As COVID-19 has been globally wide-spreading, the Youth Home of the Mustard Seed Mission stays highly alert and follow up closely of the pandemic development updates by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Taiwan.  Routinely, in addition to comply with anti-pandemic policy, they have temperature measured day and night, as well as properly washing hands as frequently as possible. 

The residential care facilities are regarded as a residence hosting with a group of people. In order to lower the risk of cluster infection, MS Youth Home adopts anti-pandemic policy announced by Hualien County Government, which requires to conduct regular anti-pandemic scenarios exercise.  For a long period of time, the Mustard Seed Community Assistance Department has been committed to reinforce the core concept of anti-pandemic. Furthermore, the Mustard Seed Community Assistance Department puts special emphasis on quarantine when the cluster infection happens. 

For instance, by demonstrating lot compartment, quarantine wear and equipment, environment sterilization and supplies delivery will allow the staff as well as youngsters to be precisely familiar with and adopting the relevant strategy. As a result, they all can cope with and mitigate when facing the pandemic spread. 

Over the scenario exercise, youngsters wear gloves covered with color paint, so that they can easily discover the accidentally neglected areas when washing hands.  Practice makes perfect is the key.  Only via more exercises, anti-pandemic knowledge would be effectively developed while youngsters shall also play important part to help keep the continued zero infection records Taiwan has demonstrated over past months.

你要盡心、盡性、盡 意、盡力愛主 ─ 你的神。其次就是說：要愛人如己。(馬可福音12章30-31節)

You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your being, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this, You will love your neighbor as yourself. (Mark 12:30-31)