Expats Who Want To Help Out In Phuket

[Tornado]

I have had a lot of people contact me or others saying they would like to help out in clean ups, hospitals and just general volunteer work.

If you are aware of "clubs" that are looking for volunteers, please post contacts here.

If we all get in and help, we will be up and running again in no time.

Is Lions or Rotary doing anything specific?

[Tornado]

add 076 where applicable or + 66 76 for international.

Rotary Club

Call Alan Cooke on 263992.

Lions Clubs of Phuket

?? please add a contact.

Phuket International Women’s Club

contact Linda (282153).

Gazettes Rugby Club

Call Patrick Cotter (341927), Ben Hennessy (01-8919307) or Mike Spackman (263249) for details.

The Swiss Society

Call Robert Frei at 01-8936017.

Edited December 28, 2004 by Tornado

[Tornado]

cheers Leith.

Expats and Thai nationals, if you need physical/general hands on help, please post here as there are many here wanting to help, but dont know how.

Edited December 29, 2004 by Tornado

[cdnvic]

Two Posts from Sao Jiang Mai http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showuser=9746

Hi,

Don't mean to take anyone away from this site, but just wanted to say that The Nation's web site is getting seriously clogged, so we have been asked to set up a mirror site for them on our own web site, www.chiangmaicitylife.com and just click on the news link on the top of the page. You can read all of The Nation's news as it is updated simultaneously as The Nation's and Phuket Gazette's sites.

Such a tragedy. Chaing Mai's numerous magazines are all getting supplies together to send down south, so if anyone wants to contribute you can also contact us through our site.

This is what we are told is needed:

Chemicals to get rid of smells

Toilet paper

Packets of noodles and canned goods

Underwear

Sanitary towels

Flip Flops

Milk

Drinking water

Blankets

Material to wrap bodies (although by the time our convoy gets there it may be too late)

Coffins

Formalin for corpses

Please drop off your donations at SP Publishing: 11/1 Soi 3, Bamrungburi Road, T. Phra Singh, A. Muang Chiang Mai or call 05333 814455-6. You can also drop your donations off at the Citylife offices at 3 Chomdoi Road, T. Suthep, CM. I believe that they are driving down Thursday night or thereabouts.

Pim

[Potter]

I saw on tv today there is an urgent need for translaters. Unfortunately the concacting telephone number disapeared before I could write it down.

I will be more than happy to fly down to Phuket and help translating german, swedish, danish, norwegian into english.

Can anybody help to get in contact with people needing translaters ?

[elsie]

Our shopgurl's team.

Contact Numbers

Chris  +669.499.9508  Phuket based

Ricky  +661.621.7098  Phuket based

Shannon +661.905.9868  Phuket based

Annie  +661.910.8389  Phuket based

Theresa  +666.012.6138  Phuket based

Meow  +667.075.5137  Phuket based

Sweet  +661.207.0505  Bangkok based

Nina  +669.477.9809  Bangkok based

[damnaam]

Our shopgurl's team.

Contact Numbers

Chris  +669.499.9508  Phuket based

Ricky  +661.621.7098  Phuket based

Shannon +661.905.9868  Phuket based

Annie   +661.910.8389  Phuket based

Theresa  +666.012.6138  Phuket based

Meow  +667.075.5137  Phuket based

Sweet  +661.207.0505  Bangkok based

Nina  +669.477.9809  Bangkok based

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'd like to add my number to the list:

Paul - 07 071 5460 - based Karon, Phuket right now and looking to help anyone in need, in any way I can.

[tlpeng]

Hi,

I'm based in Bangkok. Willing to fly to Phuket to help in anyway. Can translate Malay, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien to English. Know a little Thai too.

Pls let me know if help is needed.

Condolences to all those affected.

[phuketrichard]

They need translators at the toursit office about 500 meters from Lotus on the by pass road, ( was there yesterday) and at the city hall in Phuket town.

[camster]

Dive Assistance

I am assuming they are only using professional search and rescue dive teams however if anyone knows of a call for Divers please let me know. I am a Divemaster willing to help in the water, on the surface, with equipment or any other way.

