Collab with Mazu for 2026 World Down Syndrome Day
Collab with Mazu for 2026 World Down Syndrome Day
2026-03-06
March 21 is World Down Syndrome Day, while the third month of the traditional calendar marks the sea goddess Mazu’s birthday. Taiwan’s Down Syndrome Foundation is now running a campaign that incorporates both occasions, teaming up with Beigang Chaotian Temple for this year’s visuals. Between Feb. 27 and March 29, a special livery featuring four deities—including Mazu, of course—will deck out a train along the Red Line of the Taipei MRT, raising awareness in everyday life.
An MRT train is arriving. This one sports a colorful special livery, but the surprise doesn’t end here. There’s more inside.
Tsai Wan-chen
FTV reporter
There are lots of cute designs inside the train car, such as this illustration of Mazu. Passengers can mirror her pose and take a picture interacting with her.
Member of public
MRT passenger
It changes often. I do take note. That way, I’ll know what events are on.
Tourist
MRT passenger
I like them. I think they are representative of your culture. I really like Taiwan and the MRT.
Taiwan’s Down Syndrome Foundation has teamed up with Beigang Chaotian Temple for this year’s World Down Syndrome Day campaign. The visuals feature four deities worshipped at the temple, including Mazu, Wenchang Dijun, Nezha and the Tiger Deity. Drawings by children with Down syndrome are also incorporated and featured on the Taipei MRT, taken by millions every day.
Lin Cheng-hsia
Down Syndrome Foundation ROC
In Taiwanese culture, temples are a place of gathering. We’ve incorporated temple culture with the idea of co-existence. We’re also inviting Beigang Chaotian Temple’s Mazu to travel north to Taipei. We also have a special MRT livery, so that everyone—from office workers, to grocery shoppers, to students—all the people who primarily take the MRT as a means of transportation, will get to understand our idea of co-existence, and thereby naturally become aware of Down Syndrome.
In Taiwan, the third month belongs to Mazu, as her birthday was said to be on the third lunar month. Discrepancies between the Gregorian and traditional lunisolar calendars aside, temples are getting ready to celebrate the much-loved goddess. The Down Syndrome Foundation will also host the Beigang Mazu before the annual procession.
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有搭有保庇! 淡水信義線 期間限定媽祖彩繪列車出發
2026-03-06
為迎接3月21日世界唐氏症日，唐氏基金會與北港朝天宮合作，在北捷淡水信義線推出期間限定的彩繪列車，將媽祖與文昌帝君、太子爺、虎爺等三大守護神請上車，穿梭城市，希望透過日常交通，讓大家貼近唐氏症議題。
捷運列車開進站，五顏六色的鮮艷色彩讓人眼睛為之一亮，不只外觀特別，車廂內也有小巧思。
[[民視記者 蔡宛臻]]
“進到車廂內還有很多可愛的設計，像是這個媽祖的插畫，可以讓民眾擺出一樣的pose，拍照互動”
[[民眾]]
“常常在改變，都會去注意，可以從這邊知道說，最近辦了些什麼活動”
[[外國遊客]]
“我喜歡它們，我覺得他們是代表你們的文化，我很喜歡台灣和MRT”
為迎接3月21日世界唐氏症日，唐氏症基金會首次跟北港媽祖聯名，繪畫出媽祖、文昌帝君、太子爺等守護神，還加入唐寶寶一起參與設計的畫作，希望透過每天都會搭的捷運，喚起關心唐氏症議題。
[[唐氏症基金會董事長 林正俠]]
“在台灣的一個文化裡面，廟口其實就是很多人聚集的地方，利用廟口的文化然後結合共融，然後請北港朝天宮的媽祖北上，那又結合了捷運的一個彩繪列車，不管是上班族啊，或者菜籃族啊，或者學生族，他們交通工具大部分，都是以捷運為主，那也透過日常讓大家來認識共融，那也讓大家很自然的來接觸(唐氏症)”
俗話說三月瘋媽祖，每年農曆3月也正是媽祖生日，許多宮廟也會展開大型進香活動，基金會將在繞境前安排北港媽祖北上，坐鎮宣傳，勢必也讓彩繪媽祖列車更受關注！
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