UNICEF Donates 'School In A Box' For Thailand's Flood-affected Students

The supplies or 'School in a Box' is part of the UN agency's policy on supporting global students continual learning despite natural disasters or wars, said UNICEF officer and representative for Thailand Tomoo Hozumi.

Each 'School in a Box' contains notebooks, pencils, pens, rulers, chalks, maps and other learning tools, have been delivered for students of some 1,300 schools in 39 flood-affected Thai provinces in the central and northeastern regions.

Up to 2,500 kits of "School in a Box" have been delivered to small-isolated schools with less than 200 students via provincial primary educational service offices.

The supply kits will enable the flood-affected Thai students to be ready for their new semester this month, even though their school buildings and educational tools were recently damaged by floodwater.

Besides, UNICEF also has handed out sanitary items such as bars of soap, chlorine drops for water purification, alcohol hand-wash gel and 350,000 garbage bags have also been handed out in order to help them prevent any spread of flood-borne communicable diseases.