YIR
Sam

Torsdag den 11 maj 2005:

Tack Bolänge Rotaryklubb, Tack Lidingö InnerWheel och ett särskilt tack till alla snälla människor som givet en gåva till minne av nära och kära som miste livet i denna tragedi.
Till idag har insamlingen till Phuket/Patong Beach RC inbringat nästan 19.000 kr varje vecka! Se gärna vad era gåvar har hjälpt till att åstadkomma här

Söndag den 10 april 2005:
Jubileumskonsert på Vallentuna Teater. Intäkterna kommer att gå till Phuket och Lugna gatan i Vallentuna.

Tisdag den 8 februari 2005:
Jubileumskonsert till förmån för insamlingen
hålls i Danderyds kyrka av Danderyds RK, Djursholms RK och Djursholms-Svidjod RK

Fredag den 4 februari 2005:
Vår Past President Nina återkom från Phuket och berättade...
Denna fredag skulle vi ha lyssnat på kampanjen Rotary mot droger, men föredraghållaren fick förhinder. Men istället kunde vi glädjande återse vår Past President Nina som återvänt efter sin vistelse på UDs uppdrag till Phuket. Nina fick berätta och berätta gjorde hon. Om kaoset, om de okända volontärernas arbete, om de okända ledargestalterna som tog tag i situatiuonen och handlade: Vi fick höra om bortsopade fiskarbyar och om de små människornas hjälplöshet. Om vi fick hör vilken fantastisk insats denna lilla Rotaryklubb i Patong Beach, med bara 25 medlemmar, gör. Där alla gör något och de som gör mest gör i princip inget annat just nu än hjälper andra. Bland medlemmar finns de som är chefer för hotelanläggningar som inte längre finns, men ändå är det hjälpen till andra som får prioritet.
Ninas berättelse var förde oss väldigt nära händelserna och det kändes nästa skrämmande. Hon talade så länge denna morgon att vi spräckte vårt tidsschema, men alla satt kvar på "övertid" denna morgon och lyssnade. Tack Nina för att du hjälpte till att bygga en bro med våra rotaryvänner långt borta i sydost asien.

Tisdag den 26 januari 2005:
Moskvaklubb ger direkt stöd och mer följer:
Dear Tord,
Many thanks for the message. I have sent it to all the Board members of Rotary Club "Moscow International". Considering the huge support that this area receives worldwide, we think that our support can be mainly moral. In any case we would like to contribute to your generous effort. We are planning an event in February and we will devote part of the benefit for help to people suffering after this wave of destruction. I don't know how much money we
will collect but in any case, further to this money, our Club shall send a minimum amount of $1,000 to Stockolm Strand RC .

Yours very friendly in Rotary
Leonardo de Angelis
President 2004-2005
Rotary Club "Moscow International"

Måndag den 25 januari 2005
THB 117,914 ivägskickade till Phuket.

Lördag den 22 januari 2005:
Lägesrapport från Phuket sammanställd av David Arell - klubbsekreterare i Rotary Club of Patong Beach: [OBS! Detaljerade lägesrapporter publiceras här]

Dear Tord,
Thank you for your email and I am happy to provide you here with this update of our projects.

Rotary Club of Patong Beach Tsunami Relief Efforts
Short Term Relief
The Club has allocated 250,000 Baht for immediate relief needs including food, water, shelter and clothing for survivors. More funds will be allocated to this as needed.

Mid & Long Term Relief
The club has identified 4 main projects which we will support in the mid and long term:

- Scholarships for children – This effort is to insure children have the money to complete high school (12th grade or Matayom Hok). Scholarships will be administered through the school counselors and
teachers, funds will not be disbursed to children or families directly. The funds will be used toward the purchase of school uniforms, shoes, books, pens pencils and lunch money. Annual meetings will
be held with schools to review status and audit receipts for each student. The funding will be 6,000 baht per year per student for years 1-6 and 8,000 baht per year per student for years 7-12.
Applications from the first group of 20 children are being reviewed now.

- Support for families to recover – task force lead by Frank
The initial donations will be used for support of 6,000 baht per month for up to 8 months to families in need of basic funds for food and shelter. The second stage is financial support for the
reestablishment of small business – the support to purchase the tools needed to get the family livelihood back. Applications from the first group of 13 families are being reviewed now.

- Water purification systems for schools, daycare and orphanages – task force lead by Brad

– Survey the need for clean water systems and implement required systems.
Permanent location for the Patong Beach Childcare Center – task force leader Paul. This task force is working to secure a permanent location for this day-care facility for the children of the slum
communities.

