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The researcher, as a Han people, entered the indigenous tribes. In 2010, I stationed in Chong-De Tribe (where 90% of the residents are Truku People). For 7 years, what was once unfamiliar had become my daily life. Such experiences make me attempt to understand the reason of why I’m touched to root in the tribe. What issues in my life are connected to it? Thus, the researcher uses self conversational discourse as the research orientation, returning to the idea of self-growth and life for exploration. The issues in the study include: the needs that I saw in the community, the motivation of establishing caring site of community, the change after launching the caring site of the community as well as the changes to my life history. Through the organization to the life issues as well as the participation in the site of community, this study summarized them into literature for further interpretation and reflection. Via the study, my life and my daily life in the caring site of community are reviewed, and my true meaning to life issues is extended. During my experience in practicing for the site of community, it’s discovered through the research that tribal elders wither in a fast pace. The services for elders cannot be stopped nor be set aside. Although the local association of community is not prepared yet, the local females are trained in caring specialization to contribute in community. Particularly, the practicing experiences show that the caring services for the elders have been transferred into “co-effort, co-dining, and co-sharing”, and continuously moved forward.
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