Coca-Cola-led project lifts Thai women’s skills in finance, agriculture

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Coca-Cola-led project lifts Thai women’s skills in finance, agriculture

THE NATION

 

Caption: (From left to right) Pornwut Sarasin, Chairman, ThaiNamthip Limited, Sruangkanok Sirisom, female sugarcane grower from Phetchabun who has join the project; Somsak Jantararoungtong, Secretary-General of Office of the Cane and Sugar Board, Ministry

 

RUNGWARA Mongkolchareon, 25, from Phetchabun’s Wichian Buri district decided to follow in her parents’ footsteps and farm sugarcane after college graduation to give her family a brighter future.

 

Over the past four years, she has learned much about the difficulties of finance and gaining a steady income. Her training resulted from a course called "Sustainable business with Coca-Cola: Female sugarcane growers empowerment" in 2014.

 

Full story: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Coca-Cola-led-project-lifts-Thai-womens-skills-in--30296319.html

 

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2016-10-02

[eliotness]

Yep, that's about right, Coke Cola helping sugar growers.  Next McDonald's will be helping palm oil growers.  Heaven help us all !

[phantomfiddler]

Coca-cola, are you s******g me ? I am not medically qualified, but I would hazard a guess that Coca-cola has killed more people than any disease on the planet ! and all for the sake of making money, very sad

Edited October 2, 2016 by phantomfiddler

[Beats56]

Something like 12 teaspoons of sugar in every bottle. I won't go near the stuff and admonished my children the same.