[19.6.08]Donating before her birthday, Ella does charity on behalf of QQ

[2008.06.19] 生日前捐款 Ella為愛犬行善
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生日前捐款 Ella為愛犬行善

【聯合報╱記者袁世珮／台北報導】 2008.06.19 03:19 am


Ella為過世的愛狗做公益，送捐款到流浪動物之家。
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Ella前天過生日，送給自己的禮物，就是代表去年往生的愛犬薔薔，送130萬元捐款到貢寮流浪動物之家，還不忘向愛上「狗狗」的郭台銘喊話。

去年在愛犬過世後，Ella將思念與不捨化為「薔薔紀念EP」義賣，獲不少藝人朋友共襄盛舉，3個月的限定銷售期間，EP銷售盈餘100萬、數位下載10 萬、T恤義賣3萬2千，其他的EP義賣收入16萬8千，總計130萬元。18日當天，Ella穿上印有薔薔照片的上衣，冒著大雨到貢寮去。

單趟車程就要兩小時，山路繞得Ella差點吐了，但她一到現場，看到猛搖尾巴的「迎賓狗」，立刻一掃疲勞，不戴口罩、手套和圍裙，蹲下來就和狗狗玩。看到這麼多狗，她感慨地說：「薔薔，妳死得太早了。」

知名狗飼料公司受Ella感召，也捐出440袋飼料，現場堆得半天高，但Ella一問，這些量只夠收容中心裡700多隻狗吃2、3天。Ella於是呼籲：「首富（郭台銘）愛上了一個狗狗（曾馨瑩小名），這裡還有很多真狗狗需要幫助；馬總統家有馬小九，這裡也有很多馬小九的朋友，請大家一起來幫忙。」

原本Ella已經規畫好，要和朋友開個瘋狂慶生派對，但走了這一趟，愈覺得錢要用在刀口上，於是臨時將派對改為簡單的聚餐。

【2008/06/19 聯合報】

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Making Donation Just Before Birthday
Ella Does Charity On Behalf of Her Beloved Dog
[2008.06.19]

Ella celebrated her birthday the day before yesterday. The present she gave herself donating NTW $1.3M to the Homeless Animal Shelter in Gungliau on the behalf of Qiang Qiang, her beloved dog that passed away last year. She even sent an appeal to Terry Gou who fell in love with [Doggie].

After her beloved pet passed away last year, Ella channeled her longing and her yearning into the [Qiang Qiang Memorial EP] for charity. This act received many of her friends’ participation and support. During the three months of limited release, the sale of the EP made a profit of $1 million dollars, plus $10,000 from digital downloading, $32,000 from charity auction of T-shirts and $168,000 from other charitable sale of the EP, altogether totaling $1.3 million dollars. On the day of the 18th, wearing a top that depicts a picture of Qiang Qiang. Ella braved the heavy rain to go to Gungliau.

The trip, just going one way, took two hours. The mountainous route was so tortuous that Ella almost became carsick but when she arrived to the destination and saw the tail-wagging [Greeting Dog], her fatigue was immediately swept away. Without mask, gloves or apron, she crouched down to play with the dog. Seeing so many dogs, she sighed with a tinge of regret: [Qiang Qiang, you died too soon.]

A famous dog food company touched by Ella’s efforts also donated 440 bags of feed that piled half way to the sky at the site. But when Ella asked, it turned out that this amount was only enough to feed the 700 dogs at the Shelter for 2, 3 days. So Ella appealed: [The richest man (Terry Gou) fell in love with a Doggie (nickname of Jiang Yi Rong), but here are many real doggies that need our help; President Ma has Ma Xiao Jiu at home, but here are also many of Ma Xiao Jiu’s friends. Everyone, please come together and help them.]

Originally Ella had planned to have a wild birthday party but after this trip, she was even more convinced that money should be used for important matters, therefore at the last minute, she changed the party to a simple dinner gathering instead.