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After Ivy’s passing, Chieh-san identified a meaningful way to honor Ivy while meeting a particularly dire need in Tibet.  Many of the tiny villages dotting the mountains of Tibet do not have the resources to support hospitals or advanced medical care.  So, when there are high-risk pregnancies and childbirth complications in these villages, the mother’s and child’s lives are at extreme risk.  In 2019, Chieh-san purchased and delivered a high-performance SUV for the Tibetan Maternal and Child Health Association (TMCHA), to help transport emergently sick pregnant women and children to local hospitals in the western part of Tibet.  Now, for expanded impact, the SUV is mainly used to transport village doctors and midwives for delivering free clinics, medical training, and childhood education to the areas surrounding Lhasa and Shannan City.  The vehicle is marked “Love, Ivy” and drives up and down treacherous mountains saving lives.