On August 9, 2021, Labour Minister Mr. Suchart Chomklin met with the Chairman of the Bangkok Hawker Community, Ms. Yada Pornpetcharumpa, and members, who delivered a basket for encouragement ad thanks to Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-ocha through the Labour Minister for assisting members of the Bangkok Hawker Community in making food boxes for worker camps in Bangkok. The effort follows the “sharing kindness from shop to workers” project. The occasion took place at the Chatumongkol Room, 6th floor, Ministry of Labour. Assistant to the Labour Minister Mr. Surachai Chaitrakulthong, Advisory Board Member to the Labour Minister Mr. Jumlong Chuayrod, and the Director-General of the Department of Employment Mr. Phairoj Chotikasathian also joined the occasion. The Labour Minister said that under the “sharing kindness from shop to workers” project, the Department of Employment support one meal of food per day. The initiative was carried out from July 12 to 27, 2021, targeting camp workers in 520 locations in Bangkok with 750,000 boxes and 797 locations in Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi, Samut Sakhon, Nakhon Pathom, and Samut Prakan, totaling 500,000 boxes. The project participants are the Bangkok Hawker Community, the Thai Taxi Drivers Association, the Thai Restaurant Association, and shops around the construction camp for 132 places.
Chairman of the Bangkok Hawker Community, Ms. Yada Pornpetcharumpa, herself, and the Bangkok Hawker Community members presented a basket to thank the Prime Minister through the Labour Minister for seeing the importance of the stall hawkers. The stalls joined the “sharing kindness from shop to workers” project by preparing food boxes to deliver to worker camps. The members participated in the project from July 12 to 27 for 16 days, which helped relieve them from suffering. Today, the Chairman of the Bangkok Hawker Community spoke to the club members. He inspired them, saying that once we have had the opportunity to be rescued, we should return the opportunity to society one day. After the project was completed on July 27, the community prepared 5,500 food boxes to distribute to homeless people.
Ms. Sasimon Hui or Auntie Kai, a street hawker in Bangkok, said today, the community thanks to the government, General Prayuth Chan-ocha, and Labour Minister Suchart Chomklin for giving them a chance to have a job and earn for subsistence, to feed their families.
“This measure is a supplementary measure, whereby the Ministry of Labour asks employers for their cooperation to control the spread of COVID-19. In addition to taking care of the camp workers, it helps to lighten the burden and alleviate the suffering of small entrepreneurs, including hawker stalls affected by COVID-19, by providing income to families. Let’s move past this situation together without leaving anyone behind, in alignment with the government’s policy,” concluded Mr. Suchart.
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Division of Public Relations
9 August 2021
