Recent floods and landslides have affected many parts of the Krabi province where GVI teaching projects are based. GVI staff and volunteers would like to be able to contribute something to the families that have lost so much from the effects of the disaster. Any donations will be used to purchase clothing, furnishing or to make minor repairs on destruction to family homes.

See below for a letter from one Ao Nang local. We would like to provide assistance for her family as well as other families like these that can not afford to quickly bounce back the effects of the flood

"On the evening of 29th March 2011 a disastrous flood hit the province of Krabi in Southern Thailand and most of the rest of the Malay Peninsula. Mud slides devastated several areas north of the provincial capital, and the Krabi River, as result of such burden, flooded a huge mass of mud and water that submerged an extensive area of the city. Several hundred people, mainly from the surrounding countryside, are still missing.

Janram Warndee, founder of the no-profit organization The Krabi Enduro Team, and her family have suffered an unfortunate inundation that thanks god, without life casualties, has however left her house wrecked. The only family’s financial support; Janram’sThailand Off-Road Adventures motorcycle and bicycle company has been struck by the same fate, and all the motorcycles and equipment have been buried in thick mud. This disaster has resulted in a deadly blow to Janram’s hard earned attempt to establish an off-road activity that is unique in his kind in this part of the Malay Peninsula.

Janram is kindly asking for help. Please do whatever you can do for her, and most than anything else, come to ride with us when she will have the bikes able to run again.

I sincerely appreciate your concern.

Janram"

Thank you in advance for your contribution!