Helga Jensine Waabenø (traditional Chinese: 吳平和; simplified Chinese: 吴平和; pinyin: Wú Pínghé; 22 April 1908 – 25 June 1994) was a Norwegian nurse and Lutheran missionary affiliated with the Norwegian Missionary Society in China.
Later in the autumn of the same year she was contacted by physician Kristoffer Fotland [no] working for the Norwegian Mission Alliance in Taiwan (then called Formosa).
She believed that there was a great need for missionaries to work among the large group of Mandarin-speaking refugees from mainland China.
Helga Waabenø arrived in Taiwan 23 December 1949 and began work at the hospital in late January 1950.
Her first report from Taiwan was printed in the Norwegian Missionary Journal in early 1950, in which she said the following: I find a lot of work and I am not bored.