Thailand
Central Thailand restaurant offers free boxed meals to migrants
With some restaurants refusing to serve migrants due to fears that they might carry Covid-19, a restaurant in the Central Thailand province Nakhon Sawan is offering free food to migrant workers.
Many migrants, particularly from Myanmar, have faced discrimination after the outbreak in Samut Sakhon which impacted a large community of migrant workers around the Mahachai area fishing hub.
Owner of Bon Bon Nakhon Sawan restaurant, Apichai Chalanan, says many of the migrants have been turned away by shops and restaurants have refused to serve them.
Apichai says he is offering free boxed meals to migrants who cannot find food or have nothing to eat. He says migrants from any country can come by the restaurant from 5pm to midnight. Apichai says he will continue giving out the free meals until the coronavirus situation has improved.
SOURCE: Bangkok Post
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steen thomsen
Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 5:15 pm
What a good man !!
Frank Leboeuf
Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 5:57 pm
Indeed, happy to hear this. Empathy is the way forward!
Issan John
Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 9:01 pm
Yup, good for him – well done that man.
Ynwaps
Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 5:33 pm
What makes one person an expat, and another a foreign worker or migrant?
Scribble
Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 6:02 pm
Go in asking for a free box and find out
Issan John
Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 8:59 pm
The rules.
barry
Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 9:59 am
I’d posted a reply to your question, with some reading on the subject, but apparently the message is blocked by moderation.
Just Google “migrant expat” for some interesting points of view on the semantics of such loaded words.
Hope this helps
b
preesy chepuce
Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 9:31 pm
Yes… “expat” means rich, white, western European middle class, and “migrant” mneans poorer, duskier, more proletarian folk… If on travelled to Thailand every 6 months to teach diving or English, you’d be a migrant worker…. where’s that takeaway?!
preesy chepuce
Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 9:29 pm
I think ASEAN citizenship is a usual prerequisite, a bit like how Portuguese and Polish can be considered migrant workers in the UK for doing 3,000 mile commute just because they were in the EU.
Strictly-speaking being a migrant worker is not to do with politics and geography, but seasonality.
gosport
Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 6:09 pm
This is Thainess
Toby Andrews
Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 10:03 pm
An admirable charity.
Ian
Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 11:19 pm
I suppose he’s helping some at least so not to be knocked .when I was in pataya in April a local solicitors had set up benches on South rd and was feeding the people what a good woman she was thier must have been 300 in the que that was then
Yo
Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 2:42 am
I wish to donate
James Pate
Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 7:11 am
I tip my imaginary hat to this man. Well done, sir!?