Special Post for Typhoon Morakot - Ways to Help

"Special" post, only because I'm supposed to officially be on break from blogging for a few weeks. See previous post below. Anyways, here's some information for helping out:

Volunteering:

• DPP Volunteering Recruitment Form:
  http://dpptaiwan.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/volunteer-to-help-with-the-typhoon-morakot-disaster-relief-efforts/
  
  
• DPP Typhoon Morakot Disaster Relief Webpage:
  English - http://helptaiwan.blogspot.com/
  Chinese - http://www.dpp0808.blogspot.com/

Donating money:

• Tzu-Chi foundation:
  http://www.us.tzuchi.org/usa/home.nsf/home/index
  (Paypal and Google Checkout supported)
  
  
• World Vision Taiwan:
  http://ei-payment.worldvision.org.tw/offering.php?offering=general&op=offeringitem&orgid=1
  (Not sure of payment method)
  
  
• The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan:
  http://www.pct.org.tw/english/enGnS.htm
  (Wire transfers and Personal Checks for U.S., and be sure to note the purpose of payment- for Morakot disaster relief)
  
  
• Taiwan's Ministry of Interior (For those confident enough in the government's relief efforts):
  
  Donors can remit funds either to the Interior Ministry's special account at the Central Bank of the Republic of China (account number 269981) or the ministry's Post Office account (account number 19595889), Lin said.

• For eBay sellers, donating partial proceeds from your sales:
  http://donations.ebay.com/charity/charity.jsp?NP_ID=33350
  
  
• Finally, there's a thread over at Forumosa on helping flood victims:
  http://www.forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=80983

Notable donations from political figures (as seen in this article):

Koo Kwang-ming (辜寬敏), former presidential adviser, DPP: US$913,000
Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌), former premier, DPP: US$63,000
Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), Democratic Progressive Party chairperson, DPP: US$30,000
Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁), former president, DPP: US$30,000

Wang Jin-pyng (王金平), legislative speaker, KMT: US$30,000
Sean Lien (連勝文), Taipei EasyCard Corp chairman, KMT:US$46,000
Wu Poh-hsiung (吳伯雄), KMT chairman, KMT:US$60,000

Totals:
DPP: $1,036,000 USD
KMT: $136,000 USD

Even though Sean Lien is not an official political figure, I gave the KMT the benefit of doubt and included him. Also, although Wang Jin-pyng is KMT, he's much like a Lee Teng Hui in that he's rumored to be a supporter of Taiwan Independence, or at least definitely not in support of unification. The numbers speak for themselves, even though the KMT is very rich, the DPP figures have out-donated the KMT side by basically a 10:1 ratio. Notably missing in the list? Your president, Ma Ying-Jeou, who although can't seem to find a way to help out the country he's the president of, managed to donate $6,500USD to the Sichuan earthquake. Ma Ying Jeou's actions speak louder than his words (with the exception of when he attempts to speak 台語).