Capstone Report

Capstone Project: Charity For Community Members: Kanyaorn Ruetaijetjaroen 5961221 (Mimi) 1104 Nakamol Sansuktaweesub 5961219 (Gain) 1104 Kanokpon Nagavajara 5961125 (Ploy) 1105

Mentor:​ Mr. Natawut Kalayanamit่ May 24th, 2018

Mahidol University International Demonstration School

Contents Our mission

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Our vision

3

Our history

3

Abstract

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Section 1 – Introduction

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Why these locations?

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How did you identify the problem?

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Possible causes of the problem?

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Medicine and Medical Equipment List

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Section 2 – Fundraising Activities

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Activities

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Financial Statements

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Reflection

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Section 3 – Result

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Section 4 – Further Direction

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Our Mission​: The mission of CFC is to gather the total fund that will provide medicine and medical supplies in the total time length of approximately six months for Sapanmai , Wat dao, and Wat-Karhuha-bodee community and also broadcast their communities for other organization to take place in the future.

Our Vision​: Everyone should be able to receive a satisfactory medical supplies

Our History​: CFC, or Charity for Community, is a non-profit organization created by high school students of MUIDS; Kanyaorn Ruetaijetjaroen, Nakamol Sansuktaweesub, Kanokpon Nagavajara. CFC is a part of MUIDS capstone project, specifically focusing on providing medical supplies that three communities in Bang Plat area are lack of; Sapanmai , Wat dao, and Wat-Karhuha-bodee community.

Abstract​: ​Throughout the years, there are more people living in Bangkok than the suburbs area, as seen in Figure 1, causing financial instability to the government fund, especially for the congested communities. These area contain a large population and often are overlook due to the urban location. The fertility level in Thailand has been decreasing since the past decades, from 6 births per woman(1960s) to 2 births per woman(1990s). The decrease in fertility level in Thailand is currently causing the ageing of the population, which is relevant to the higher demands in healthcare system and medical supplies. Presently, Thai public hospitals are facing shortage in doctors and funding.

Introduction​: The three communities are Sapanmai (300 households, approximately 550 people), Wat dao (500 households, approximately 1050 people), and Wat-Karhuha-bodee community(380 households, approximately 1000 people).

The problems that they are facing is not enough medicine provided from the government, and the poor quality of the medicine from the government. Most of the people in these communities are elders, which most of them are patients that could not help themselves. Thus, with the high population of elders, there are not enough medicine for all of communities.

1. Why these locations?

The three communities that we are focusing on are Chum Chon Sapanmai (ชุมชน สะพานไม)้ , Chom Chon WatDao (ชุมชนวัดดาว), and Chum Chon WatKraruhabodee (ชุมชน วัดคฤหบดี). These three communities located on the Charansanitwong road, in the Bang Phlat area. The communities are currently conjests, limited in space and resources, especially medical resources. Most of the population in the areas are elders, elders that could not help themselves. The medical resources that the government gives does not meet the needs of the population, especially when the majority of the communities are elders. Also, there has not yet been a organization that is able to solve the problem in the topics of medical resources which one of the most prominent topics. The area is also not overly onerous to assess because it located in Bangkok.

The staff of the community are verified in providing basic medical practices in order to take care of the patients in the community.

2. How did you identify the problem?

The location was first to identify, and by the help of Kru Chao, the well-known person that takes care of the children in the areas suggested us to help the destitutions in the three communities, concentrating the elders and people that are in need of medical resources. The survey from us was distributed to the main person in-charge of the medical resources in the

areas, and the conclusion was that the medical resources in the areas are not enough in quantity, variety, and quality. Because the main population are elders that could not help themselves, and they need more resources for the congested communities, and also more complex materials for the elders, which are not provided by the government.

3. Possible causes of the problem?

The problems for the lack in medial resources has several factors. Firstly, lacking in quantity are problems that erupts from the high density of the communities in the limited area. The area also composed with mostly elders that are not able to help themselves, resulting in more needs in medical resources. From the survey of the communities, each person does not receive the complete needs for their medical resources. Secondly, lacking in variety, as stated above, there are many elders in the community, which raises the needs of medical resources. The medical resources provided by the government are just household medicines, which does not complete the need of the elders patients, which need more complex resources. Thirdly, the quality of the medical resources provided by the government are low quality, poor in usage, and does meet the needs of the population in the area. Because of the significant inefficient of the medical resources provided by the government, they request for the more efficient ones.

Medicine List:

Medical Resource(ยา)

Size (ขนาด)

Amount per Month(

Price (ราคา)

ปริ มาณ/จาํ นวนตอ่ เดือน) 1. ​Feeding bags + Tubes

1 dozen of sets

432 baht

2.Normal Saline solution

100ml

1 dozen ​of bottles

35 baht per bottle

3. ​Alcohol

30 ml

1 dozen of bottles

72 baht per bottle

4. ​Gauz

4*4

2 packs

19 baht per pack (1pack = 176 pieces)

5. ​Cotton balls

Large

1 dozen of bags

40g 17baht 100g 41 baht

6. ​Steri-Dress

Set

3 dozens of sets

16 baht per set

7. ​Latex glove

Size S

2 packs

100 baht per pack

3 dozens of tubes

600 baht

1 dozen of bottles

30 baht per bottle

1 dozen of bottels

144 baht

1 L packs

1338 baht per pack

8. ​Counterpain balm(cool) 9. Betadine

15 cc

10. Mist salol et menthol 11. Pampers (Kid)

L, M

1 M packs

12. Pampers (Elder)

4 packs of Ls,

4 L packs, 6 M packs

6 packs of Ms

13. Calamine lotion

L = 680 per pack M = 1020 per pack

1 dozens of packs

156 baht

(8 bottle per pack) 14. Herniated Disc cream

2 dozens of tubes

1440 baht per dozen

15. Mask

1 pack

720 baht

16. Muscle relaxant (Kasai

2 packs

264 baht per pack

17. Wheelchair

1

2,590 baht

18. Herniated Disc (seating

4 sheets

550 baht per sheet

2

1690 baht per unit

4 gallons

1320 per gallon

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sheet) 19. BP monitoring machines 20. Dettol

Fundraising Activities​:

BUSKING -

We made a mini concert for people at Siam Square and gained money from whoever walked pass by.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfzgf_AijMQ

ASKING FOR DONATION

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We had 3 recycled boxes to ask people for donation.

