Bangkok--Mar 8--SET
The SET Chairman, Mr. Vijit Supinit, who represented the FeTCO (Federation of Thai Capital Market Organizations), took about 150 persons to Baan Namkem (or Namkem Village) in Phang-Nga Province on March 5, 2005. The visitors were top-level executives from listed companies, securities companies, investment management companies, the SET and its subsidiaries, together with the press who were all participating in “Top Executives’ Networking Forum 2005”. The group delivered relief supplies worth THB5 mln. to tsunami victims on behalf of FeTCO.
FeTCO also donated THB4 mln. in cash for acquiring furniture for the recipients’ new residences, plus daily supplies and t-shirts worth about THB1 mln. Gen. Lertrat Rattavanich, Assistant Commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army (RTA), who is Acting Head of the Public Relief Center of the RTA, received the donated supplies together with the Baan Namkem residents.
The visiting group also went on to a site visit at the “Homes of Harmony for the Casualties” project, where 228 permanent residences for the tsunami victims, in which FeTCO donated THB30 mln., are being built. The project is 60% completed and is expected to be finished by the end of March. Electricity and water systems will be installed in April.
The permanent residence project is on an 18 rai (about 7.3 acres) plot of land belonging to the Treasury Department. The construction costs for each house range between THB150,000 — THB170,000. People who are eligible to stay in the project are the homeless affected by the tsunami or the poor.
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