Free meals to the jobless

[reader]

From Bangkok Post

Pattaya pub becomes community kitchen

PATTAYA: The coronavirus pandemic has turned a pub in this resort city into a community kitchen serving free food for workers who have lost jobs when the global tourism industry ground to a halt.

Surajai Attanart, owner of the Differ Night Pub, and his workers feed up to 1,000 residents who have fallen on hard times due to the pandemic that has infected 530,000 worldwide, killed more than 24,000 and prompted many countries including Thailand to close their borders.

Thailand’s measures to suppress the spread of the disease have left many without jobs as many businesses, mainly in entertainment and spas, were closed down. Like many others, Surajai’s business is hurting, but he wanted to contribute to the community.

“On our part, we’re giving out free food to people who have borne the brunt of the situation. At least, (this way), they can save around 40 to 50 baht for a meal per day, adding a lifeline for them,” Surajai, 43, told Reuters.

About a thousand lunch boxes are packed daily in the pub’s kitchen, where dozens of the remaining workers gather to prepare ready-to-eat meals.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1887855/pattaya-pub-becomes-community-kitchen

 

 

[jason1975]

Bravo!

[Vessey]

Several Bars in the Jomtien Complex are taking it in turn to offer free food to the boys from there who are left in Pattaya and have no money.

G-Star was or is doing the same.

[Vessey]

@Home Bar, Jomtien Complex today

(Pictures from their FaceBook)

[Vessey]

Boss Det  at @Home Bar has just posted that they distributed over 200 meals in about 30 minutes!

I understand that along the JC ex-Pats have been donating generously to allow other bars to participate on allocated days.

[reader]

From The Nation

The long wait for handouts

Some 1,000 locals in Chonburi province were queuing up from as early as 1am on Thursday (May 28) at Soi Thappaya 5 in Banglamung district to receive handouts of food and consumer products provided by the Norwegian Seamen's Church Pattaya.

The church distributes 2,000 packs of the handouts at 9am every Thursday to people who have been affected by the Covid-19 situation in Pattaya, the famous tourist city that has been shut down to avoid the outbreak.

At around 3am, police officers from Muang Pattaya Station came to disperse the crowd as 11pm to 4am are curfew hours imposed by the government. However, a news source said that the crowd dispersed only temporarily and queued up again once the police had gone.