Give-Take Project: Creating Good Deeds and Expanding Sharing Spaces
Bangkok University is moving forward to create a society of sharing and sustainability through the “Give-Take” project - a donation program that collects unused or surplus items to share and benefit others.
This project is part of expanding sharing spaces within the university campus. Bangkok University serves as an intermediary in receiving various donated items and forwarding them to organizations in need, while cultivating a spirit of giving and social responsibility among students. Items requested for donation in this project include:
- Paper bags, A4 wrapping paper, and cloth bags - forwarded to hospitals for medicine packaging
- Plastic drinking straws - used to make tube pillows to prevent pressure sores for bedridden patients
- Expired cosmetics and secondhand cosmetics - expired cosmetics are given to volunteer corpse makeup artists and the "Bringing Loved Ones Home" project, while unexpired cosmetics are donated to Teacher Oat's Volunteer Request (Baan Nok Kamin Foundation) and the Beauty Sharing Project
- Single-sided used A4 paper - recycled into new notebooks
- Books, magazines, and English newspapers - forwarded to the Volunteer Books for Siblings project to be made into new notebooks for underprivileged children at volunteer homes under the Rural Reconstruction Foundation of Thailand under Royal Patronage. Good-condition books are sent to community libraries
- Clothing, shoes, bags, jewelry, dolls, and children's toys - forwarded to the Merit Room of the Thai Red Cross Society and remote rural communities
- Old lottery tickets - forwarded to disabled groups, disability caregivers, and elderly people in Kung Taphao Subdistrict, Uttaradit Province, to make funeral flowers for sale, creating income for families and communities
The " Give-Take" project exemplifies integrated operations that combine multiple SDG targets, including: reducing waste disposal, decreasing resource consumption for new product manufacturing, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from production processes and waste management, supporting health, enhancing educational opportunities, and creating income for vulnerable groups.
Beyond item forwarding, this project instills values of giving and good conscience in students, serving as a model for driving SDGs at the university level to create positive change and lead to truly sustainable development.
