00:00Parents in flood-stricken Guangfu Township in eastern Taiwan's Hualien County
00:10raised their voice as school staff,
00:12questioning their children's safety and quality of education.
00:16Dajing Elementary School became an evacuation center
00:19after the region was flooded by a mountain lake that bursts its banks.
00:23But after two weeks of cleanup efforts, it's welcoming students back,
00:27with one caveat, that they share their campus with over 170 flood victims still staying there.
00:34The school and the county officials say the students and evacuees are separated on either side of the campus,
00:40and only teachers are allowed to enter the students' areas.
00:43In this difficult period of time, we can provide time for the students.
00:49We will allow the students to give the students to the students.
00:54Taiwan's cabinet is also rolling out a service to make it easier for Guangfu residents to apply for subsidies
01:00to make it through this trying time and to reapply for lost identification documents.
01:05We will allow all the students to submit a request.
01:09All the central support, the state's support,
01:12the relevant work of the department, are all簡化.
01:15This is called a platform of one-planning service.
01:17Officials say all villages within the red-lined evacuation zone are eligible for financial compensation,
01:23including some areas that were not flooded.
01:26But this is sparking anger from peripheral villages further south.
01:30Residents there say, while their homes were not buried in mud,
01:34their lives have been deeply affected.
01:35As of Tuesday, the death toll remains at 18, with six people still missing.
01:55Officials are also asking volunteers to be careful while working on wreckage,
01:59after one volunteer died when a wound got infected.
02:02With a long road to recovery still expected,
02:06officials and locals are taking it one step at a time,
02:09with everyone's safety a top priority.
02:11Patrick Chen and Irene Lin for Taiwan Plus.
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