Taiwan donated US$265,000 to New York-based Helen Keller International on Thursday to help finance a trachoma prevention project that the foundation launched in Africa.
Taiwan’s representative in New York, Kenneth Liao (廖港民), made the donation on behalf of the government to Helen Keller International president Kathy Spahn at a ceremony at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York.
Since 2004, Helen Keller International has carried out projects in Burkina Faso in collaboration with the UN Children’s Fund and the WHO to weed out trachoma, an eye disease.
Taiwan has been the major financial backer of the trachoma prevention project, followed by Canada, said Spahn, who expressed her gratitude for Taiwan’s selfless contributions to the people of Burkina Faso over the past five years.
Spahn said Taiwan donated US$375,000 in 2004 to fund a three-year trachoma prevention project and contributed another US$469,000 in 2008 to assist the project for three more years.
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