An exhibition of photographs in southern Taiwan that documents an international humanitarian project in Israel aims to show how humanitarianism can rise above boundary conflicts.
The exhibition, “Love and Care, Small Hands and Big Hearts,” is currently on display at Kaohsiung Medical University and showcases the hospital-based Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) project at Wolfson Medical Center in Israel.
The project was founded in 1995 with the idea of continuing the Jewish tradition of tikkun olam, or repairing the world, to save children with heart problems, regardless of nationality, age, color or gender.
SACH has since treated about 2,700 children, 40 percent of whom were from Africa, 49 percent from Palestine, Jordan, Iraq and Morocco, 7 percent from Asia and 4 percent from Eastern Europe and the Americas.
Some of the photographs in the exhibition depict the internal struggles of Israeli medical professionals who treat sick children from neighboring territories engaged in conflict with Israel.
One photograph shows a gowned Israeli doctor, with his arms raised, praying to God at a hospital.
Pastor Alex Cho, chairman of the Taiwan Holocaust Peace Museum and one of the organizers of the exhibit, said the doctor called on God after he was told to prep for emergency surgery on the grandson of a Hamas leader.
Cho said the doctor was in a dilemma because one of his family members had been killed not long ago in a Hamas attack. However, the surgeon managed to set aside his personal feelings and save the child, who had been rushed to the hospital from the Gaza Strip, Cho said.
The exhibition is particularly meaningful because it teaches local medical students that developing good ethics can be as important as learning medical skills, he said.
The exhibit will run until Oct. 15.
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