Additional projects under consideration by the board include adoption of a specific village to build homes and help the families, and work with a specific public school. However, the task force leaders of these additional projects must be identified and then funds secured before any commitments are made.

We will continue to update our website www.rotarypatong.org with progress on the relief.

Best regards,
David Arell - Secretary Rotary Club of Patong Beach

Torsdag den 13 januari 2005:
Skattmästare Lars Zacharoff meddelar att vi har idag har skicka iväg ytterligare 41.700 kr till Thailand. Tack till alla rotarianer och Rotaryklubbar som svarat på detta upprop!
Stockholms Strands Past President återkommer från Thailand om en vecka troligtvis och vi ser fram emot att för hör henne berätta mer om arbetet i Phuket med omnejd.

Lördag den 8 januari 2005:
Nina Brunstedt, Stockholm Strands Past President, som befinner sig i Phuket för UD har skrivit lite fritt och berättat följande: - - - - - - - - - de bilder här brevid - - - >

... Sverige har nu inrättat ett permanent generalkonsulat i Phuket och tillsammans med Räddningsverket, Polisen och Försvaret arbetar här nu ca 120 personer. Denna bemanning ska vara kvar i åtminsstone två månader. Röda korset har fått regeringens uppdrag att inrätta ett permanent kriscenter för tillresande anhöriga och turister. De har redan kommit så långt att de har fått en lokal vid Surin Beach.
I torsdags på SvT:s God morgonsändning i TV - fick jag möjlighet att även spegla UD:s arbete i regionen.
Jag kommer att vara kvar en vecka till - men nu har ett avlösningsteam kommit hit och allt eftersom
upprättas nu rutiner och livet ska gå mer i sin gilla gång - så gott det nu går.
Vi planerar att besöka Patong Beach Club även nästa tisdag.
Det som jag bär med mig härifrån är att världen är liten och att alla människor är fantastiska när det händer något så fruktansvärt som detta.
STOR KRAM
Nina

Fredag den 7 januari 2005:
Vilka är ansvariga för pengarna som kommer in används rätt?
Från Phuket kommer denna presentation av aktiviteter och vilka personer som kommer att vara ansvariga för att se till att pengarna som skicka till Thailand används rätt.
Presentation av Phuket Tsunami Relief Committee

Onsdag den 5 januari 2005:
Första pengarna har gått iväg!

Efter en viss ängslig tröghet hos bankgirot att behandla inbetalningarn har nu de första pengarna gått iväg till Phuket.
Hittills har 30.000 kr kommit in och dessa gick ograverat iväg till Rotary Club of Patong Beach onsdag morgon.
Ett stort tack till er som var bland de första att svara på uppropet.
MEN DET ÄR VIKTIGT ATT VI INTE STANNAR MED DETTA. HAR DIN KLUBB GETT ETT BIDRAG?

Stockholm Strand Rotaryklubbs Past President Nina Brunstedt, är på plats i Phuket som UD-frivillig. Nina besökte tisdag kväll Patong-klubbens veckomöte och fick ett mycket positivt intryck av klubben, som är internationell och engelsktalande, samt fick sitt första lagade mål mat på en vecka! Nina diskuterade även projektet med klubben och rapporterar, att behovet verkligen föreligger samt att klubben är väl skickad att sköta projektet professionellt.

Här följer ett kort referat som anlände onsdag kvell från Patong Beach klubben President Sam Fauma
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Dear Rtn. Tord,
It was a pleasure to welcome your Past President Nina and representative of a Swedish Club at our Weekly Meeting last Tuesday the 4th of Jan. 05.

I am sending you herewith pictures [SE HÄR BREVID ->] from the meeting and we all want to thank you for your support.

I also had attended a meeting of all 6 Rotary Club Presidents and 2 ADG and PDG of Phuket and we decided to open a separate account for the Province which will be used for long term relief, short term relief and middle term relief of which we hope that we can together with other Clubs and RI finance the re-building of a 100 homes (each Baht 100,000 without interior / 100 years Rotary = 100 Homes) for which we do have another meeting with the Vice Governor of Phuket tomorrow, or to re-build a school and give scholarship, build a library, give post trauma counseling, organize Vocational Training, install Water treatment system for village and schools. Attached please find a proposal from that meeting for all of our Clubs approval.

