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Phuket Media Club seeks donations for refugees

Phuket Media Club seeks donations for refugees

PHUKET: The Phuket Media Club (PMC) is receiving donations of consumer goods for victims of the March 22 fire at the Karen and hilltribe refugee camp in Mae Hong Son in the north of Thailand.


By Tanyaluk Sakoot

Friday 12 April 2013 05:12 PM


 

The fire killed some 35 people in the camp, established for people fleeing fighting in Myanmar. The blaze also destroyed 400 dwellings and left 3,828 people without shelter.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has provided temporary housing but the PMC hopes to make life more tolerable with gifts of daily necessities until things get back to normal for the refugees.

Until the end of this month the PMC is open to donations of anything “necessary to living”, which should be taken to its offices next to the Phuket Provincial Hall. It is the single-story building just inside the Damrong Rd (northern) entrance of the Provincial Hall compound.

At the end of the month the donations will be carried to Mae Hong Son by the Kusonlatham Foundation.

For details, contact the chairman of the PMC, Peerapong Ponpramon, by calling 081 397 4624.