PPAO President Rewat Areerob is present for the delivery of rice, water and other necessities to a home with young children in a poor community in Phuket Town just yesterday (Sept 18). Photo: PPAO

 

By The Phuket News

 

PHUKET: Over the past year and still ongoing are many efforts by local people to help those in need. Many of those efforts have gone overlooked. They must be appreciated, and while the nation’s focus is on reopening tourism, those efforts are still much needed to help those suffering in the continuing economic crisis.

 

The national government’s efforts to help local people have been sporadic, with months in between campaigns, such is the nature of bureaucracies and the maintained focus on seeming to do good. The Phuket Provincial Administration Organisation (PPAO, or OrBorJor) has done much since Rewat Areerob took the reins after the election late last year, and local municipalities also continue to do what they can.

 

However, in Phuket it has been local people, local business and local municipalities that have done the most to help those unable to help themselves. Keep in mind that the donations provided by the local people and local businesses have come from those who themselves also are suffering under the crushing COVID policies.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-opinion-to-those-who-care-81448.php

 

-- © Copyright Phuket News 2021-09-20

 

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Why doesn't HE help. My wife asked me this retorically only yesterday. "Like father like son", hhmmm. Even the blankets seem to have vanished.