Bangkok:- Twenty years ago, Suwanchat Promchart picked up a handicapped passenger and noticed that her eyes were brimming with tears. He asked her what went wrong. Her reply prompted him to commit himself to serve handicapped passengers free of charge.

Suwanchat, who is now 38 years old, has been keeping his promise for some 20 years now.

He recounted that the reply from his first handicapped passenger moved him. She bitterly complained that she called several taxis but all refused her after they saw that she is a handicapped person.

Suwanchat has been widely pressed by the media and online social networkers for his community service mind and deeds.

Nation TV, Channel 3, Modern Nine TV and several newspapers as well as the Pantip.com talked about his deeds.

Suwanchat’s taxi is printed with a message saying: “Willing to serve 24 hours a day. Call me, don’t hesitate. Partially or totally paralyzed passengers and the blind served free of charge. If you call me, you’ll give me a chance to make merit.”

Suwanchat told Channel 3 that he always carried paralyzed passengers or those who could not walk. The more he did it the more he felt happier.

Suwanchat said he felt that the more he served the society this way, the more he got something back. He said he intended to serve the handicapped passengers free of charge but many of them gave him money, hoping that he could go on doing what he has been doing. He now owns his taxi.

But he has never collected fair from Buddhist nuns and monks, he added.

His phone number is Tel: 087-331-5421.

Something rare - an actual Good man in Thailand.

...that time of the month already?

Seems there are some good Buddhists here after all.......

Must have gotten a lot of blind passengers by writing that on the side of his taxi.

"No act of kindness no matter how small is ever wasted." - Aesop

Good on ya Suwanchat !!

Assuming it is all factual I say....Well done mate.

'... he has never collected fair from Buddhist nuns and monks ...' It might be 'meritorious' were they to pay him the fare. But can the DLT now hold him up - in particular to the idiot head honcho of the Taxi Drivers Association (or whatever) - as the paradigm example of how good a taxi driver can be, and an indication of what the public does reasonably expect from taxi drivers.

Well I take my hat off to him... Well done your a good example to other taxi drivers.

Well done to the taxi driver, shame on the Monks and 'nuns' (never seen a nun in Thailand) the Monks don't pay for public transport anyway, but why do they use taxies, when they are supposed to walk everywhere?

A real example to us all!

Something rare - an actual Good man in Thailand.

Just1Voice

Posted Yesterday, 10:51

Something rare - an actual Good man in Thailand.

What guys are you doing in Thailand?