In 25th March, 2013, Hong Kong PHAB (physically handicapped and able-bodied) Association calls on Eden Social Welfare Foundation for a tour of Eden’s accessible housing project in New Taipei City. Staff representatives of the hosting and visiting organization have both benefitted a lot from the face to face exchange of firsthand experience in accessible housing.

Among the 34 visitors from the Hong Kong PHAB Association, 7 of whom are wheelchair users. They are accompanied by Eden’s Specialist, Ms. Jin Jin Chang, also a wheelchair user, to the recently completed accessible housing project located at southern New Taipei City. With everything designed to meet the standard of a winning project in a national contest hosted by Eden and the city authority in 2011, the project impresses Mr. Kenny So, assistant manager of the Hong Kong association, and entices him to compare the many differences and similarities between the project’s universal designs and the practices in Hong Kong. The property is currently undertaken and managed by TSUEI MA MA Foundation for Housing and Community Services.

Staff member from Hong Kong PHAB Association experiences designs scaled up from a winning accessible housing project in a national contest hosted by Eden and the New Taipei City government in 2011.

Ms. Jin Jin Chang, Specialist at Eden, shares with Mr. Kenny So, Asssitant Manager of Hong Kong PHAB Association, her professional experience in the field of accessible housing and her expectations of the industry's future development in Taiwan.