Three months later, the Academia Sinica, the Hsinchu City government, and the Rotary Club donated NT $ 10 million for construction, and the tribespeople drew lots to determine the location and sequence in which their 41 new homes were to be built. When construction got underway in late 1999, an estimated 150 people, including a large floating pool of volunteers and 60 of the Thao, took part.
3 個月後，中研院、新竹市政府、扶輪社等團體捐助了 1,000 萬元工程費，族人開會抽籤決定 41 戶家屋的位置和開工順序後，1999 年底開工時，估計有 150 人（包括不少來來往往的志工）參與，其中 60 人為邵族族人。