Typhoon Morakot flood victims need your help

Taiwan Living in Taiwan
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This info was gathered online by Dragonbabe. Please add to or correct it as you see fit.

There are relief efforts underway for the flood victims. Please donate clothing, bottled water, food (especially in forms not needing refrigeration or cooking, e.g. bread, easy-open canned goods, crackers etc.), milk powder, diapers, sanitary napkins, and other basic essential items by taking them to or mailing them to the collection point nearest you. Note that victims may not have facilities to cook or boil water, so some collection centers are asking that the public NOT donate instant noodles and similar foods.

In Taibei:

  1. There will be collection at Liberty Square (presumably at the main gate in front of the Chiang-Kai Shek Memorial) between 7pm and 9pm each night this week. The organizer is Luke of PTT Net Friends (0988-270-489). Volunteers are also needed to help receive and box donations during and after that window. Bring boxes and tape too.

  2. Shih Lin Catholic Church
    No. 264 Zhongzheng Rd. Shilin
    Phone: 02-2832-4270

  3. No.74-1 Jinsi St. Datong District. (Near MRT Shuanglian Station)
    Phone: 25570658; Item collection will begin in the morning on August 10th

Jiayi (Chia-Yi) 嘉義 send to:
Putz City Administration: (05)3795102 #14
Send to: Putz City Administration No. 34, Guangfu Rd., Putz City, Jiayi County
嘉義縣朴子市光復路34號 朴子市公所

[b]Gaoxiong /b
Please send to the City government directly.
There will be someone to collect items until 9 pm.

Or mail to:
Kaohsiung City Government
No. 2, Sihwei 3rd Road, Lingya District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan 80203
PLEASE NOTE on the package that it’s for the victims of the typhoon and flooding.
If you can write Chinese, it’s best if you add it in Chinese or print this out, enlarged, and paste it on:

捐贈屏東縣政府以及南部其他縣市救助水患災區使用

Phone: 07-336-8333

Tainan

  1. Deliver items in person: Zhongzheng Hall, No. 36 Minjhih Rd. SinYing City, Tainan County (中正堂，新營市民治路36號)

  2. Mail to: Social Affairs Department No. 36, Fusi Rd., SinYing City (新營市府西路36號) 社會處收
    Social Affair Department: 0980537516 or 06-5115692

  3. World Vision
    8F, No. 243, Sec. 1, Mincyuan (Minquan) Rd.
    (台南市民權路一段243號8樓 黃雅詩) Tel.: 06-2215800

[b]Pingdong /b

  1. In person: Dapeng Bay Tourist Information Center 大鵬灣旅客服務中心
    Location: No. 69, Dalian Rd., Pingtung City Near Millennium Park (Qian1xi1 Gong1yuan2千禧公園旁)
    屏東市大連路69號
    Time: Till 5:30 pm.
    Phone: 08-7365600 / 7365012

  2. World Vision
    Pingtung City: No. 124, Hsingfeng Rd., Pingtung City attn.: Mr. Huang
    (屏東市興豐路124號 黃伯翰) TEL:08-7370483
    Pingtung Chaojhou Area: No. 60, Jieshou Rd, Chaojhou Township, Pingtung County
    屏東縣潮州鎮介壽路60號王南英督導 TEL:08-7806716

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And make sure you get signed or chopped receipts for any donated goods. Already stories are circulating about cunts pretending to represent charities who are accepting donations with the intent to sell them to flood victims.

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DPP is also organizing volunteers and supplies, should you feel like circumventing the government and helping directly. If you are down south and own a truck they would love to hear from you.

That sort of thing should be punishable by death… preferably by a slow drowning in raw sewage. :fume:

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I’ve just spoke to Luke. He said that it’d be better if you come with goods to send. They had about 200 people helping at the square last night, and it was actually quite enough.

Also, if you’re coming to help, please bring as many boxes as possible, and tape.

The collection is from 7 pm to 9 pm., but the boxing and loading of trucks will run later if if there are too many things to boxes and move to the trucks.

These goods will be sent to the collection point in Xinzhuang. So far they haven’t managed to reach Taidong.

I’ll post about where to send the goods for Taidong later, once I have the info.

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The latest word on donations is that canned food, baby clothes, milk bottles and milk powder are also needed (in addition to the above-mentioned items).

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Hello All,

I run a removalist company in Taipei and could provide boxes and logistical support. Is there anyone specifically I can contact to find out their needs?

