project (社區陪伴計畫) stressed the importance of community alliance. After participating in the coaching program, Professor Hui-Min Chen (陳惠民) from the Department of Architecture and Landscape Design at Nanhua University (南華大學環境藝術研究所) commented that the project has brought together professionals from eight fields of expertise to help build bridges between communities. On 10th March, the allied communities of Yihe (義和) and Minghua (明華) from Dalin Township, as well as Jingpu (菁埔) and Zhongyang (中央) from Minxiong Township converged on Zhongyang activity plaza for a project-end celebration party. Participants not only showed off the fruits of their 6-month study period, but also enjoyed learning new skills from the other attendees. Professor Hui-Min Chen said that the allied communities of Yihe, Minghua, Jingpu and Zhongyang, located in the southern plains of Chiayi County, have been farming the lands for hundreds of years and become a quintessential part of Taiwan’s culture. Unfortunately, through much hardship over the last century a great deal of valuable ancient wisdom has been lost. These kinds of activities are slowly winning back some of the lost wisdom, and friendly competition between communities is providing strength to develop new emerging businesses.

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Community groups no longer fight alone – Building community alliances

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(以下是中文對照)

社造不再單打獨鬥‧社區聯盟正夯 影音

水土保持局南投分局101年度的「社區陪伴計畫」，強調社區聯盟的重要。參與輔導計畫的南華大學環境藝術研究所陳惠民教授指出：農村社區陪伴計畫共劃設8個工作圈，幫助各個社區共同凝聚共識及參與，3月10日，嘉義大林的義和、明華以及民雄鄉的中央、菁埔等四個結盟社區，在中央社區活動中心廣場，舉行計畫期末成果展，參與的社區不但各自展現這半年來的學習成果，也相互學習他人特色，陳惠民說，義和、明華、中央、菁埔等四個結盟社區，皆位處嘉南平原，百年來的農村墾荒史，也各自發展出文化精華，但歷經百年的歲月風霜，很多先賢智慧的結晶，因著時間軌跡的磨滅而殆盡，半年來，四個社區藉由彼此互動與磨合，成功串起消失的或遺忘的社區遺產，也藉由彼此的競逐，社區被強力激化而發展出極具特色的新興產業。