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Monday, August 17, 2009

DPP Volunteer Efforts Report + Pics

I have the report from the DPP in its July Newsletter.

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Dear friends:

We are very sorry for the delay of the July issue.

[Notes: Some of you would like to unsubscribe the newsletter due to the job changes. However, due to some administrative mistakes, please kindly tell us again your name and e-mails. We are terribly sorry for the trouble.]

DPP headquarters and local chapters recently have been occupied by the Typhoon Morakot disaster relief operations. Floods, mudflows and landslides...the worst in the 50 years. While most of the counties in the South are fortunately able to start the recovering process, the rescue mission still continued in the mountain area and Kaohsuing county with death and causuality numbers still raising.

I just came back from Tainan county with my colleges last night. We were the first DPP disaster relief team going to the South- some of us went to Tainan and the others went to Pingtung. It's a three-day shift and now it's the second team stationed in these two counties (Tainan team is lead by DPP Dept of International Affairs Bikhim Hsiao). When we first departed to Tainan three days ago, we traveled with three volunteers, but now there are 73. In Pingtung, there are also about 60 volunteers. DPP HQ just sent a new team to Kaohsiung county this morning.

Tainan county is slowly recovering now. There is no flood, but it still rains quit often. (I was told by my colleges in Pingtung that the rain is non-stop there so they have to work in the rain and their clothes are never dry.) We've delivered water, instant noodles, bread, cookies etc to the families trying hard to clean their house and furnitures covered with mud (they still don't have stable electricity and water supply). What worries us is the possible outbreak of the disease once the weather goes better (since the garbages still piling up on the streets and dead fishes and rottom fruits floating on the rivers). The next immediate task is to clean up the community.

I've uploaded the photos we took in Tainan at
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=34742&id=1253974525&l=c5c0736eaa

Your supports and help are great comfort and encouragement for us and those families impacted by the typhoon.

Best regards,
Hsiaoching Liu
Associate researcher
DPP Department of International Affairs
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1 comment:

  1. http://www.nownews.com/2009/08/18/142-2493180.htm

    看到蘇煥智消遣總統是皇帝的新聞,我差點噴飯。現在救災都來不及了,還會抓時間來噴口水,這種表現令人搖頭!噴的口水越多,縣民流的屍水越多。

    發生88水災,所有人都有資格批評政府,最沒資格的就是這些縣長。無論是國民黨或是民進黨執政,常常淹水的台南縣與高雄縣都是民進黨長期統治的地方。如果馬總統是皇帝,那麼你們就是海賊王,治理之下有淹不完的水,要當縣民可能要先學會游泳。

    楊秋興在颱風來襲期間滯留國外,當個落跑縣長,讓防災與救災群龍無首!回國後還想坐高鐵,完全狀況外,這就是地方「父母官」?鄺麗貞事件被媒體罵很慘,難道他都不擔心?!還是以為三立、民視全力攻擊馬英九就沒事?亦或是民進黨青年軍耕耘網路有成,網友都只會罵馬政府,縣長會完全沒事?同樣都是縣長,反過來看周鍚瑋,罵市長巡地方,表現令人欣賞,這才是父母官。我寧願選會反省改進的縣長,也不要選一個驕傲自大的縣長。選錯縣長只會讓紀念公園越蓋越多。

    88水災好比墜機,事後能救的人有限,如果平時飛機有勤於保養(環保團體給地方水土保持建議,不過度抽地下水與種檳榔樹等等,疼惜大地),飛行時機長不喝酒睡覺(縣市首長要在第一線,才能夠結合鄉里長的地方資訊回報給中央),事故發生的機率會大大下降,畢竟防災比救災來得更重要。

    PS:不要每次南部發生水災時,動不動就有人說你們北部坐冷氣房的人不懂南部……要怪就要怪你們地方的縣市首長無能吧~

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