Help may be sought from UNESCO

Education Minister Worawat Auapinyakul may ask UNESCO at a meeting in France later this month to send volunteers to repair flood-damaged schools during the Christmas and New Year period.
Worawat told reporters after meeting with newly appointed German Ambassador Rolf Peter Gottfried Schulze yesterday that Germany, besides donating 100,000 euros (Bt4.2 million) to repair Ayutthaya’s world heritage site and assist flood relief works, offered to host a project to get volunteers with technical skills to help with post-flood rehabilitation during the Christmas/New Year period.
The ministry thus would also invite other countries to join this project and so far Germany, France and Japan had expressed interest to join in.
The ministry would call for help at the UNESCO meeting in France, he said. Meanwhile, they would gather information about damaged schools so that volunteers – whose food costs and accommodation would be covered by the government throughout their seven- to 10-day stay – could be sent to lend a hand.