Bangkok--5 Aug--Thai Airways
Thai Airways International Public Company Limited (THAI) organizes “Transporting Goodwill from Around the World,” a CSR Project Marking THAI’s 50th Anniversary, to hand over 50 wheelchairs to the Association of the Physically Handicapped of Thailand in cooperation with Barrier Free Education Network from Osaka, Japan. The ceremony was presided by Mr. Piyasvasti Amranand, THAI President with Mr. Supacheep Didthad, Chairman of the Association for the Physically Handicapped of Thailand and Mr. Manabu Ueda, President of Barrier Free Education Network.
Mr. Piyasvasti Amranand, THAI President, said THAI received the wheelchairs from Barrier Free Education Network in Osaka, Japan for handing over to Mr. Supacheep Didthad Chairman of the Association for the Physically Handicapped of Thailand to be delivered further to Thailand’s disabled.
With the original wheelchairs well used, the Barrier Free Education Network along with local Japanese volunteers, consisting of housewives and students, helped to fix, clean, restore and repack the wheelchairs to their good operating condition for use by Thailand’s disabled. The re-conditioned wheelchairs, with a total weight of 1,500 kilograms, were then delivered by THAI Cargo from Osaka, Japan free of charge.
“Transporting Goodwill from Around the World,” a CSR Project Marking THAI’s 50th Anniversary is one of the first activities under the THAI CSR initiatives. The wheelchair initiative started when a group of curious THAI cabin crew who, during their duty from Bangkok — Osaka, saw that a number of Japanese passengers, who were not physically challenged, were carrying wheelchairs on board. The crew later learned that the Japanese passengers were bringing in the wheelchairs for donating to Thailand’s disabled each time they traveled to Thailand. This led to the start of a seven-year relationship between the Japanese passengers and THAI cabin crew to support one another in the wheelchair initiative.
THAI is proud to be a part of the world community, not only transporting people and cargo around the world in its day-to-day business, but as a contributor to the betterment of society by supporting humanitarian initiatives like delivering wheelchairs for the physically challenged in Thailand.