Living Waters Phuket Foundation

Community Foundation
Living Waters Phuket is a brand-new Foundation which was set up to build brighter futures for communities in need. It provides financial grants to projects around essential relief areas including sustainable food security, education, renewable energy and environmental issues. It was established to help registered charities, foundations, private companies and government organisations by funding community projects.

Building Brighter Futures
Shaun Stenning, CEO of 5 Star Marine explains the concept: “Phuket has needed a credible and well thought-out foundation for years, so we decided to set one up. Living Waters Phuket has been majority funded by 5 Star Marine to carry forward the ‘Life Bag’ food charity work we undertook since the start of the pandemic, helping over 400,000 families during this time. Living Waters Phuket will continue on in our community with this work and build new opportunities by providing grants to help fund sustainable solutions to food security, education and environmental issues.”

A Natural Extension
Living Waters Phuket was born as a natural extension to, and formed a strategic transition from the last two years’ worth of relief efforts by 5 Star Marine. It sits in synergy as the next stage, where the foundation can continue these efforts and provide a more long-term, sustainable and ongoing means to continue providing relief via funds for projects where the community needs the most help.

Sustainable Support
The foundation has already been involved in supporting sustainable farming and food production education programmes, one of which was for the Kathu Wittaya School. This long-term initiative is designed around teaching nearly 1,000 children about producing food, with all food grown being donated to a local orphanage. This also aims to give these children the skills to be self-sufficient and take this knowledge back to their communities in the hope of a better future.

Education Assistance for Disadvantaged Children
Living Waters Phuket has funded a project to allow Phuket Has Been Good To Us (PHBGTU) to purchase new IT equipment in order to be able to deliver their English classes for free to over 500 disadvantaged children. This has enabled teachers to be able to deliver higher quality lessons, printed materials and content using this brand-new equipment. This initiative aims to help students progress further with their education, giving them a brighter future for employment options.

First of a Kind Grant Collaboration
Living Waters Phuket granted a financial aid package for over 88,700 ‘Super Life Packs’ which contain enough staple food items to feed a family of four people for one whole week. This effort included a staggering 44 tonnes of rice, along with noodles, tinned fish, and nearly 9,000 litres of cooking oil and sauces. This financially funded project marks the largest single food bag donation to date.

Grants are currently and continuously being awarded to community groups, Not-For-Profit organisations (NFPOs) and individuals who want to help the community by finding solutions to sustainable food security, education, renewable energy and environmental issues.

The independent board of advisors at Living Waters Phuket will review each grant application objectively, fairly and impartially. Please visit www.livingwatersphuket.com for more information and for access to the grant application form. With many more grants being awarded each week, there are a lot of exciting opportunities to help the communities in need, here in Phuket and beyond.