Govt caravan to go around capital offering help
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A governmentcommissioned 800vehicle caravan started travelling around Bangkok yesterday to provide assistance and relief supplies to people in the 23 districts that are inundated.
While launching the project at Royal Plaza, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said a large kitchen would be built in each of Bangkok’s 50 districts to cook fresh food for flood evacuees and that 23 provinces had started sending daily supplies to the inundated districts in Bangkok.
The caravan consists of ambulances, mobile toilet units, water purifiers and smallsized garbage trucks.
Bangkok Bank headquarters on Silom Road is hosting a fair today from 8am to 5pm during which commodities will be sold at cheap prices and free counselling on repair work will be provided. Similar events will be held in other Bangkok Bank branches in the provinces.
Meanwhile, a 40vehicle caravan in Songkhla set off yesterday to collect donations of cash and relief supplies, while a collection centre was set up in front of the Central Hat Yai mall. All donations will later be handed over to the Army.
A team of 114 policemen from eight provinces in the North has arrived in Bangkok along with 22 truckloads of food and relief supplies, five motor boats and Bt850,000 in cash, police commander MajGeneral Suthep Dejraksa said.
