Weeboon: Thailand Crowdfunds For Good Causes

By Chayanit Itthipongmaetee, Staff Reporter

 

Top: Katerina and Daniel Mokshantsev (in orange hospital gowns) receive donation made via Weeboon. Photo: Weeboon

 

BANGKOK — When Nguyen Quoc launched the nation’s first open, donation-based crowdfunding platform earlier this year, he didn’t have to wait long to see it make a difference.

 

It was in February, after a bus ran a red light at a busy Pattaya intersection and plowed into a motorcycle, sending both passengers – two Russian teens – into a coma.  Daniel Mokshantsev and Katerina Mokshantsev were in critical conditions for weeks and needed brain and spine surgeries costing over 1 million baht, a massive fee their family couldn’t handle, even with the accident insurance payout.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/business/2017/11/07/weeboon-thailand-gets-first-donation-based-crowdfunding-causes/

 

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And why was the Driver or the Owners of the bus not held accountable ?