駐緬甸代表處於1月31日除夕當天中午與緬甸一家慈善機構合作，在仰光市北達貢鎮區（North Dagon Township)提供一千份免費午餐給當地弱勢居民享用，協助他們在疫情與政情雙重嚴厲挑戰的情況下，免於飢餓。
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Myanmar, in collaboration with a charity organization, sponsored 1000 lunch meals to the less privileged residents in North Dagon Township, Yangon City on January 31, 2022, the Lunar New Year’s eve.
李朝成大使當日中午在現場瞭解領取午餐作業情形，看到民眾先領餐券，再前往領餐、入座用餐，餐畢自行將餐具放置到指定地方，井然有序。駐緬甸代表處自1月17日首度在仰光市中心與慈善機構合作發放午餐之後，迄已接到幾位不願具名的善心人士捐助相當數額的善款，希望駐緬甸代表處代為安排贊助午餐事宜。李朝成大使除了衷心感謝他們的善行義舉之外，也歡迎各方踴躍聯繫不同慈善團體，以各種合作方式提供贊助，幫助更多緬甸民眾度過經濟難關。
Ambassador Charles Li was present to witness how the local residents collect food vouchers, queque for rice bowls with food, clear table and bring bowls to the designated place in an orderly way. TECO sponsored meals on January 17 in downtown Yangon with a Buddhist Monastery. Since then Ambassador Li has been approached by benevelent donors with millions of Kyats donations with an aim to join forces together on an anonymous basis. Ambassador Li expressed gratitude to those donors and pledged to arrange sponsorship for free meals in an accountable way so that the less privileged people could overcome economic difficulties.
這家路邊簡易攤販的創辦人Ko Nay Turein說，2021年10月18日開張時，就是因為有很多人跟他反應無力支付餐費，所以他決心排除萬難，在其自有土地上每日提供緬幣五百元的午餐，受到廣大低收入民眾的歡迎。陸續有幾家攤販要求在旁邊販售食品，他都同意，但是要求售價必須低於緬幣五百元，以減輕民眾經濟負擔。據表示，近期更接獲許多贊助，讓他們能夠以永續方式協助更多需要的民眾。
The owner of the low-cost lunch restaurant, Ko Nay Turein, began his meal service on October 18, 2021 on his personal piece of land after he had been told by many local people that they could not even afford a proper meal with shrinking wages. Therefore, he offers a rice bowl with meat and vegetable at the cost of Ks500 to help relieve local residents’ economic burden on food. Recently this charity receives more and more sponsorships like that from the TECO today to help them sustain this meaningful service.
這項低價午餐的創舉，吸引多位善心人士在不同鎮區以類似的方式發放午餐，也有以全部免費的方式供餐，義行令人敬佩！當華人社會洋溢在農曆新年的歡樂氣氛中，駐緬甸代表處決定以最直接、有效的方式，代表台灣的人民的心意，幫助一千位弱勢緬甸民眾有一日溫飽，也歡迎各界人士踴躍提供贊助或自行發放餐點，回饋緬甸社會。
This initiative has since received warm feedback and similar charities follow suit, some even offer free meals! When people in Myanmar, and all over the world, are celebrating Lunar New Year, the TECO in Myanmar, as a token of the frienship and goodwill of the people in Taiwan, decided to sponsor 1000 free meals to the needy people in a direct and effective way with the hope that more sponsorships will follow in different forms.
