Baan Arsa Jaidee

The Thai Health Promotion Foundation, an autonomous government agency, in collaboration with civil society--ArsaDusit Volunteers, Thaiflood, and others--opened Baan Arsa Jaidee on October 14th, 2011. It has quickly proved itself an aggressive and responsive flood relief effort because it helps to coordinate dozens of existing civil society groups.

Baan Arsa Jaidee and its partners: mobilize volunteers; coordinate aid; deliver timely flood information; and deliver survival bags, food, medicine, camp toilets, life jackets and other assistance to the flood-affected communities.

The relief centre will close on 31/12/2011, as the need for immediate, emergency aid declines in many place. However, many communities remain flooded, and our partners are providing support and increasingly focusing on flood clean-up and rehabilitation. Support for partners, ThaiHealth and Arsa Dusit, is still much needed.

We will soon have an update on the final use of funds used through the Baan Arsa Jaidee coalition, and with plans for ongoing rehabilitation efforts.

Thailand suffers the worst floods in five decades. Heavy monsoon rains have led to severe flooding across 28 Provinces. Millions of people are affected. Over 800,000 have

already lost their homes. Hundres have lost their lives.

Floodwaters across Bangkok. Although inner Bangkok remains dry, protecting the city has come at a high cost: much of Western and Northern Bangkok have been hit by over 1m of water. Even as water begins to recede in some areas, others face weeks of inundation as water drains to south the sea.

Many people have lost everything, and desperately need access to food and clean water, medicine, toilets, boats and clothes.

This video was made October 24th. The situation has changed since, but remains very serious and continues to affect millions. For updates on the situation, please see our posts below.

Baan Arsa Jaidee

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