OPINION

Let's demand more from donations

News, Boonwara Sumano, Published on 10/08/2016

» For the past five years, Charities Aids Foundation (CAF) has been reporting levels of generosity in countries around the world using three categories: giving money, volunteering, and helping strangers. In 2015, Thailand ranked 19th in the CAF World Giving Index for the overall score of 48%. But in the donating money category, Thailand scored as high as 87% and seconded only to Myanmar, which ranked first in the overall CAF index. TDRI's calculation, based on the National Statistical Office's Household Socio-Economic Survey, also found that Thai households are donating more and more money every year, amounting to more than 75 billion baht in 2014, or around 0.6% of the country's GDP that year. These statistics suggest that most Thais are kind and generous when it comes to giving money to others.