from facebook....
did another donation goods buy tonight...got the families
2 - bags of rice
11 - pairs of socks, for both boys and girls
24 - cans of fish
8 - cans of another type of fish
11 - pairs of socks, for both boys and girls
24 - cans of fish
8 - cans of another type of fish
COST 1341 Baht
In a second buy tonight
2 - antibiotic cream
2 - muscle pain cream - reduces swelling
1 - alcohol
1 - bandage-gauge
1 - medical tape
2 - muscle pain cream - reduces swelling
1 - alcohol
1 - bandage-gauge
1 - medical tape
COST 270 Baht
I bought the food to hand out to the families. Will do another 1 or 2 bags of donation food tomorrow (each bag continues, rice, canned fish, noodles and toiletry items)
The medicine is for 2 people The 2 extra bottles (one antibiotic, 1 pain relief) I will hand out to the next people who ask me to help with medicines.
The 1st container of muscle pain cream is for a man who fell off his bicycle. The antibiotic cream, bandage, alcohol is for helping a young boy from the Win family who has a bad cut, hole in his leg, which is probably infected (see photo). I hope the medicine helps him. I will give it to his mother tomorrow and try to explain as best I can how to use everything.
2 pairs of socks are for the young girl I saw working the garbage with a cloth tied round her foot today (she had no socks). I will hand out the rest of the socks to other people at random. Never thought about buying socks before, but its a good item to donate, light, small, easy for me to carry, as well as needed and useful to those working the garbage. I am 55 years old now, carrying stuff through the garbage is more and more difficult, rice is DAMN HEAVY!! So socks works for me 
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Note* I also gave a man 20 baht today along with all the donations of foods, headlamps, boots etc. I will add the money totals to the running spent donation money link on the left of my blog page.
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| All the buys from today (tomorrow more headlamps). We (the donators and I) bought the families in the dump, rice, 2 types of fish, socks and medicines. |
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| Antibiotic cream for the young Win boy. |
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| Wound on the young Win boys leg. |
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| The young Win boy who has the infected leg wound. He was walking barefoot through the dump this morning when I made this photo. I have been photographing him and his family in the dump for the last 6 years. He always smiled before, filled with joy, but his life seems to have taken a turn for the worse. His father and mother now live apart. His father was also injured in an accident while working the garbage ( a large digging machine cut into his leg, hurting him. |
