Teams are working in the hardest hit southern provinces of Pang Nga, Krabi, Ranong, Phuket and Trang to assist the victims medicines first aid kits and other essential items.
Basic needs for immediate survival is the focus. Thousands are dead and many more have been left homeless.
CARE is providing basic medicines and equipment to health care workers; and distributing first aid kits, oral rehydration salts, water, clothing, candles and bedding directly to disaster victims.
These activities will prevent starvation and the worst of water-borne disease; provide temporary shelter.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).