Taiwan Typhoon Relief and Assistance Fund

Help Taiwan Typhoon Victims

Summary

Provide assistance to victims of Typhoon Morakot, which struck Taiwan August 7. At least 123 were killed, hundreds are still unaccounted for, and thousands were displaced progress reportread updates from the field

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The Fund is working with the Tzu Chi Foundation to provide relief to victims and survivors of the Typhoon and resulting mudslides.

Activities

Provide hot meals, water, basic cooking equipment, and emergency shelter to survivors; help in the recovery effort and rebuilding of houses damaged or destroyed in the mudslide.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $59,189
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $40,810
Total Funding Goal: $100,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Tzu Chi will help poverty-stricken survivors rebuild homes and provide long term financial assistance. Tzu Chi will also help rebuild schools and provide tuition assistance, and continue to provide emotional and spiritual care to affected residents.

Project Message

"We ran out of our house before the mudslide washed it away. For one day and night we had no rice, no water and our clothes were all wet. No one came to help us until a day later."
- Chih Shi-li, age 62, Resident, Chishan, Taiwan

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in TaiwanTaiwan and can also be found under Disaster RecoveryDisaster Recovery.

For more information about Taiwan, read the Human Development Report on Taiwan or the Wikipedia entry for Taiwan.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 11, 2009

Latest Update from the Field

Partnership With Tzu Chi Foundation

By Sheila Leonard - GlobalGiving Team Member, August 24, 2009 05:11 PM

With your support, Tzu Chi Foundation was able to provide immediate support and assistance to disaster victims. The information belows comes from their press releases and data:

Specifically, 80,000 volunteers provided and delivered:
• nearly 345,000 hot meals prepared by volunteers
• 150,000 sets of eco-friendly bowls and utensils
• over 40,000 boxes of instant rice/noodles
• 60,000 relief kits
• 8,000 sets of medical kits
• 4,400 people with medical assistance
• 40,000 eco-friendly blankets
• 26,000 households with cash assistance, averaging NT$5,000 to NT$10,000 per household (US$152.00 to US$305.00)

Not only did the Tzu Chi volunteers face the challenge of having limited water supply during the cleanup, some of the traditional homes were not reachable by cars, since they were located inside very narrow alleys. These difficulties didn’t stop the volunteers, who lined up side by side to continue their cleanup efforts. For example, the furniture in an elderly lady’s home in a secluded and narrow alley was completely destroyed by the typhoon. Many volunteers worked together and cleared out all the damaged furniture one by one, and cleaned up the old lady’s kitchen and bedroom.

The mid-term plan of Tzu Chi is to provide subsidies for poor families and students. The long-term plan is to help poverty-stricken survivors and evacuees to rebuild their homes and provide long term financial assistance. Tzu Chi will also help to rebuild schools and provide tuition assistance, and continue to provide emotional and spiritual care to the affected residents.

Thanks for your support! We will be in touch with more progress soon.

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