PRESS RELEASES

December 2007

MIPRO Saves Lives

Tzu Chi Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 1966 by Dharma Master Cheng Yen in the impoverished east coast of Taiwan. The Foundation has been contributing to social and community services, medical care, education and humanitarianism in Taiwan for nearly 40 years.

As a volunteer-based organization, Tzu Chi's missions focus on giving aid and inspiring love and humanity amongst its volunteers and those to whom they provide assistance. Since its founding, it has been committed to charity, medicine, education, environmental protection, as well as the promotion of humanistic values and community volunteerism.

Because Indonesia sits on the edges of the Pacific, Eurasian, and Australian tectonic plates, it is subject to dangerous volcanoes and frequent earthquakes. The two latest unfortunate events were the devastating tsunamis killing nearly 200,000 people, mostly in province of Aceh and 2006 Java earthquakes that had over 5,000 casualties,135,000 houses damaged and an estimated 1.5 million left homeless.

Tsu Chi is no stranger to international disaster relief. Both times hundreds of volunteers were sent for assistance. One of the arduous tasks following the earthquakes was to find and rescue survivors who were buried and trapped under tons of rubble.

MIPRO's lightweight wireless portable PA system, MA-101, was an effective tool that was used to help locate buried earthquake victims. As power and electricity were out, 45 battery-powered MA-101s were used extensively by search and rescues workers to comb areas with loud, clear amplified sound for locating survivors. The rescuers used carry over a shoulder straps with wireless handheld microphones.

Twenty more powerful MA-707 wireless portable PA systems were also used for another needing application: crowd control for relief aid such as food, water, supplies and medical treatment during the crisis.

Thanks to its unique portability and amplified sound, hundreds of earthquake and tsunami survivors were located and later, rescued.

Eugene Chen, VP of international sales was highly pleased and touched to know our wireless portable PA systems were in desperate needs and able to assist and help in saving human lives during these disastrous events.