Helping Thailand
A group of exchange students in Bangkok – among them Jacobs undergraduate Eugenia Rosca – have launched a fundraising campaign for flood victims in Thailand.
November 1, 2011The students from Germany, the US, France, Japan, Sweden, Belgium, Italy and Moldova are currently on an exchange year at Thammasat University in the Thai capital.
Since the floods started they have been involved in volunteering activities around Bangkok packing food parcels for victims or building walls of sandbags.
Now they have taken their relief efforts one step further by setting up the website www.thailandflood.org to collect money for the flood victims.
Moldovan-born Eugenia Rosca, who is studying International Logistics at Jacobs, has been instrumental in launching the campaign. She has since been affected herself by the worst floods to hit Thailand in 50 years and had to be evacuated from Bangkok to one of the islands in the south of the country.
The 22-year-old says: “We feel that we cannot remain indifferent to the national disaster Thailand is facing. On the website we describe our views on the situation in a blog which we update daily. There is also the possibility to make donations via Paypal. Any monetary assistance is urgently needed for sending survival bags to the affected areas.”
As some of the students have already worked with the Volunteer Center for the Flood Relief or “Baan Arsa Jaidee” they’d like to continue their partnership with this NGO. Donations will be used to buy the goods (such as rice, instant noodles, canned food, medicine, trash bags, tissue papers, candles, matches, lighters and more) to prepare survival bags for some of the 2.3 million people in Thailand affected by the catastrophe.
For more information on Thailand Flood Fundraising or to make a donation please visit www.thailandflood.org.
You can also follow the campaign on Facebook.
Fundraising on campus
In a seperate fundraising effort on campus Jacobs University student Titiruck Nuntapramote has also been collecting money for the flood victims in his home country, which he will donate to the Thai Studenten Verein in Deutschland e.V (TSVD) who in turn send the money to the Thai Redcross.
If you'd like to donate to Titiruck's campaign you can email him on t.nuntapramote@jacobs-university.de
