August 24, 2009

On August 21, Wu Den-yih, KMT Vice Chairman and Secretary-General, said that the KMT had raised MT$ 50.5 million in its first wave of fund-raising, and had wire-transferred the funds to the disaster relief bank account of the Interior Ministry in the morning of the same day.

As to how the NT$ 50.5 million donation would be used, Wu said that the KMT designated NT$ 36 million for use in the typhoon-devastated towns such as Jiaxian Rural Township, in the hope that the villagers in those towns could directly and effectively make good use of the donation to help them rebuild their home as soon as possible. The other NT$ 14.5 million would be left to the discretion of the Interior Ministry for disaster relief.

The aforementioned NT$ 36 million would be distributed to the following counties: 1) NT$ 2 million for Nantou County, 2) NT$ 5 million for Chia-Yi County, 3) NT$ 8 million for Tainan County, 4) NT$ 8 million for Kaohsiung County (including NT$ 3.5 million for Jiaxian Rural Township), 5) NT$ 8 million for Pingtung County (including NT$ 3.2 million for Linbian Township), and 6) NT$ 5 million for Taitung County.

On August 23, KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung led a delegation of KMT party senior executives to attend the funeral service held for Wang Tsung-li, the helicopter pilot who died in a crash during a rescue mission from an aboriginal tribe of Wutai Rural Township in southern Pintung County. Chairman Wu subsequently went to the Fo Guang Shan shelter for Typhoon Morakot victims to hand over NT$ 500,000 for food subsidies. Chairman Wu donated NT$ 1 million for rebuilding Hsiao Lin village, and asked KMT legislator Chung Shao-ho to hand over the funds. What is more, Chairman Wu also asked the KMT party chapter of Kaohisung County and KMT members of the local deliberative council to hand over NT$ 1.5 million to another 25 shelters for victims of Typhoon Morakot in Kaohsiung County.

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