MOBILE BANKING -

We let people such as friends and parents to support us by making money transaction.

LINE @ -

We created Official Line account for people to send their slips and ask questions directly to us

Evidence of Transaction:

Reflection: Day1 The goal of today’s activity is to broadcast our project, CFC or Charity of Community, and also gather maximum donations. Firstly, separated the work at first to minimize the time of preparation for the activity, so that there would be enough time for us to find donations. We distributed to print and laminate the posters, finalize decorations of the donation boxes, and borrow the school’s amplifier. Throughout each task, there are some complications we needed to overcome. The printing actions took place smoothly, but that situation is opposite of laminating. The laminating machine is impaired, and took about 15-25 minutes to warm up before utilizations of it could occur. The situation is outside of our plan, because if it is too late, people will go home and that would be difficult for us to gather enough donations. The donation box had been decorated properly beforehand. There was only a little finalizing needed, this process went smoothly. Because we planned to do a busking on the weekend at Siam, where the population is highly dense and has a high probability to gather most donations, we had to borrow the school’s amplifier. This process was considered as the most complex and required most time of all processes. There needed to be a borrowing form with a formal format, which needed to be signed by our mentor then approved by the school. Unfortunately, the person that usually approves this certain form was absence, so we went to Dr. Steve. With the help of Dr. Steve we were able to borrow the school’s amplifier successfully, but the process took about 35-45 minutiae to complete. With the limited time, the broadcasting and gathering of the donations needed to be quickly accomplished. We quickly posted the poster in the hallways and sent the picture file

of the poster into different line groups. We walk around to broadcast our project and we received satisfying results. There were varieties of people that donated to our charity, including students, teachers, staffs, and maids. There were many questions about our project and I think those questions help improve our visions and mission of our charity. There are many thing we’ve learned from today. Firstly, we learn that time management is very prominent, there needed to be a complex planning in time management to achieve the wanted goals. Secondly, teamwork skills are also important. We had to communicated to reach the wanting results. We had to planned together to know what suits our team, for us separating work and later combining them is the best strategy for our team. Day 2 We organized the fund raising activities in order to gain money for the community. We went to the crowded places like Siam because we thought we would gained more money. Our group decided to do busking in the public area because it is something we are affordable as a student. To be honest, it was quite tough because we need wrote the letter and sent the letter to the school’s staff to borrow the speaker and the microphone. Moreover, we would give the community service hours to the people in the school who came to help us with the activity as well. It went well though, people who walked passed by donated us some money. We keep yelling and singing without resting because we hoped that our potential would make us gained more money, the more we got the money was the more we could help the community as much as possible. Luckily, it looks like it was going to rain but it was not, we continue with the busking until 4.00 P.M. After that we recorded the total amount that we have collected on that day which it was 5,547.25 baht. And we were satisfied with the result. Day 3

Our goals were to find all medicines from the listed requested by the communities and also to give them to the communities. We started early in the morning, and we had to be away from school. The traffic was terrible on that day that some of our schedule delayed. We went to drug store called ‘Fascino’ near Siriraj Hospital. The staff who helped us was very kind and nice. We had some trouble with calculation of all medicine expenditure. It took a lot of time to calculate the total over and over again. We were also busy with writing messages telling people not to send no more money to us. Three of us went there with Mimi’s mom. We helped each other carry all the stuff which was heavy and we also got some help by the staff. Unexpectedly, the car we came by was full; we needed to transfer some stuff into the taxi. It was difficult to sit inside the car and it was raining outside. Finally, we met the people from the communities which were Teacher Chao, Auntie staff and Uncle Foo. They helped us moving stuff down and put it inside a small cottage which as to be their public health department. They told us that they really appreciated what we did for them. The medical supply and medicines were needed at a massive amount and some of the local people could not offer. They were truly thankful. We felt proud of ourselves that we could make them happy and at least help them to lighten their load. We realized after doing the whole thing that finding money was not easy and we should value it. This project has provided us lots of benefits and made us reflect ourselves in various aspects of life.

Result​:

Income

Outcome

Busking

5,547.25

Medical Supplies

-74,478

Asking for donation

39,586.41

Donated by cash

-6,156.75

Mobile Banking

35,501.09

Total

80,634.75

Total

-80,634.75

Note: 6 months (estimated months for the use of the medical supplies)

Initially, we expected the rate of money donated to be 20,000 baht or less. To our surprise, the busking and mobile banking went out outstandingly. We got 5,547.25 baht from busking and 35,501.09 baht from mobile banking. We did not expect the announcement about the donation to be spread quickly and widely.

Every task has been done, but we had little time for busking due to the rain. As a matter of fact, we did achieve our goals and all tasks were finished in time expected.

Further Directions We actually cannot control the weather. All we can do is to find some better place under cover. Our long term solution is that after introducing the communities we have visited, we will give their contacts to other people such as parents who desire to make some extra donation on their own. As we can see that some of the communities, despite being located in Bangkok, are neglected. The government should explore and go through more some of these communities and provide them some help financially to make Thailand a better place.