Release book 'And Then One Morning' by Aaron le Boutillier

The author of a new book recalling the tsunami incident at Ko Phi Phi island gave a presentation at Satree Phuket School to help raise funds & awareness. Lets find out more in this special report:

The Phuket release of a Book called And Then One Morning by Aaron le Boutillier, was held on Friday 24th October at the Satree Phuket High School with the Tourist Police, family and friends. The morning of the title refers to December 26, 2004. As that day dawned around the world, news stories followed a disaster that took hours to unfold as the tsunami raced across the vast Indian Ocean. For anyone caught up in the tsunami, however, it was all over in a matter of minutes. They were either alive or dead. Over a quarter of a million people lost their lives while millions who survived had to deal with the tragedy in countless ways.
Aaron le Boutillier was one such survivor. Aaron was on the Thai island of Koh Phi Phi where he had lived and worked through much of the nineties. Although settled in Singapore now, Aaron made regular visits to the island. And Then One Morning encapsulates the expat life on the small tropical island and introduces the reader to the main characters who either survived or perished in the tsunami. Chief amongst these is the Oswald family. Heinz Oswald spent eighteen years developing a successful dive business on Phi Phi. Aaron visited Phi Phi that Christmas to help Heinz and his family move to Phuket on the afternoon of December 26. That move never happened.
Hours after the tsunami, Aaron found Heinzs wife and four year old son alive.
There is relief and surprise as other characters are found alive. But for the next
two weeks there is the trauma of the search for Heinz and his two daughters.
And Then One Morning captures Aarons growth from a care-free twenty-two
year old into a successful business owner in Singapore by the time of the
tsunami. Following the tsunami he took responsibility to help the survivors of the
Oswald family as well as other friends from the island.
Four years on there are still people suffering from the tsunami in a multitude of
ways. Aaron has decided that the author royalties from the sale of his book
should go to helping some of those still traumatised by the disaster & to support various foundations in the South of Thailand.
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Big Wave Publications pays him 12% royalties and it is these profits that he is using exclusively to help in various charities. He is hoping by Xmas 2008 that sales will be sufficient enough to post his first photos and testimonials of the funds handed over.
During the Bangkok Book Launch he met Mr. Nattawat from the Satree Phuket High School. They kindly offered to host the Phuket book launch and Aaron donated 100% of the profits from the sale of the book that day to Satree School. After that he will use the 12% to support their orphanage. In 2009, he hopes to work with Mr Pong Chongchit from the Thailand Tsunami Education centre for Life.

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[OllyMakassar2011]

Bravo Aaron!!

[uciov]

A great book. A must read!

[waggadee]

The best of luck to you from Colin & Brenda in Jersey

[michellerajoo]

He babe,

Congrats on the book & video.. excellent.

Good luck with your good work.

Michelle

[thaimate]

hi Aaron

congratulations,just saw the vid,keep up the good work.

Geoff

Pattaya.