After the Tsunami - What can be done next?
Sham has a great post over at JoyJuiceWizard and it raises the question, what to do next. We donated, some have helped, for better or worse.
The governments around the world try their best, but food alone, clothes and so on might not be enough. There are people that need more to get over the crisis.
- Professional life have been destroyed in the form of hotels, resorts, or fishing utilities. In the wake, there are those that were employed by those facilities, resulting in an economic multiplier effect.
- Kids, but also adults are traumatised by the event. Imagine, you have been close to the waves or even in them. Fighting for your life. Seeing your kids or parents swept away.
I believe those are the victims that need to get back on their feet:
- What about consulting services to get them the assistance to get moving again?
- What about cheap bank loans with very little or no interest rates, with a longer repayment period? I actually just read that Thai banks do provide that.
- Where are the psychologist that talk to children and adults alike to get the over the trauma?
- Where are the construction companies that offer to rebuild houses for free, at a speedy service, or at least for a lowered sum?
- Where are the white good and the brown good companies that offer goods for free to the victims? It doesn't need to be the largest TV screen or the most modern aircondition set, but something, something - hey, a stove would be nice or a microwave
- Where are the mega markets, supermarkets, food traders that offer rice supply for the next 1, 2, 3 months, dependent on some criteria?
- Where are the schools that don't require fee payments for the children of the victims?
- Where are the clothing stores that provide school uniforms for free?
- Where are the telcos that install telephone lines for free or provide free service for a certain time?
- Where are the mobile communications providers that give away handsets for free? I heard that Thai cellular companies do something in this area - anybody has comments?
- Atiza commented that there is no electricity in many of the affected areas. Stupid me. But let's say, we could start with some generators to be donated. Hello Tenaga Nasional, hello IPP. A chance for promotion and marketing!!
There is so much more to say to this - any company can do something. Step forward, I say!!
I read in The Nation (Thailand), December 29, 2004 edition that "Banks and private companies have donated hundreds of millions of baht as well as goods and services ranging from water and food to free telephone calls to help victims of the tsunami that battered Thailands southwestern coast." Sounds like a good start
I somehow have the feeling that it is only the people who provide their means - and that we are still waiting for the manufacturers to get moving.
Sham has a great post over at JoyJuiceWizard and it raises the question, what to do next. We donated, some have helped, for better or worse.
The governments around the world try their best, but food alone, clothes and so on might not be enough. There are people that need more to get over the crisis.
- Professional life have been destroyed in the form of hotels, resorts, or fishing utilities. In the wake, there are those that were employed by those facilities, resulting in an economic multiplier effect.
- Kids, but also adults are traumatised by the event. Imagine, you have been close to the waves or even in them. Fighting for your life. Seeing your kids or parents swept away.
I believe those are the victims that need to get back on their feet:
- What about consulting services to get them the assistance to get moving again?
- What about cheap bank loans with very little or no interest rates, with a longer repayment period? I actually just read that Thai banks do provide that.
- Where are the psychologist that talk to children and adults alike to get the over the trauma?
- Where are the construction companies that offer to rebuild houses for free, at a speedy service, or at least for a lowered sum?
- Where are the white good and the brown good companies that offer goods for free to the victims? It doesn't need to be the largest TV screen or the most modern aircondition set, but something, something - hey, a stove would be nice or a microwave
- Where are the mega markets, supermarkets, food traders that offer rice supply for the next 1, 2, 3 months, dependent on some criteria?
- Where are the schools that don't require fee payments for the children of the victims?
- Where are the clothing stores that provide school uniforms for free?
- Where are the telcos that install telephone lines for free or provide free service for a certain time?
- Where are the mobile communications providers that give away handsets for free? I heard that Thai cellular companies do something in this area - anybody has comments?
- Atiza commented that there is no electricity in many of the affected areas. Stupid me. But let's say, we could start with some generators to be donated. Hello Tenaga Nasional, hello IPP. A chance for promotion and marketing!!
There is so much more to say to this - any company can do something. Step forward, I say!!
I read in The Nation (Thailand), December 29, 2004 edition that "Banks and private companies have donated hundreds of millions of baht as well as goods and services ranging from water and food to free telephone calls to help victims of the tsunami that battered Thailands southwestern coast." Sounds like a good start
I somehow have the feeling that it is only the people who provide their means - and that we are still waiting for the manufacturers to get moving.
posted by Andreas @ 2:43 pm
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