However, "we can't be sure that this subsidy, which comes from the Ministry of the Interior, will be available every year," says Chen Chun-li, an office director in the Nantou County Social Welfare Department. Nantou has already worked out an agreement with the charitable association, so that should the subsidy from the central government stop, they will still be able to keep the work going.
不過，「這筆來自中央內政部的補助款可不敢保證年年都會有」，南投縣政府社會科社會福利股股長陳俊利表示，因此他已跟慈慧協會約法三章，萬一中央補助款說停就停，她們還是得想辦法繼續做下去。