PHUKET: This is Yupin Sengmuang, who helped two young British children escape personal tragedy on Phuket in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami almost 10 years ago.

Khun Yupin and her husband Pitchat drove youngsters Emily and Ben Willgrass all the way to Bangkok from Phuket to help the two tourist children get away from the most miserable event of their young lives.

Thanks to Facebook and the Khao Sod newspaper, the Willgrass children - now grownups - are likely to be reunited with Yupin and Pitchat when they fly to Thailand late this week.

There will be plenty of media attention on the tsunami and the amazing generosity of the couple in the wake of Thailand's worst-ever natural disaster, which killed 5400 people.

Over the next six months leading up to the tenth anniversary of the tragedy, many other stories of heroism and helping will emerge. In Thailand, those two attributes come naturally.

The police and forensic teams who flew to Thailand from all over the world in 2005 to help identify about 3000 nameless bodies agreed that the caring approach of the Thai people was remarkable.

No other country in the world could have coped because no other country has such responsive, generous people in a crisis, Phuketwan's reporters were told time and time again.

It's great news that Emily and Ben have found the couple who helped them.

And that their mother Louise, who died along with about 30 others when the big wave swamped a downstairs convenience store in Patong's beach road, will be properly remembered.

Family members have already generously named a woodland area at a school in the British county of Norwich in her honor.

One remaining issue for families, volunteers and Thai Tsunami Victim Identification team members who will be returning to mark the 10th anniversary of the tsunami on December 26 is how they can expect Thailand to commemorate the special event.

The generosity of the Thai people amazed the rest of the world and the rest of the world gave generously to help Thailand.

Days later, it was revealed that an astonishing total of 220,000 people had perished in 12 countries.

Because so many people around the world first heard about the way tourists and Thais has been affected on Phuket and along the Andaman coast, where people from about 42 countries were among the victims, the rest of the world donated record amounts of cash and equipment.

The remaining question is, how will the 10th anniversary be marked in Thailand? The generosity of the Thai people and the rest of the world were astonishing.

The forensics teams performed a scientific first in managing to identify all except 388 of the thousands of victims in Thailand.

There will be memorial services along the Andaman coast in the Swedish language and the German language, because both those countries lost about 540 men, women and children to the big wave.

But what will Thailand do to commemorate all 5400 victims, on Phuket and along the Thai coast?

The search by Ben and Emily and the generosity of Yupin and Pitchat shows how much there is not just to commemorate, but also to celebrate.