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Australian Embassy helps
Rotary Club with Clean Drinking Water Programme
The Australian Embassy Bangkok recently provided funding of 260,000 Baht to the Rotary Club of Bangkok South to support the Clean Drinking Water in Provincial School’s Programme. Ms Bronte Moules, Deputy Head of the Australian Embassy, presented the cheque to Mr Graham Brain, Chairperson of the Rotary Club of Bangkok South.
The funding, made available under the Australian Embassy Discretionary Fund, will be used to install four water purification systems in provincial schools in Buriram, Surin, Sisaket and Phrae provinces, providing safe and clean drinking water to over 900 students and surrounding communities.
Normally children in remote schools obtain drinking water from rainfall stored in tanks, water trucked in during the dry season, wells or municipal systems. For the most part this water is not treated or is improperly treated.
In presenting the cheque to the Rotary Club, Ms Moules said the Australian Embassy Discretionary Fund is “a small way that Australia is able to assist non-profit organisations in Thailand to alleviate basic humanitarian hardships, to help children and disadvantaged groups, and to support education, rural development and poverty alleviation”.
The Australian Embassy Discretionary Fund is available to community groups and NGOs engaged in development activities in Thailand on a not-for-profit basis. It is primarily aimed at supporting small-scale development projects and activities. In the 2007-08 financial year, the Australian Embassy Discretionary Fund will fund a number of projects across Thailand.