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Taiwan Boy, Ryan’s mum takes over and dries him up before putting on new warm clothes.
Taiwan has begun to accept foreign aid to help the country recover from last week’s Typhon Morakot. Thousands of people are still being evacuated from remote villages. Thousands of evacuees took refuge in churches and temples in southern Taiwan on Monday, waiting for road repair that would allow a return to their homes. Some fear that could take months or years due to the state of the roads, damaged by massive landslides triggered by the worst typhoon to hit the island since 1959. The official death toll from the August 8 Typhoon Morakot stands at 123, but Taiwan President Ma estimates that it now exceeds 500 people. More than 35000 people in the disaster areas have been rescued, but thousands more remain stranded in the mountains over a week later. Hung Hu-chieh was evacuated from his village by a helicopter on Sunday. [ Hung Hu-chieh, Evacuated Villager]: “When the incident happened, there was no choice, all of our chickens, sheep were there, we didn’t have time to think. And we don’t have any chance to go back and take care of them.” Ch’iang Feng-mei, who had been in the shelter for two days just wanted to go home. [Ch'iang Feng-mei, Evacuated Villager]: “We still want to go home. We don’t want to have them always give us food to eat and clothes to wear. We don’t want that. As soon as the road is fixed, we will go home and see if our house is still there or not.” In Alishan, over 200 volunteers carried food baskets on their backs, which they planned to deliver to …
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