Friends and school raise funds for comatose schoolgirl in Chiang Mai

Regina Coeli College and friends of Hiranyikar Luangdaeng, or Mind, have been helping the girl because she is under the solo care of her 82-year-old grandmother after her mother died of cancer and her father left to start a new family.
Since being resuscitated after drowning in a swimming pool on May 19, 2011, the girl has become a "sleeping beauty" dependent on a tracheostomy for oxygen and liquid nutrition.
The grandmother has taken care of Hiranyikar after her mother Omboon Luandaeng, the breadwinner in the family after the father left just four months after his daughter fell comatose, died of cancer in July 2014.
Sompong said she earned a small amount of money from selling khanom thian desserts, but Bt50,000 monthly cost for taking care of her girl, had almost depleted her savings.
The girl's friends from the college, led by chair of the classes, Chalisa Raksilapakij, have been selling T-shirts on a Facebook page “Mine in Mind” for Bt200 each to raise money to help the girl.
Chalisa said the first lot of 500 T-shirts had sold out and her group would make more to sell.
Sister Sirilak Suwaparp, the school director, said the school has been visiting the family and providing help since the accident. They have opened a Siam Commercial bank account (501-423867-9) to accept donations to help the grandma and the girl.