[email protected]

In Phuket 06-279-8183

Thanks

Cam

[SunbeltAsia]

Hospitals: clothes, shoes, counseling:

Wachira Phuket Hospital and other hospitals say there is an urgent need for shoes, shorts and T-shirts, especially in sizes large enough for foreigners.

Shoes are the priority right now. Many of the Thais and foreigners who were hit by the wave lost their shoes, with the result that many have foot injuries from walking or running on broken glass and other sharp objects.

Stores in Phuket have given many pairs of shoes, but most of these are in sizes suitable only for smaller people.

Any footwear large enough for foreigners is welcome; even rubber flip-flops would be a great help.

Many people have lost all or most of their clothes and need T-shirts or shorts to get by for a few days.

Donations may be taken direct to any of the major hospitals: Wachira Phuket, Phuket International; Patong Hospital; Mission Hospital; Bangkok Phuket Hospital.

Many victims are still walking around in a daze and; some have lost love ones or do not know where they are. Any person with the time to go to the hospitals and help is asked to do so. In some cases just hearing a calm voice amid the confusion can help.

[mouse]

I speak fluent Italian, German and English and have good organizational skills. If you need me, call me and I will find a way to get where ever you may need me. Call me at Cellular (+66) 019730513 or email me at [email protected]

[Pete1956]

Hi guys,

I'm a Thai and very new to this forum. I have strayed into the forum by chance but am so delighted to have met u guys.

From what I have read in here, I am totally convinced that Thailand has been very fortunate to have people like u in our country.

U guys r really great! I can't think of more words to express my feelings now.

I love u guys.

[Darknight]

Thanks Pete,

Welcome to the forum all be it in desperate times.

Thanks for the support, please get to know our online community of Farang expats residing in thailand as well as abroad and Thai people as well. Nice to have you.

[Tornado]

ESP Construction Company has been asked to urgently make 60cm x 40cm x 200cm (Falang

Size) wooden boxes (caskets). The

urgent need is for a boat soon to be on

the way from Phi Phi Island. The requirement is for 500 boxes. immediately. More

boats will be on the way from Khao Lak

also, so the demand will go up.

We have contacted our normal building materials suppliers and have gotten, donated,

at or below cost, some 100 sheets of 6mm

plywood and 2 x 4cm ruff cut wood.

It takes 1 1/2 sheets of plywood and 5 pieces of 2 x 4cm wood per box, so much more

are needed.

If other persons in the construction business can please contact their normal

suppliers of lumbar and try to get donated 6mm

plywood or plywood at reduced prices, this would help. ESP Construction will buy

what we need to

make up the rest at this time and wait for later donations or reimbursement. This

urgent need alone will stretch local

stocks, so Bangkok companies will be contacted tomorrow and any assistance with

Bangkok suppliers is

appreciated also.

Bradley E. Kenny

99/26-27 Charloem Phra Kiat Ror 9 Road

Ratsada, Muang, Phuket 83000

TEL: +(66-76) 354870

FAX: +(66-76) 354871

MOBILE: +(66-1) 6334279

[zabelboy1]

if you need help whit one who can speak danish swedish and english and alittel thai than im ther live in bangkok may all the dead ones r.i.p zabelboy1

[Tornado]

Needed in Phuket Town is sheets and blankets for the people sleeping outdoors. They have enough water and food (no one ever goes hungry in Thailand ).

If you go towards the land office, Court, Admin area, you will see all of the people needing your help. They are quite organised and you can also give money.

[ToeCutter]

I'm a freelance programmer and my friend is a medic. If anybody is leaving from Samui to Phuket (my friend needs to get to the hospital there) and would consider giving us and maybe a few others transport please let me know. My contact details follow, please use them rather than replying to this post (thx).

If anyone knows of any voluntary computer related work anywhere else that I could be of better use in please let me know. I've also done a fair bit of systems and database admin if that helps.

I can speak only English and very poor Thai (sorry, i'm learning).

