Published ‘Siriraj Volunteer Center’ was set up and operates under Siriraj Corporate Social Responsible Division. It focuses on creating ‘sustainable volunteering’ and established itself as a hub of organizations for any cooperation and contribution to society. It’s also created the ‘volunteer management system’, developing and enhancing the capacity of each organization in order to maintain the relationship between organizations and volunteers. It also created networking between government organizations, state enterprises, private sectors, and independent organizations, to actively involved in the contribution to the society in order to create the maximum benefits for the Thai community in sustainable ways.
The project started from December 2019 – September 2020 at the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital by having many inside and outside stakeholders and participants as below,
Inside of Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University
– Department of Transfusion Medicine (Transfusion Medicine Volunteer)
– Siriraj Pain Management Unit, Department of Anesthesiology (volunteers for ‘the Safety for my patients’: to assist the patients who are unable to support themselves)
– Siriraj Public Relations and Special Affairs Division (volunteers for put a folded New Year Happiness card into an envelope, volunteers for Mahidol Day ceremony, volunteers for Siriraj Public Relations Journal Editorial, volunteers for Mahachat Sermon Preaching on the 131st founding anniversary of Siriraj Hospital)
– Siriraj Corporate Social Responsible Division (summer volunteers/volunteers at Siriraj’s 2nd semester break/volunteers for the Memorial Day of His Majesty the Late King Bhumibhol Adulyadej/volunteers for sewing fabric bags/musician volunteers/free barber volunteers)
Outside of Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University
– Khon Thai Foundation (Our Hands for Better Thailand Project)
– Jitarsa Bank
– Mahidol Volunteer Center
Objectives
- Siriraj Volunteer Center act as a hub of organizations’ cooperation and contribution for the society, supporting the operation for volunteers i.e. medical and healthcare services, blood transfusion, patient relations, environment conservation etc.
- Create the ‘sustainable volunteering system’ with the potential of each organization
- Be a center of volunteer activities and for those who interested in volunteer activities both inside and outside the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University
Activities
- Be a consultant on Siriraj’s volunteer operations
- P.R. the news/events and the recruitment for the volunteers of Siriraj’s volunteer activities
- Volunteer activities both inside and outside of the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital such as musicians volunteers, music volunteer, Bangkok Noi Canal Development volunteers, landscape management volunteers, volunteers for ‘Bangkok-Noi Model’ field data collection
The project was well attended as from the start to the end there were around 10,000 volunteers participated in the center (1,300 internal and 9,000 external participants).
