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.

Details of recent donations made specifically with funds from this website, Thailandflood.org and from carwash fundraisers:

23/11/2011 - Currently on order in response to requests made by flood evacuation centres:
• Plastic wading pants (200 pairs to be shared by women in ~10 communities to reduce infections resulting from exposure to contaminated water) = 50,000 Baht
• Canned fish = 30,000 Baht
• Rice = 60,000 Baht
• Cucumbers = 10,000 Baht

15/11/2011 - Goods delivered to Burmese migrant workers trapped in a factory north of Bangkok and unable to return home:
• Assorted food goods = 70,000 Baht

14/11/2011 - Donations based on requests from regional evacuation centres:
• Food donations for
• Rice (60 50kg sacks) = 60,000 Baht
• Tinned fish = 6870 Baht
• Trash bags (51 sets) = 2,652 Baht
• Infant forumla = 19, 155 Baht
• Cookies, tissues, rice = 13,800 Baht

Baan Arsa Jaidee

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