Qiaorong Elementary School

Qiaorong Elementary owes its very name and founding to charity: after a devastating 1959 flood, donations from overseas Chinese communities funded the construction of the school, which opened in 1960 (its name literally honors those "overseas Chinese," 僑, donors). Four decades later, the campus was totally destroyed in the 1999 921 earthquake. The Tzu Chi Foundation stepped in to rebuild it, and the reconstructed school reopened in December 2002 — a second act of communal generosity that gave Qiaorong its current campus.

僑榮國小的創校本身即源自於一場善舉：1959年八七水災重創地方後，海外華僑的捐款促成了學校的興建，並於民國49年（1960年）開校，校名中的「僑」字即是為紀念這份華僑善款。四十年後，校舍在1999年九二一大地震中全毀。慈濟基金會隨即出手重建，重建後的校園於民國91年（2002年）12月啟用——這是造就今日僑榮校園的第二次善心義舉。