Bangkok--17 Nov--AIT
Complimenting the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) for its recovery operations after facing its worst ever disaster, Chubu University, Japan, has decided to contribute one million Yen towards disaster recovery for AIT.
In a letter to the AIT President, Prof. Said Irandoust, Prof. Kiyoshi Honda of Chubu University, stated that he was “very impressed” with AIT’s recovery operation. He stated that the Chairman of the Board of Chubu University, Prof. Iiyoshi Atsuo; the University President, Prof. Amashita Okitsugu; Prof. Inasaki Ichiro of the Chubu Institute of Advanced Studies; Prof. Fukui Hiromichi of the International GIS Center, and many others are fully aware of the conditions at AIT, and that they would like to extend their sympathy to AIT.
Further, Chubu University has decided to contribute one million yen (around 390,000 Baht) to help recovery operations in AIT. Prof. Honda, who also serves as visiting faculty at AIT, stated that he will be visiting AIT in December 2011 to personally hand over the letter from Chubu University to the AIT President.
Earlier Prof. Honda was instrumental in setting up a Thailand flood site, which can be accessed at this link: http://de21.digitalasia.chubu.ac.jp/floodmap/.
This is the first major contribution by a partner University to AIT to help it in recovery operations. Apart from this, students from University of Bor?s, Sweden, have launched a fund raising drive for helping rebuild the flood ravaged AIT.