It’s a little bit different when they work with people who are coming from their place. It’s like more we are closer, so they can tell you things that perhaps they cannot say to people from other branches. I feel the need that they should get this to allow them ...

That’s why by doing this, you’re really helping them to connect with their families but also to ask for help when they need. That’s why I think it is really important to do so. I’m glad really to be part of them because I’m from Indonesia, and most workers here ...

It’s difficult for them, the situation that they’re facing. Also, at the same time, because of lack of communication, they cannot get help when they need them.

Talking to them…I encounter many of them, some get problems, they share. It’s not inclusive or exclusive for them, but it’s most of them because their relationships are damaged because they have not a good communication with their spouses.

They go to work, coming back, stay on their boat, so their life is like that. Not so many people visit them, and they don’t have time to come to the cities, so this communication for them really important.

Perhaps we have an idea about their lives when during the time, in early 2020 when COVID started in Taiwan, we were not allowed to go out. That’ll give us sort of idea of how to be a fisher because most of them, they stay on their boats, living there. ...

I support this program because it’s important. The location, here in Taipei, our ports are all always outside of Taipei, located far away, and the farther place is like 90 kilometers, so it’s take two to three hours drives back and forth. Mostly fishers, they live in the remote places ...

I’m Father Ari, and I’m working here in MWCD, also doing Stella Maris services in Taipei. If Father Yance is in the south, then I’m doing it in the north, exactly the same thing. We do visits and also accommodate them, specially when they need things. When there is unpaid ...