Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CP Foods) has teamed up with True Corporation to provide food, water, and Sim cards to aid Thailand disaster relief teams assisting in quake-hit Turkey.
Prasit Boondoungprasert, CEO of CP Foods, presented some 1,500 packs of ready-to-eat food, 5,000 bottles of drinking water and 50 Sim cards on Thursday to Boontham Lertsukekasem, director-general of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, to support Thai urban search and rescue (USAR) operations.
The USAR team — under the mission “Thailand for Turkey” — left Bangkok for Turkey on the same day. The search and rescue operations in the southern Turkish province of Hatay are now being assisted by CP Türkiye, the local business arm of CP Foods. Six CP Türkiye volunteers — two Thais and four Turkish citizens — have been assisting with translation and communications during their search efforts in the province following the 7.8-magnitude quake that hit the region on Feb 6.
The company said it hopes that this assistance will support Thai rescuers to help survivors.
CP Türkiye had earlier delivered survival bags to those in need while also setting up a kitchen at a company canteen to prepare and serve ready-to-eat meals to affected people as well as search and rescue crews.
The company has dispatched a food truck loaded with chicken meat, fresh eggs, and drinking water to those in need in the affected area.
The quake had killed at least 31,643 people in Turkey and more than 4,500 in Syria as of yesterday.