Using your birthday to help others
Ramathibodi Foundation under the Patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn recently launched the project “Happy Give Day... giving lives to millions on your birthday”.
The aim is to turn everyone’s birthday into a really special day by giving lives to millions others through purchasing birth-month souvenirs featuring works by 12 Thai artists. The proceeds from sales will be used to purchase medical equipment for Chakri Naruebodindra Medical Institute (CNMI), Ramathibodi Hospital.
Celebrities Taksaorn Paksukcharern, Ekkaphong Jongkesakorn and Chantavit Dhanasevi manned the foundation’s activity booths at the launch.
The project’s chairman, Prof Piyamitr Sritara, who is also the dean of the hospital’s medical faculty and serves as president of the Ramathibodi Foundation, said that the brand new Chakri Naruebodindra Medical Institute (CNMI) in Samut Prakan will go into full operation next month, with a service capacity of one million out-patients and 17,000 in-patients per year. CNMI has already opened out-patient clinics both during normal working hours and at special hours, emergency medicine, and some in-patient wards at the 460-bed Ramathibodi Chakri Naruebodindra hospital.
“We still need more than Bt14 billion to purchase such medical equipment as bronchoscopes and digital X-ray machines. This equipment is very important in providing the most effective medical service for the patients,” he said,
Punsiree Kunakornpaiboonsiri, managing director of the Ramathibodi Foundation, added that the foundation has been raising funds for the medical faculty for more than 50 years.
“This campaign takes inspiration from the Thai tradition of making a donation on their birthdays. The foundation invited 12 well-known artists to create drawings and turn them into souvenirs to be sold in their birth month on the theme ‘Giving is...Endless’ just like the kindness of Thais, which is also endless.”
This campaign opens the opportunity for everyone to be “Givers”.
Be a part of giving lives to millions others on your own birthday, or also on your family members’, friends, and loved ones.
Donations can be made to Siam Commercial Bank, Ramathibodi branch, current account no. 026-3-05216-3 or Bangkok Bank, Somdech Phra Debaratana Medical Centre branch, current account no. 090-3-50015-5. Visit www.RamaFoundation.or.th or call (02) 201 1111 to find out more.
The souvenirs are:
May 2018 - Happy Triangle Cap by Thanachai “Pod” Ujjin of Moderndog, Bt299
June 2018 - Encouragement Umbrella, 16–inch umbrella from Thai illustrator Yozanun “‘Suntur:, Bt149
July 2018 - Hope scarf by female illustrator Phannapast “Yuun” Taychamaythakool, Bt399
August 2018 - Digitally printed pillowcase, artwork by watercolourist Yuthaphoom Jeamtua aka Bugboom,
September 2018 - Canvas bag by Chanaradee Chatrakul Na Ayudhya (@julibakerandsummer),
October 2018 – “Give me your hug” scarf and bag by Kantapon Metheekul (@gongkan).
November 2018 Vacuum flask by Ploy Chariyaves
December 2018 – Clutch with artwork by Piyanart Tonmalee or KAPI (@kapiz)
January 2019 – Giving is Endless t-shirt with artwork by Seatapron Korwanichakul
February 2019 – Makeup bags, work of Tanawat Sakdawisarak
March 2019 – Pillow blanket, from Patcharakan Pisansupong (@Plariex)
April 2019 – Digital print satin scarf from Tatchamapan Chanchamrassaeng aka Pomme Chan
