Since being initiated in October of 2003, the CCRA emergency relief program "has helped in a total of nearly 400 cases in our area in Southern Taiwan as of the end of September of 2006," says Kuo. While most involve classic problems of the elderly, handicapped, and single parents, there are more and more cases such as that of the Wu family involving a slide downward from the middle.
民間組織「中華基督教救助協會」的急難家庭計畫，2003 年 10 月開辦以來，「到 2006 年 9 月為止，我們南區一共輔導了將近 400 件個案，」郭鳳保說，除了老、殘和單親等典型弱勢外，類似吳家這種由中間跌下的家庭愈來愈多。