Volunteers help pack bags of relief supplies to send to flood stricken areas
throughout Thailand.
Patcharapol Panrak
Royal Thai Navy personnel and volunteers packed hundreds
of bags of emergency rations that will be distributed by the Royal Princess
Pa Foundation for flood victims in the northeast and south.
The bags were packed at a hangar at U-Tapao Pattaya
International Airport Nov. 10 by a delegation led by Princess Pa Foundation
President Somthawin Yangyoo. She said HRH Princess Soamsawalee, who created
the foundation after major floods in 1995, had asked the Royal Navy to
continue its recent work to aid flooding victims.
Navy personnel from the Air and Coastal Defense Command
training center, Sattahip-area officers and volunteers from the Thai Red
Cross and Army Wives Association helped packed the supply bags.
The Princess Pa Foundation was begun to help close the
gap between victims’ needs and support from existing charity organizations.
With heavy rain and flash flooding expected in Thailand north throughout
last month, the princess didn’t want to wait until she returned to Thailand
to prepare the relief supplies, Somthawin said.