If you contact me and get no response, it's becuase I've already gone =)

Thank you

Malcolm Swaine

[email protected]

Maenam,

Ko-Samui,

Surat-Thani,

84330 Thailand.

+(66) 097 316 703

[Far Angst]

I am ready to go anywhere in Thailand to help out in interpreting from Scandinavian tongues, German, Finnish and Spanish into English.

I have my own transportation and am ready at moment's notice.

My telephone is: 01-5728215

Edited December 30, 2004 by Far Angst

[meadish_sweetball]

Swedish interpreter/translator with fluent English and Thai skills

I speak and write English and Swedish fluently and without effort, and speak Standard Thai fluently enough for acting as an interpreter from and into Thai from and into Swedish and English (nearly completed BA in the Thai language and 10 years travelling in Thailand, as well as 3 years of living in Thailand.) I have 2 years' experience of translating documents within various fields, and I have also acted as an interpreter between all three languages on various formal and informal occasions, of which a few involved interpreting for sick and injured Swedes in Thai hospitals.

I have also completed one year of military training as a quartermaster and I am used to working in a stressful environment.

I would be happy to assist with my language skills wherever I am needed the most. Please PM me through this web forum and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

Jag talar flytande engelska, svenska och centralthai och förstår även norska. Jag har tre års erfarenhet som frilansöversättare mellan de tre första språken. Jag läser också thaiskrift eftersom jag har en nära treårig universitetsutbildning i thai.

Jag vill mycket gärna hjälpa till där jag behövs bäst. Kontakta mig med ett PM genom detta webbforum och ge mig eventuella kontaktuppgifter så kommer jag att höra av mig inom kort.

Edited December 30, 2004 by meadish_sweetball

[christianshearer]

I just got off the phone with a man who answered the number given for the Rotary club above. I told him that I am an expat living in Bangkok, willing to come down and help. He said. "Do it!" He said that my help would be very much appreciated, and that rather than waiting on lists for known organizations, that just showing up and offering help is the way to really be effective.

I asked him where I should take the bus too, and he said that Kow Lak (the national Park just north of Phuket), is the neediest place he knows of. Show up and you will be put to work.

I am going to bring my own blankets and a bunch of pairs of flip-flops, as I hear shoes are needed. But other than that, just what my muscles can offer. I encourage anyone who feels they could do this to do it. It will be an amazing adventure and will really be of help to the people in the area.

I love this country and will do whatever I can to help.

C. Shearer

[joebuzzard]

A friend just returned from Phuket. He had been hanging around at the hospitals, just talking to people. Most of the people he was talking with were Scandinavian. Even though he could only speak English, he could still just talk to the people, get them out of their shells. It made him feel good, and it probably did the other people good, too.

[Tornado]

An Australian friend of mine (Annie) is helping at Phuket Town Hall and has asked for tents to be donated to the Town Hall as many are still sleeping outside. She also said, any foreigner that hasnt registered at their Embassies, go along to Town Hall as every Emabssy has an offical there - even if your an expat as if they are not looking for you, they can go onto the next.

You can also register to help, from driving people, councelling etc.

[spog]

An Australian friend of mine (Annie) is helping at Phuket Town Hall and has asked for tents to be donated to the Town Hall as many are still sleeping outside. She also said, any foreigner that hasnt registered at their Embassies, go along to Town Hall as every Emabssy has an offical there - even if your an expat as if they are not looking for you, they can go onto the next.

You can also register to help, from driving people, councelling etc.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

So do they need people to help? I don't have any specialist skills (apart from scuba diving). I'd like to help, but I don't want to come all the way from BK if I am going to just get in the way of those who know what they are doing. It would make more sense to save the cost of travelling and donate the cash instead.

[gifuto]

Dear All

I too found this forum by chance and feel grateful that you guys are willing to help. Follows are selected contact numbers regarding needs of translators and interpreters:

076-217833: Phuket City Hall --> Interpreter center

02-4722368: Commander Supat

02-5712323 (I forgot the name of this place sorry )

01-2088877: Website translation and updates

09-6353985: National Police Dept.

