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Help feed hungry & unemployed workers on Koh Phangan, Thailand
What is the situation?
1,000s of southeast asian workers on Koh Phangan are in dire need of your help.
Koh Phangan is an island off the west coast of Thailand, with an estimated five thousand Burmese workers, over thirty thousand Thai and a large foreign population.
Most workers are reliant on international tourism, and because of the coronavirus pandemic, thousands have been laid off.
The majority are guest workers fromMyanmar and Laos who have sent their pay back home and are ineligible for government assistance.
Due to strict border lockdowns, many are now trapped in Thailand no income, no food, and in some cases, no homes.
What are we doing?
Our project’s aim is simple: to feed displaced Burmese people in need, as well as Thais and foreigners without means of sustenance, for the duration of the coronavirus crisis.
The local community, both Thai and Foreign are organizing the distribution of rice, to try and provide the basic calories for survival over the coming months.
Glow Flow Yoga is teaming up with charities who are making major moves to help the community.
Happy Food is one of the fastest growing and initiative charities on the island, and they’ve put all of this together and continually work hard everyday to feed the hungry. Most donations from the GFY campaign will go to HFKPP but there are still small groups helping out the hungry and a portion of donations will be split between other known groups.
How can I help?
Your donations enable us to deliver the constant supply of rice to those who are going hungry right now.
The cost of rice for 1 day for a person is just ฿12 ($0.37 USD)
1 week: ฿84 ($2.59).
1 month: ฿360 ($11.10)
3 months: ฿1080 ($33.44)
Some have been giving between ฿3,000-฿10,000 ($150-$300), which would sponsor 4-10 people’s rice for 3 months. That’s between 2,500-8,000 portions of rice.
With over 3,000 people who need access to food, all we need is 3,000 people who can sponsor 1 person for the next 3 months :)
Our current goal is to raise 3.5 million baht, to ensure all 3,000 people can have at least basic rice for 3 months.
100% of your donations will go to basic food/supplies for those who are in a desperate situation.
If you have ever visited Koh Phangan, you will have benefited from the tireless work of these dedicated cooks, cleaners, and service staff, along with the infrastructure they build and maintain.
Now is your chance to help the people who’ve helped us so much. That way our community will be intact to welcome you when next you return.
Any funds left over after this crisis abates will be donated to Koh Phangan’s state hospital.
This excellent hospital provides care at a minimum of cost, and is currently subsidized yearly by charitable donations totaling eight million baht from the local Thai population.
Every penny helps.
No donation is too small to make a big impact on someone’s life right now.
Thank you!
P.S. We’ve found that a simple post on your Facebook wall can literally bring in up to 1,000s of portions of rice in donations. If you’re up for sharing a post on your wall, scroll up and click on the contact section. You’ll be able to send us an email about this crises fundraiser and we’ll then email you an easy copy + paste template to post your wall!
