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This
program expedites emergency assistance to those
suffering from natural and human-caused disasters
byaccepting donations in forms od cash, clothes,
dried food and other items from charitable donors.
World Vision Foundation of Thailand assists
in emergency relief efforts cooperation with government
and private sectors of the disaster affected area.
Rehabilitation programs will provide long lasting
development, so that the communities affected
can become self-supporting. |
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Report
on Wang Chin Emergency Relief Project |
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Sincere
Thanks and Appreciation
Dear Supportive Sponsors, |
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On
behalf of World Vision Thailand and flood victims in Nakohn
Si Thammarat, Songkhla and Phrae Provinces, I would like to
extend to you our great appreciation on the help that you
had kindly given to those in need. Their smiles of gladness
in receiving the living set that we have witnessed will be
imprinted in every one of us at World Vision. Your kind consideration
has truly wiped away tears of loss and hardship of their lives.
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Apart
from primary emergency relief, your donation will be added
to the rehabilitation program to help the flood victims recover
from disastrous nightmare with hope, new houses and occupations.
The details as appeared in this report. In the next step,
World Vision will persuade these communities to improve their
environment, which we view very important. We have always
received a satisfactory cooperation from the flood victims
in seriously developing themselves, their families and their
communities. They realize that, with your kind support, they
have never been neglected to fight the tragic fate alone as
obviously seen from your kind response to our requesting notice.
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We
cordially thank you for your continued support. May God bless
you and your family. |
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Sincerely
yours,
(Mr. Chusak Withiwaropas)
Executive Director of World Vision Foundation of Thailand
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The
August tragic flood that caused physical and mental loss to
Nam Kor and Nam Chun villagers in Lom Sak District, Petchabun
Province, has left the feeling of uncertainty, worries and
frights in the mind of all victims.
On 21 August 2001, the death toll of 125 has been reported
while the search for dead bodies was continued amid the unpleasant
smell of corpses and melancholy cremated smoke. The cremation
has been done in a simple and hurry manner to prevent the
possibility of waterborne infectious diseases. Every inch
of mudslide and wrecked houses were waiting for rescue team
to search for missing family members. |
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Residents
of Nam Kor and Nam Chun villages have been severely affected
by this flash flood. It was unexplainable pain and shock to
find their belongings and especially their loved ones unexpectedly
parted away within a blink of surging water. |
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"It
was raining so hard that night with loud thunderstorm and
all. I woke up as I heard the running water. The electricity
already went out. I carried my baby and started to run with
my husband. The flood came so fast that we had no time to
do anything. Looking back upon my house, I saw only mudslide
coming all the way. We climbed up to the roof of the gas station.
We saw our house collapsed and then my grandmother's on the
opposite side. I was so scared and all I could do was prey
for safety. We heard noises and screams, asking for help from
everywhere all night but couldn't do much. We helped two people
who came close to the roof. We stayed there until morning
and then got down." Duangruethai Saengharn, Nam Kor villager
told us with frightened voice. |
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Tears
of losing her beloved dad on the face of Chanpen Kaewduangdee,
a 19-year-old girl, shows the effect of this unexpected loss,
"Mom woke dad and me up around three in the morning with the
fiercely uproar of the flowing water. The water level was
about our waist by then. Dad pushed us upstairs while he still
stayed downstairs. Part of our house has collapsed. I held
my mom's hand and the house's pole tight. Finally, the flood
tore our house apart. I cried for help and called for dad.
I heard him cried once and that was all. The house was gone.
My mom and I flew along the water. We tried to climb when
we stepped on timber and stayed there until morning. We looked
for him, my dad, and we found him already dead. His body was
just cremated." Chanpen told us with highest grief.
Miss Boonchuay, 32, is another survivor who has left penniless,
"It was flooded all over. My only thought was to get my child
out survived. My house has gone. I held my child tightly and
dived out of the house. Even now, I still didn't know how
I could have made it." |
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Primary
Emergency Relief Program
World Vision's primary emergency relief includes: |
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Provide
250 sets of necessary items, such as pot, pan, pail,
plate and spoon, bathing cloth, sarong-like skirt, sanitary
napkin, mattress and mosquito net as well as rice and
canned food, for Nam Kor villagers who has severely
suffered to flood. |
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Provide
2,723 sets of rice and canned food for flood victims
in Muang and Sang Khom Districts, Udon Thani Province. |
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Continued
Support for Flood Victims in Nam Kor and Nam Chun Villages
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Construction
of temporary houses in a suitable plot of land while
government support on permanent residence is on the
way |
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Supply
of kitchen utensils and sleeping materials for flood
victims |
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Temporary
support on agriculture for survival program, such as
chicken or fish farming and vegetable gardening |
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School
uniforms, shoes and school supplies for students in
Nam Kor and Nam Chun villages |
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Rehabilitation
Plan for Flood Victims in Udon Thani |
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Provide
vegetable seeds and bio-fertilizer as agricultural support
to enable them to earn additional income |
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Duck
and chicken farming for food and for occupation |
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You
can help lessen loss, sadness and despair of these needy people
by joining Emergency Relief Program with World Vision Thailand.
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| Report
on Wang Chin Emergency Relief Project |
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immediate and continued support of World Vision included
the then Primary Emergency Relief to the now Rehabilitation
of Living Condition, which will be followed by the Rehabilitation
on Occupation, Income, Education, Community's Environmental
and Natural Resource Preservation in the next step. |
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help that was given has dried away tears from faces
of the victims and healed heartache of more than 631
families in Soy, Mae Pung and Pah Sak Subdistricts,
Wang Chin District, Phrae Province, who have experienced
horrible and destructive flash flood earlier this year. |
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Buaphad
Tejasupha's Interview
Buaphad Tejasupha is a resident of Hong Village, Moo
5. Having lost her elderly 18-year-old and youngest
two-year-old daughters in the flood, Buaphad was one
of 22 victims that World Vision provided temporary housing,
vegetable seeds, catfish breeding stock and food for
catfish farming in a cement pond. On the day of the
interview, Buaphad and her husband were helping their
neighbor building a house in an allotted plot of land.
She told us with a happy face, distinctively different
from what we saw the day before. "I can somewhat let
go now. Life is good here, better than at Soy School.
I feel very much better. Thank you World Vision for
this temporary house. I feel encouraged and will start
building our own house soon. I also planned to use timber
that World Vision had given me in the construction of
my new house." She planned to move to her new house
in October. |
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Yupha
Kanthachan's Interview
Yupha is a Mae Khamuak villager who has lost all her
belongings and almost lost the life of her only son
in the flood. With a new house being build, Yupha felt
that the help she received lit up her hope to start
over again. Today is her new day. She said gladly, "I'm
happy that World Vision came for help. I feel good and
will not turn down. It will gradually be better."
It has been three months since the great flood in Phrae
Province but World Vision will continue its supportive
help until the sadness completely fades away with the
visit of happy smiles and quality living condition. |
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Background
on the Wang Chin Rehabilitation Program
The Rehabilitation Program for Flood Victims at Wang
Chin District, Phrae Province covers Soy, Mae Pung and
Pah Sak Subdistricts. The 6–year project started in
June 2001 and will last till September 2006.
The primary help includes the construction of temporary
houses, the supply of kitchenware, sleeping materials,
food (catfish farming and vegetable gardening), school
supplies and school lunch project for affected students.
World Vision's long-term community development aims
at building a strong independent community, which can
solve their problems with sustainability, providing
a continued education for 1,000 young people, supplying
occupation for targeted community members to earn daily
income and promoting the idea of environmental and natural
resource preservation. |
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