Thanks

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Aside a 1 MM NTD donation which the company I work for commited too, extra efforts from all Staff has been made to procure goods as listed above. A bag of rice does not cost you a lot, so buy 1 extra when you go shopping the next days!

For those whom can read Chinese, following organizations are credible - decreasing any scam risks when donating…
(hopefully it adds value to Dragonbones list)

愛心捐款

單位
戶名
劃撥帳號
諮詢專線
備註

內政部
內政部賑災專戶
郵政劃撥：19595889
（02）2356-5225、
2356-5226、
2356-5224
請註明：救助莫拉克風災

內政部賑災專戶
中央銀行國庫局帳號：269981

信用卡線上捐款，可根據內政部網站（http://www.moi.gov.tw）流程操作

台南縣政府
台南縣社會救助基金專戶
台灣銀行新營分行 帳號：028038002387
（06）511-5692、
0980-537516
請註明：救助莫拉克風災

台南市
台南市社會救助金專戶
台灣銀行台南分行 帳號：009038061158

請註明：救助莫拉克風災

高雄市政府
高雄市社會救助金專戶
高雄銀行公庫部 帳號：102103031319

請註明：救助莫拉克風災

高雄縣政府
高雄縣社會救助金專戶
台灣銀行鳳山分行 帳號：025038095338

請註明：救助莫拉克風災

屏東縣政府
屏東縣政府社會救助金專戶
台灣銀行屏東分行 帳號：017038003667

請註明：救助莫拉克風災

國民黨
中國國民黨中央委員會莫拉克颱風賑災專戶
郵政劃撥帳號：50121464

民進黨
財團法人新境界文教基金會
郵政劃撥帳號：50121596

紅十字會
中華民國紅十字會總會／88水災專戶
郵政劃撥帳號：14341596

中華民國紅十字會總會／88水災專戶
華南銀行 帳號：1211-0007-7200

佛光山

郵政劃撥帳號：04632451

請註明：救助莫拉克風災

慈濟基金會
佛教慈濟基金會
郵政劃撥帳號：06887791

請註明：提供莫拉克颱風賑災專戶

法鼓山
財團法人法鼓山社會福利慈善事業基金會
郵政劃撥帳號：19577467

台灣基督長老教會
財團法人台灣基督長老教會宣教基金會
郵政劃撥帳號：19566285

請註明：救助莫拉克風災

台灣基督長老教會
財團法人台灣基督長老教會宣教基金會
華南銀行公館分行 帳號：118-20-079667-1

請註明：救助莫拉克風災

TVBS
TVBS關懷台灣基金會
郵政劃撥帳號：1972-4023
（02）26561600
災區學童急難助學金專用

家扶基金會
家扶基金會
郵政劃撥帳號：00224801
（04）22061234
若受災戶家中有18歲以下的兒童少年且經濟陷入困境者， 可電：0800 - 078585家扶專線
請註明：88水災助貧專案

台灣世界展望會
台灣世界展望會
郵政劃撥帳號：15752467
（02）2175-1995
請註明：莫拉克水患救援

物資寄送地點

單位
地點
電話
備註

朴子市公所
嘉義縣朴子市光復路34號
（05）3795102轉14、0923-100100

台南縣政府
台南縣新營市民治路36號（中正堂）
（06）511-5692、0980-537516

高雄市政府
高雄市苓雅區四維三路２號
（07）337-3374
請註明「捐贈屏東縣政府以及南部其他縣市救助水患災區使用」

屏東縣物資集中站
屏東市興樂里仁愛路98號（仁愛國小禮堂）
（08）7361114

屏東縣政府社會處
屏東市建豐路180巷35號
（08）737-8821轉501~505

台東縣政府
台東縣金峰鄉正興村105號
（089）342841

家扶基金會
台中市西區民權路234號12樓
（04）22061234
PC Home購物網，點選「買給家扶」標誌，網址：http://24h.pchome.com.tw

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[quote=“On The Brink”]Hello All,

I run a removalist company in Taipei and could provide boxes and logistical support. Is there anyone specifically I can contact to find out their needs?

Thanks[/quote]

Hi, yes, you could contact Luke of PTT Net Friends (0988-270-489). That is Taiwan’s largest BBS, a local version of Forumosa, if you will. It is a very, very large organization, and they have set up their own rescue supply effort. Tonight at the CKS Memorial, there must have been five or six hundred young people, mostly college student age, I’m guessing, plus the handful of old farts like me, receiving goods and loading trucks. I’m sure they could use boxes and logistical support. I guess you are fluent in Mandarin; if you need any help contacting them, please PM Dragonbabe.

