BANGKOK, 6 December 2011 – Nearly 100,000 students at more than 1,300 schools severely damaged in the recent floods will be helped to get back to learning soon due to the provision of “school in a box” kits from UNICEF, the organization said today.
The 2,500 “school in a box” kits being provided by UNICEF, which contain teaching and learning supplies such as notebooks, pencils, rulers, chalks, markers, maps and posters, will allow lessons to begin as schools are being repaired or refurbished.
The kits, each of which provides sufficient materials for one teacher and up to 40 students, are being distributed via Education Area Service Offices to small, flood-damaged schools in 39 central and north eastern provinces, including Ayutthaya, Nakhon Sawan, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani and Roi-et. All of the schools receiving kits have less than 200 students each and are located in poor and remote communities.