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A year after devastating floods struck Hualien's Guangfu Township, a new exhibition is honoring the volunteers who helped the community recover. Called "Unite for Good," the display features rain boots, shovels and train tickets left behind by cleanup crews who traveled there from across Taiwan.
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00:00As a spell of rain slows down in Hualien, visitors are heading to a local exhibition
00:04honoring those who helped the town recover from a destructive flood last year.
00:09The exhibition, called Unite for Good, collected rain boots, shovels and train tickets left
00:14by clean-up volunteers from across the country.
00:17Over 500,000 of these so-called shovel heroes came to the area after a barrier lake burst
00:23its banks and buried Guangfu Township with muddy flood waters.
00:26Nineteen people were killed and hundreds were injured.
00:29A year later, memories of that time still have a lasting impact.
01:10The exhibition is organized by the Rotary Club and is being held at the Hualien Sugar Factory.
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