EDIT: Sadly, one of the volunteers at the event has just posted that one of their relatives was on that chopper. :frowning:

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By any chance is there anyone in/around Banqiao that will be heading that way (Liberty Square or other locations) tomorrow morning or night with a 4- wheeled vehicle? I can donate far more than I can transport on a scooter or on the MRT.
How are they getting this stuff down there, DB? I hope they have some slick logistics (as much as one can hope for).

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[quote=“kage”]By any chance is there anyone in/around Banqiao that will be heading that way (Liberty Square or other locations) tomorrow morning or night with a 4- wheeled vehicle? I can donate far more than I can transport on a scooter or on the MRT.
[/quote]

I had the same problem, kage, so I bought a huge pile then hired a taxi to take me to the CKS site. It’s amazing how quickly four or five hundred eager young vultures can unload one hapless taxi!!! :laughing:

The Gaoxiong government is flooded with items, and is requesting cash donations instead, at:
高雄市社會救助金專戶 高雄銀行公庫部 帳號：102103031319

If you mail the needed items at the post office to the locations where the Red Cross is located in Jiayi, Tainan and Gaoxiong, the postage is FREE! If you mail goods to the Pingdong and Taidong County Govts., the postage is also free, but you will need to write down the contents and purpose on the box in Chinese, e.g.

救災包裹
. You can print that out and tape it on if you can’t write Chinese, btw. The relevant Post Office announcement is here:
us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch? … Inbox&YN=1

Slick, no. Volunteer truck drivers, rented or volunteered trucks and other vehicles (including a tour bus) and so on. Very piecemeal, but people lined up in the freakin’ HUNDREDS to help. The community spirit on display was truly impressive, and moving. They were setting up a caravan of vehicles to haul stuff. Medium to large trucks and their qualified drivers are DEFINITELY needed, so if anyone has connections there, please, please step up to help.

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T-cat shipping company has provided four twenty-ton trucks for shipping the goods to Taidong and other places!

Items still needed: (please send in sealed boxes, and also write what is contained on the box)
Baby goods (milk powder, plastic milk bottles etc.), adult goods (milk powder, diapers)
Sleeping bags, rain coats, flash lights, batteries, sanitary items (towels, tooth brushes, tooth paste), slippers
Cleaning tools (brooms, dust pans, shovels),
Personal sanitary stuff
Rice, canned food (easy-open ring-pull-tab cans preferred)
Instant food which doesn’t need to be cooked like instant noodles.
Second-hand clothes (especially children’s clothes), disposable underwear, blankets, quilts
Medical supplies (non-prescription, e.g. iodine, bandages, gauze, tape, etc.)
Cardboard boxes (medium and large sizes)

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[quote=“Dragonbones”]The Gaoxiong government is flooded with items, and is requesting cash donations instead, at:
高雄市社會救助金專戶 高雄銀行公庫部 帳號：102103031319 [/quote]
Confusion- does that mean I should or shouldn’t bring food and clothing to the Liberty Square/CKS tonight? Any word if they will still be there tonight? Thanks.

Dragonbabe listed some stuff that is still short. Here is my google translator service for labeling the boxes. It would be fabulous is a real translator could edit glaring errors. Thanks heaps.

Baby goods (milk powder (嬰兒奶粉), plastic milk bottles 奶瓶 etc.),
adult goods (milk powder 奶粉, diapers 尿布 )
Sleeping bags 睡袋, rain coats 雨皮, flash lights 閃光燈 , batteries 電池,
sanitary items (towels 毛巾, tooth brushes 牙刷 , tooth paste),
slippers 拖鞋
Cleaning tools (brooms, dust pans, shovels),
Personal sanitary stuff (sanitary napkins 衛生巾
Rice,
canned food 罐頭食品 (easy-open ring-pull-tab cans preferred)
Instant food 即食食品 which doesn’t need to be cooked like instant noodles.
Second-hand clothes 衣服
women’s pants 婦女的褲子
women’s shirts 女襯衫
Women’s sweaters 婦女的毛衣
(especially children’s clothes),
disposable underwear 內衣, bras 胸罩 socks 襪子
men’s shoes 男人穿的鞋子
blankets 毛毯, quilts
bed sheets 床單
Medical supplies 醫療用品 (non-prescription, e.g. iodine, bandages, gauze, tape, etc.)
Cardboard boxes (medium and large sizes)[/quote]

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TVBS is conducting a fund drive. CTI will have a concenrt benefit to receive donations on Friday. Several big companies have already contributed billions of dollars.