YIR
P. Sam Fauma

Lördag den 1 januari 2005:
Dear fellow Rotarians and donors,

We started an e-mail list where we will give you regular information about the projects and work our club is doing currently every day and ongoing efforts for Phuket and Phang Nga province relief efforts.

District 33330 Convoy
Yesterday the 31st of December 2004 the district of 3330 by its DG Voravut a Convoy of 5 trucks (from total 15 trucks) arrived on Phuket with relief material, and had been officially handed over to the Vice Governor of Phuket with a cheque of Baht 100,000. From there the material had been send to the Municipal office for re-packing and one truck load had been send to the short term storage of the Rotary Club of Patong Beach at the offices of ESP, our own Community Service Chair Persons offices on Bypass rd.

Rotary Club of Samui Relief Materials:
We also received a pick up truck from Koh Samui Rotary Club full of needed items, whereas the truck then had been loaded with drinking water and send to Khao Lak where water is needed most. The driver who came from Samui agreed to go up to Khao Lak to distribute the water directly there and give a helping hand where needed. THANK YOU to the Rotary Club of Samui.

Toothbrush Project
We started a Toothbrush Project as we knew from local hospitals that the patients in the hospital are in need of Toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap and other personal items. By calling upon our member Rtn. Wolfgang the GM from the Holiday Inn Resort Phuket, which had been partly damages and currently is closed for renovation and he agreed to supply us with as much materials we need. Our International Services Committee Chairperson Rtn. Michael went to pick it up and distribute to the Hospitals with help from his staff and my wife and also by Rtn. Andreas and the staff of his office. The donations had been distributed directly into the rooms of the patients which is the biggest problem the hospitals facing right now, though receiving lots of donations they don’t have the staff for distributions. Patients are very happy to receive these goods and also a little piece of chocolate which my wife took with her to hand out.

Medical Material distribution
Rtn. Andreas and his staff (though having lost their offices in Kamala Beach) also distributed items received by the Samui Rotary Club to the Patong Hospital, which had been most needed over there and helped the Toothbrush Project.

Casket Project
Our Community Chairperson Bradley who unfortunately had to leave Phuket last night as his mother in the States is in the hospital organized a Coffin production facility in front of his offices together with ANT Construction and sponsorship of the owner of Ant Constructions Mr. Andy’s father bought all wood available to produce coffins to send to Khao Lak, where they are most needed. Every day one or more trucks full of caskets are leaving his offices to be delivered to Khao Lak by local owners of trucks.
By today the last 15 caskets had been made and production had been stopped as the information from Khao Lak coming in, is that there are right now no more caskets needed.

“Operation Cookie”
Organized by the owner and fellow Rtn. Woody, the idea was to distribute cookies to the hospitals but it’s pretty obvious that the appropriate time has come and gone.
At the Patong Hospital they’ve put away most of the emergency tents. Only a few people are hanging out. Most of the donated goods were being taken away by military personnel – most likely to be sent to
Phang Nga or other places that really need it.
Anyway, we’re shelving the plans for “Operation Cookie” – and hoping that we’ll find a different way to kick off Rotary Interact soon.
A Relief Day at the Bakery is organized for this Sunday and the Operation Cookies will be moved to other hospitals on Phuket or Phang Nga.

Further did Rtn. Woody open his Bakery for the whole Sunday to give away free food.

Midnight Candle Light Memorial
Yesterday the Central Department store on Phuket organized a Candle Light memorial at the Central Phuket, which had official participation by the Thai Government and local Administration as the Interior Minister and Governor of Phuket, Vice Governors and many other dignitaries as well our Clubs representative. All New Years celebrations had been cancelled and Candle Light Memorials took place all over the island in memory of the disaster and the death tool it is taking.

Khao Lak Relief:
Today the first truck of cooking items had been send to Khao Lak by volunteers and Rtn. Michael and on Sunday the next will depart with Rtn. Larry and his team of volunteers.


Currently we are on a day to day working base and are happy to have our PP Jeroen back in Phuket, who will deliver tomorrow clothes and water to Khao Lak in Phang Nga province. Every member is helping along in their neighborhood or delivers relief materials to Khao Lak, help cleaning Patong Beach or the local community they live in.

Please find pictures on our home page, which will be updated every day. www.rotarypatong.org clicks on Tsunami logo.


ITEMS requested by the local Government:
Cooking materials, equipment for kitchen as the Government through the Navy are already building shelter for the homeless and need help on this side.


Yours in Rotary
P. Sam Fauma