Banks employ more disabled people
The Thai Bankers' Association says its members have employed 902 people with disabilities as part of efforts to improve their quality of life.
Kobsak Duangdee, secretary-general of The Thai Bankers' Association, said that all of its 14 members of are continuing to work under the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities initiative through a collaboration with the CSR Club and Microsoft (Thailand) “to enhance performance of handicapped workers in 76 provincial Red Cross chapters and 240 Red Cross district branches across Thailand”
The joint effort includes the donation of 550 computers and essential operation and productivity software worth Bt27 million to the Thai Red Cross Society.
In the first year of this project, the Thai Red Cross managed to fill 668 job openings with handicapped workers, who have proven to be highly capable yet held back by lack of appropriate equipment – especially computers, Kobsak said.
