April 6, 2005: Headlines: COS - Thailand: Tsunami: Crisis Corps: Database Design: Bangkok Post: An eight-member US Peace Corps crisis team has begun a rehabilitation mission to tsunami-hit Ban Nam Khem in Takua Pa district. The team is tasked with creating databases for fund-raising efforts, restoring community resources and building houses and facilities for wave survivors.
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April 6, 2005: Headlines: COS - Thailand: Tsunami: Crisis Corps: Database Design: Bangkok Post: An eight-member US Peace Corps crisis team has begun a rehabilitation mission to tsunami-hit Ban Nam Khem in Takua Pa district. The team is tasked with creating databases for fund-raising efforts, restoring community resources and building houses and facilities for wave survivors.
An eight-member US Peace Corps crisis team has begun a rehabilitation mission to tsunami-hit Ban Nam Khem in Takua Pa district. The team is tasked with creating databases for fund-raising efforts, restoring community resources and building houses and facilities for wave survivors.
An eight-member US Peace Corps crisis team has begun a rehabilitation mission to tsunami-hit Ban Nam Khem in Takua Pa district. The team is tasked with creating databases for fund-raising efforts, restoring community resources and building houses and facilities for wave survivors.
US Peace Corps team lends a helping hand
ACHADTAYA CHUENNIRAN
Caption: US Peace Corps volunteers are now in tsunami-hit Ban Nam Khem, in Takua Pa district of Phangnga, assisting with rehabilitation work and helping to build new houses for the survivors of the Dec 26 tsunami. — ACHADTAYA CHUENNIRAN
Phangnga _ An eight-member US Peace Corps crisis team has begun a rehabilitation mission to tsunami-hit Ban Nam Khem in Takua Pa district.
The team is tasked with creating databases for fund-raising efforts, restoring community resources and building houses and facilities for wave survivors.
It is the first team of US volunteers to arrive in the area to carry out rehabilitation work. However, scores of US rescuers and disaster relief volunteers travelled to Takua Pa to help right after the tsunami and also to take US survivors back home.
Saundra Schimmelpfennig, 35, from Utah, said the team reached Ban Nam Khem on March 24 and would stay six months to create databases to help in fund raising and to carry out resource development and construction work.
She said they could all speak and understand Thai fairly well and were able to communicate with villagers, state officials and foundation staff.
Ms Schimmelpfennig is responsible for database development and her task is to cooperate with several foundations to gather information and compile it into Thai- and English-language databases.
She will focus on information about the local population, the economy, fisheries, medical care, education and environment along with data on the extent of the tsunami damage in each of the local communities, but particularly the hardest-hit area of Takua Pa.
The databases will be accessible to all so that non-governmental organisations or government offices will be able to use them to find out which communities and families still require help.
Amanda Roelle, 27, from South Carolina said she would help to build child care centres since she had a bachelor's degree in architecture.
Jonathan Markham, 38, from Florida, who worked as a US Peace Corps water resources education volunteer in Thailand from 1990-1993, said he was responsible for resource development and would assess local communities' needs to find out how best to help them.
Peter Montalbano, 61, from California, was a US Peace Corps English teacher in Thailand from 1965-1967. He now works as a senior computer programmer back in the United States and he said his job was database development.
''To work with the villagers, we must adjust ourselves and make best use of the whole six months in Phangnga to benefit them most and complete the database system on time,'' he said.
The US Peace Corps has been running its assistance projects in Thailand since 1962 and, over the years, has sent 4,609 volunteers to work in Thailand. Eighty-six are currently in the country.
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