Typhoon victims' houses completed

The 50 permanent houses in Taitung County's Jalan Village is the first batch of some 1,200 homes that World Vision Taiwan, the local chapter of the international Christian charity, is planning to build in Taitung, Pingtung, Kaohsiung and Chiayi counties, some of the worst affected areas.

The construction work commenced two weeks after the typhoon struck in early August, and took four months of tireless labor to complete. It has transformed what was once a wasteland into a settlement now called “Jalan 88 New Community,” it added.

World Vision Taiwan has announced that it will invest over NT$1.4 billion from public donations in its long-term rehabilitation programs to help storm survivors rebuild their lives.

While most victims were happy to live in new houses, some seemed quite unhappy. A man named Wu Dao-yi complained that the government failed to satisfy everyone's needs, saying the authorities only built houses for households that possess a “doorplate.” However, Wu said that he and his wife had just built a house when the typhoon hit the area and they had not yet put up a doorplate. Wu was depressed that his house was blown away, but he could not get any compensation because of his lack of a doorplate.

Typhoon Morakot swept through Taiwan from Aug. 8-9, killing more than 600 people. The damage caused by the typhoon in parts of southern and eastern Taiwan was the worst in 50 years.

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