It feels good when we are all pushing in the same direction.

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[quote=“kage”][quote=“Dragonbones”]The Gaoxiong government is flooded with items, and is requesting cash donations instead, at:
高雄市社會救助金專戶 高雄銀行公庫部 帳號：102103031319 [/quote]
Confusion- does that mean I should or shouldn’t bring food and clothing to the Liberty Square/CKS tonight? Any word if they will still be there tonight? Thanks.[/quote]

What that meant was that if you are mailing things to the various locations given earlier, you should mail them to one of the other locations rather than directly to the Gaoxiong government, which needs cash now rather than goods. Other locations still need goods.

However, now that you ask, the Liberty Square/CKS location was also so flooded with goods as of last night that they are (at least temporarily) ceasing collection. So:

Don’t mail items to Gaoxiong.
Don’t take items to CKS.
Do mail items to the other locations above, and
DO donate cash to the above account (the Chinese line in the above quote).

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Huge thanks, again, DB and DB!

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Oh, just to clarify, the line about not mailing items to Gaoxiong was based on word of mouth. I would still go with sending cash by ATM or wire if sending to Gaoxiong, but what the Taipei Times is reporting is slightly different:

taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/ … 2003450951

[quote]Huang Chao-huan (黃招換), deputy director-general of Kaohsiung City Government’s Social Affairs Bureau, estimated that at least 40 busloads of goods were distributed to disaster-affected communities around the county on Monday and yesterday.
Huang said the city government was no longer accepting bottled water and hot food at the moment but was still accepting other items.

Tainan County’s donation center said it had received more than 1,600 boxes of bottled water but was in dire need of medical supplies, canned food and flashlights.[/quote]

So if anyone has contacts with or the location of a wholesaler of (for instance) medical supplies that could be ordered by the case, and can mail a case each of iodine, gauze, medical tape and so on to each of the listed locations, that would be useful. At the PTT event last night there was a table of volunteers recording the incoming items as they were sorted, and when I asked them what they were most short of, they said medical supplies. (Obviously the donating public doesn’t have good access to bulk medical supplies.)

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If you want to send cash from within Taiwan, I got the following info by calling the Taipei City Govt. just now (you may confirm the info by calling them at 1999 if you wish):

To send money via the post office: acct. 1889-8514
Specify the recipient as the 台北市政府 社會局 Taipei City Govt. Dept. of Social Welfare
State your name, address and phone
Under purpose, be SURE to write “協助颱風救災” or Help Typhoon Morakot Victims

To send money via ATM: 012 4117 411 131 181 442 (I triple checked these numbers)
On the ATM receipt, in a blank area, write your name, address, phone number and “協助颱風救災” or Help Typhoon Morakot Victims, then fax this to 02-8786-1499, then call 1999 to confirm that they have received the transfer.

I’ll try to dig up a SWIFT number and such in case anyone wants to wire money from abroad.

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Just saw a message from Michael Turton in Taichung that he’s going to try and organize to buy enough medical supplies to fill his van and drive it down to Tainan tomorrow. He’ll be at Fubar tonight if anyone wants to donate some $

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高雄市政府目前不缺 舊衣 舊棉被 熟食 乾糧

高雄市政府強力徵求熱血志工 晚間8點前都可來幫忙

請聯絡小龜市政府義工召集人：小龜 0922456341

Gaoxiong CIty government doesn’t need clothes, quilts and food now.

They need volunteers to help! Anytime before 8 pm!

If you (or your friend) can speak Chinese and want to help, please contact Xiao3gui1 at 0922-456-341

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兩台黑貓17噸車 1台遊覽車 4台3.5噸貨車 2台小客車
已將全部物資送往台 實際聯絡結果：目前全台物資召集都已經滿了
可靜待下一波災民物資需求回報

From PTT BBS, Emergency forum,

So far the collection point is full of itmes to be sent.

If you still have goods and things to donate, you can mail them to other places needed, or wait until things have settled down and send them in to places still need them.

There were two 17-ton trucks from T-Cat, one tourist bus, four 3.5-ton trucks and two cars at the Liberty Square to help transport the goods to Taidong!

Will update soon.