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Krabi Hospital urgently needs English-speaking psychologists: 076-611212.

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You guys can also try hospitals in the affected provinces, provided that they're in need of help:

077-844-143 Suksamran Hospital, Ranong

077-897-016 Kapor Hospital, Ranong

076-211-114 Vachira Hospital, Phuket

076-254-425 Bangkok Phuket Hospital

076-210-935 Phuket International Hospital

076-237-220 Mission Hospital

076-340-444 Patong Hospital

076-311-033 Thalang Hospital

076-412-032 Pang Nga Hospital

076-421-770 Takuapa Hospital

075-611-212 Krabi Hospital

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Voluntary interpreters from Bangkok must register in person at Nokair Don Muang counter for free flights to Phuket (no contact number). Flights depart around 8.30, 13.30, and 19.35. I heard that Air Asia and Thai Airways also offer this service.

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I wish and hope that some of this information would be practical somehow. Once again, on behalf of all Thais, I'd like to say THANKS for your concerns and assistance

[verticalift]

Volunteer Helicopter Pilot Available;

Any government agency or civilian operator with Helicopter operations in Phuket and Khao Lak, I would like to volunteer my services.

Currently employed with Abu Dhabi Aviation in the UAE, as an Offshore IFR Capt. flying both Bell 212/412 Helicopters to the offshore oil rigs in the Arabian Gulf.

Will be available in Phuket from January 01 -30.

Date last flown: 01 Jan. 2005 (Bell 412)

18 Dec 2004 (Bell 212)

Experience: 9,500 Hrs Helicopter (Bell 212, 412)

2,000 Hrs Fixed Wing (B737, F27, HS748)

Licenses: FAA ATPL, Canadian ATPL, UAE ATPL

28 years flying both R/W & F/W - No accidents.

Contact: Ian Mitchell - Kathu, Phuket

Tel: 076-202996

Cell: 09-291-4799

Email: [email protected]

If your flight crews are "Time X-d" and require a break from SAR ops, I would like to do what I can to assist.

[cusper]

Hi to all, if you have the time and a pickup there is a lot of need at the thai resorts/beaches north of Khao lak.

Find your Makro stores and the local bulk suppliers of chemists.

They are in desperate need for masks,iodine,disinfectant,gloves,paracetomal,baby milk powder, drinking yoghurt and milks of long life,enrgy bars etc.

There is a ton of food and water, the Thais have sent loads of clothes.

Where we went near Takua Pua all the beaches north and south are completely trashed upto 500 meters inland.

The stench is strong .take a mask.

Try to find the smaller relief centers, just ask the rescue workers in the orange overalls, they will direct you.

This is much bigger than is being reported and they will need help for a considerable time yet.

[taxexile]

can anybody tell me if dentists are needed to record dental records of the bodies , when visual id is impossible they use dna and dental records and this is what they are doing now.

if dentists are needed please pm me with details of how to contact the relevant people.

[gifuto]

Dear Taxexile

You can surely contribute a great help. Simply call MCOT 02-201-6050-69 (24 hours).

[lucadg]

I'll go to Phuket and probably Phi Phi on the 11t of January to bring some money I ve been collecting directly to some affected people / families.

- I am trying to create a direct contact between my Italian donors and the people I give the money to, hoping a direct relationship results in continued help in the future. We all know what happens when TV stops talking about things.

Can anybody help me indicating people who may need financial help? I know unfortunatelly there are many, but that could help spare precious time and getting relief where it is most needed. I promised my donors to give the money directly to the people who will use it, so no associations or temples. Nothing wrong with them, but it would be impersonal.

- If anybody needs me to do something on site, look for somebody or something like that, I ll try to help. Just drop me a line on

[email protected] and I ll see what I can do. As I said time is precious, so I'll give priority to requests which are clear and precise and do not require extra emails. I apologise in advance for those people who'll seek my help and I won't be able to.

Love

Luca

http://www.tripfoto.com

http://www.tripluca.com