Locals demand foundation for HIV/Aids people relocate
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More than 200 local people yesterday demanded that a foundation move out of their hometown after it began taking in Aids patients.
Locals are accusing the Glory Hut Foundation of failing to follow proper sanitation, which they say is spreading fear in the neighbourhood and adversely affecting local businesses.
The foundation, located in downtown tambon Nong Preu of Chon Buri’s Bang Lamung district, has up to 48 HIV-positive people under its care.
“They don’t have anywhere else to go,” the foundation’s chief Pornsawan Chrispirak said yesterday.
Lang Noen Community’s chairman Wichien Weluwan and the community board’s advisor Boonlert Mekjan have, meanwhile, gathered signatures to back the relocation demand.
Operators of small hotels say they have been losing customers since the foundation began taking in those living with Aids about three months ago.
“They feel unsafe,” one of the operators said.
Pornsawan is set to meet local people today and talk about their demand to have the foundation relocated.
