People are
donating rice to the shelter, but more is needed.
Manoon Makpol
Officials from the Redemptorist Vocational School
appealed for more donations of food and other supplies for an increasing
number of handicapped flood victims taking shelter at the Pattaya
school.
Father Ray Foundation acting President Rev.
Pattarapong Srivorakul, Pattaya MP Poramet Ngampichet and Pattaya City
Councilman Rattanachai Sutidechanai, said the vocational school’s
handicapped shelter cannot accept many more flood victims and needs more
supplies for the ones it has taken in.
The Father Ray Foundation can take in only a maximum
400 additional flood victims. The handicap school alone is already
housing 154 evacuees, 35 handicapped, 36 children, four senior citizens,
39 caretakers, network officials, and more than 30 families. More are
contacting the center every day.
While some volunteers have donated rice, the school
also needs canned food, more rice, canned milk for children and other
goods. Those wanting to donate can contact 038-716-628.
Sawachna Binaasai, who fled her flooded home in
Bangkok, took her three children to the vocational school on Oct. 25.
She praised the shelter, saying personnel there have made her relocation
as pleasant as possible by organizing exercise, games and activities for
her and the kids.
