Officials load up some of
Pattaya’s vagrants to ship them off to the Ban Tabkwang shelter in
Saraburi.
Warunya Thongrod
Social welfare officials rounded up 27 homeless
people on Pattaya’s streets, taking them to area shelters.
Officials from the Pattaya Peace and Stability
Maintenance Department and Chonburi Office of Social Development and
Human Security collected the 11 men, 12 women and four children from
area beaches from Jomtien to Naklua and in public parks around the area
April 4.
They were sent to Ban Tabkwang in Saraburi and the
Child Protection and Development Center in Chonburi.
Deputy Mayor Wutisak Rermkitkarn said the homeless
people damaged the image of the city. They were sent to shelters for
vocational training so they can again become self-dependent, he said.
Welfare agent Sharin Puangsakulsuk said intervention
was needed because the homeless were creating a nuisance by engaging in
begging and petty theft.
