Phuket Community Foundation

The PCF is looking for experts who can help some of our grant recipients improve their techniques or products. We have some ideas on who to contact for help, but if you think you would like to give up some of your time, do let us know. Here’s what’s needed:

Can you improve on this label for coconut oil?

1. Bottling Expertise. The Herbal Drinks Group of Rawai make drinks form local herbs such as lemon grass and pandanus leaf, but they currently put these drinks into cheap plastic bottles which are not attractive, and which may give rise to health concerns about chemicals leaching from the plastic into the drinks. They believe that glass would be better, and would broaden their market, but do not have the expertise to make the switch.

The person or company we are looking for will be an expert in bottling drinks – including sterilising the bottles, the pros and cons of various bottle closures, and possibly setting up systems for bottle returns. If you are this person/company and you want to help, please contact us.

2. Graphic Design. The same group also need professionally designed labels for their drinks, so we are looking for a graphic artist to come up with a label that will be attractive to buyers.

Another group also needs graphic design work. This is the Cold Compressed Coconut Oil Group, also in Rawai. They have a supply of bottles, but the design of the labels could do with improvement.

If you are a graphic designer and would like to help either or both of these groups, please contact us.

3. Ornamental design. The Kala Rawai Group make decorative items and souvenirs from coconut shell. They recognise that their products are not particularly well designed or well made, and are looking for help to make improvements.

If you can help with designs sophisticated enough to be sold through souvenir shops in five-star hotels, for example, and if you can teach these people how to make them, then you are just the person they need. Please contact us.