January 4, 2005: Crisis Corps has received applications from 31 RPCVs to serve with Crisis Corps in the rebuilding effort in Southern Thailand. Crisis Corps is amazed and gratified by the response to the call for volunteers.
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January 4, 2005: Crisis Corps has received applications from 31 RPCVs to serve with Crisis Corps in the rebuilding effort in Southern Thailand. Crisis Corps is amazed and gratified by the response to the call for volunteers.
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Crisis Corps has received applications from 31 RPCVs to serve with Crisis Corps in the rebuilding effort in Southern Thailand. Crisis Corps is amazed and gratified by the response to the call for volunteers.
Crisis Corps has received applications from 31 RPCVs to serve with Crisis Corps in the rebuilding effort in Southern Thailand. Crisis Corps is amazed and gratified by the response to the call for volunteers.
Friends of Thailand has been in e-mail and phone contact with Peace Corps' Crisis Corps office since last week. Today, we learned that 31 people have submitted applications to serve with Crisis Corps in the rebuilding effort in Southern Thailand. The people at Crisis Corps are amazed, and gratified, by the response to the call for volunteers.
And so is FoT. We had heard from 5 or 6 people that they had contacted Crisis Corps or were thinking of doing so and thought that number was good. Now this. Given that Thailand is the only Peace Corps country affected by the earthquake/tsunami and is, therefore, the only country in which Crisis Corps will conduct operations, the fact that 31 of you have committed to dropping whatever you are doing now to return to Thailand to provide assistance is a truly wonderful thing.
Whomever you are, you are remarkable. And you will be representing many more of us who are not in a position to consider travelling to Thailand at this time. Thank you!
But that does not seem to be the final word.
It may be that Crisis Corps will be able to establish some sort of fund to which Friends of Thailand and other interested parties may donate money for the rebuilding effort in Thailand. Please understand that this is not a sure thing at this point in time, but they have said they will contact us when they know more.
And Barbara Steckler of Thai XI wrote the following today, "You mentioned a few months or so ago that there were plans being made for a reunion of Thai volunteers in July in Chiang Mai. Would it be more appropriate to have the reunion set up as a work project of some sort in the affected areas? Maybe a 2-4 week project rebuilding a school or community health center or something like that??? It would certainly be a productive reunion and a feeling of being able to contribute more than money. We can't join the Crisis Corps for 2-3 months, as much as we would love to, but with planning ahead it might be possible to come for 2-3 weeks in the summer."
Perhaps others of you who were thinking of travelling to Chiang Mai would be interested in adding this to the itinerary.
Please let us know what you think. We are still in the process of communicating with certain parties in Thailand to discover if there is a school (or health center) in Southern Thailand that was damaged or destroyed by the tsunami that FoT might adopt. When that develops further, we will get the word out.
In the meantime, thank you to everyone for being such wonderful people.
And if you would like to consider becoming a member of Friends of Thailand, I include a 2005 membership form at the end of this message.
Peace,
Carolyn Nickels-Cox
Thai 34
carolynnickels AT earthlink DOT net
When this story was posted in January 2005, this was on the front page of PCOL:
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