Help us- Help them! Donations for buying food for the locals in Koh Phangan Thailand

Fundraising campaign by Heidi Madsen
  • ฿194,535
    raised of ฿500,000.00 goal goal
38% Funded
100 Donors
Raised offline: ฿20,000.00
Total: ฿214,535.00

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Help us - Help them!

As many of you know the tourist industry is suffering during Covid-19. This is also the case for our paradise island Koh Phangan. Many of the local Burmese and Thai people have from one day to the next lost their jobs and their livelihoods. This also goes for our staff in Same Same Guesthouse. So we are experiencing this tough situation first hand. Therefore we make this fundraiser to reach out for help to our local community.

As the situation is now most locals have already used their last finances and there is no possibility to earn money or find work. this could be the situation for the rest of 2020. We want to help with the most basic needs such as food and water etc.

The money donated here goes 100% to buying food and water supplies for the people in need (local Burmese and Thai people) in Koh Phangan.

Our staff which many of you have a personal relation to are amongst the effected.We do not have the . finances to provide for them as the situation is now, where it is impossible to predict the future and know when tourist will return to our island.

The Burmese people are suffering the most. There is no social security. No Government funds. No options to return home while the borders are shot. Only donations make it possible for them to survive

We, Heidi and Christina, wish more than anything that our Burmese staff and family and the other locals here on the island, still will be here safe and healthy the day you return.

Even a small donation makes a huge difference. For only 70 baht you can feed 1 person for a day!

Help Us - Help Them!

Organizer

  • Heidi Madsen
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  • Campaign Owner

Donors

  • Lisbet Schlichting
  • Donated on May 25, 2020
฿1500.00
  • Ivar Bakker
  • Donated on May 25, 2020
฿1000.00
฿1000.00
May 31

Where will it go from here?

Update posted by Heidi Madsen at 06:10 am

❤💛It has been a month now with our fundraiser and we have recieved so much more Support, Kindness and Understanding, that we ever could have imagined!!!The mission was to be able to make a difference for a few people. But we have actually been able to make a difference for. . . . .

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May 31

Food delivery

Update posted by Heidi Madsen at 05:49 am

Since some of the people stay in remote areas and have no access to transportation. We have made our way to see them and deliver them the donation bags.These people are former Same Same staff, family members or acquitances to our Staff. That is how we know them and their

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May 31

Fundraiser update

Update posted by Heidi Madsen at 05:39 am

Photo from our donation 24th of May.Once again we had 500 people lining up to recieve food donation bags. The bags consisted of Rice, Noodles, Eggs and Onions.This time people showed up 3 hours early!!!!!! It was not easy to get all those people to queue up. But we had. . . . .

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May 23

Food shopping

Update posted by Heidi Madsen at 10:49 am

Went shopping today for noodles, rice, onions and eggs. 2 trucks full of food for our big donation round tomorrow afternoon.We bought food for more than 500 people. And it should last them all 7-10 days.We expect it to be a even longer line of people than last time. The. . . . .

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May 19

Donations to these beautiful kids🍀💕

Update posted by Heidi Madsen at 06:36 am

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May 17

Reflections

Update posted by Heidi Madsen at 06:43 am

We are so happy with the massive support this fundraiser has recieved. It is so much more than we ever expected going into this. So we actually needed a bit of time to process the whole thing and to plan how to go from here. It is simply amazing that. . . . .

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May 12

Donations Round 2

Update posted by Heidi Madsen at 04:10 am

Dear All.We are so very happy to see that donations are still coming. We will make another donation round next week. We have handed out food donations to the locals in haad rin town to last them 7-10 days. We will keep you posted💙

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May 10

Donations by boat

Update posted by Heidi Madsen at 08:00 am

Yesterday we packed the rest of the food donations, put it on a boat and went to the more remote beaches Haad Yuan and Why Nam to donate to the locals in need.You can mostly reach these beaches by boat. So we thought it was better to bring the food. . . . .

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May 08

Wow

Update posted by Heidi Madsen at 02:45 pm

❤It is very rare that we are speechless, but what we have witnessed today, has really put things in perspective and it is actually hard to put into words what we have experienced. The desperation for food is undescribable! In less than 20 minutes 450 kids and adults were waiting. . . . .

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May 08

You make a BIG difference💙

Update posted by Heidi Madsen at 02:39 pm

❤Thanx to ALL your amazing donations to our fundraiser, we are now able to put our words into action. As you can see in the videos below we were able to buy a lot of food supplies yesterday! Even more than we ever dreamed of!! Last night our Same Same. . . . .

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Donors & Comments

100 donors
  • Lisbet Schlichting
  • Donated on May 25, 2020
฿1500.00
  • Ivar Bakker
  • Donated on May 25, 2020
฿1000.00
฿1000.00
฿1000.00
  • Lars Schønnemann
  • Donated on May 21, 2020
  • Very good initiative girls 👏👏👏👍👍

฿5000.00
  • Sara Skotte-Nielsen
  • Donated on May 21, 2020
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  • Lukasz Poland
  • Donated on May 18, 2020
฿1000.00
  • Marg Helback
  • Donated on May 17, 2020
  • Good work

฿3000.00
  • Ole Andreasen
  • Donated on May 16, 2020
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  • Jessica Matthews
  • Donated on May 13, 2020
  • Thank you for all that you are doing, especially for the most vulnerable, including the Burmese people who do so much of the toughest work.

฿1000.00
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Followers

33 followers
Lisbet Schlichting
Lizz Dubbelman
Gitte Borup
Lotte Berger Hansen
Allan Resting
Kristian Esko
Simon Stieper
Martin Kubanyi
Thor Pontoppidan
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฿194,535
raised of ฿500,000.00 goal
38% Funded
100 Donors
Raised offline: ฿20,000.00
Total: ฿214,535.00

No more donations are being accepted at this time. Please contact the campaign owner if you would like to discuss further funding opportunities