Issarachon foundation has made a survey on take care of homeless people in Bangkok from 4 PM – 9 PM which have Klong-Lord, Royal Plaza, and Ratchadamnoen road are the area concerned. On the other hand we also provide the basic needs for them that include food, medicine, clothes, and shelter, even the primary need that urgent:
-Send them back home; we will send the homeless people back home but we have to talk with them and their family first before decide to send them back, and make sure that they are willing to go back and not come out to live like this again. We also contact the organization in area of their hometown to help them find a job and deal with the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security to help them on access of the benefits and welfare from government that they must get.
-Medical care; we also carries mosquito repellent, paracetamol, painkiller to help some people that has a few sick, but for whom that has a hard one we will give them first aid before send them to the hospital.
-Feeding; we have a sub project on give a meal to homeless people every day which it cost only 25 baht per person. Furthermore in every month we will have a big meal for them and it has
participants around 300-500 person but this depends on the budget we have in each month. And evening that we go in area concerned, we will feed for whom that didn’t have a meal for many days, at least 10 people per day.
-Sharing; every day that we go in area concerned, the volunteers who join us can have a talk with the homeless people, both can share the point of view so they can understand each other.
-Give them a job; we will focus and help them on improving the skills that can be develop to use to get a job. On this point, the organization or agency that have a responsible for this issue will come to help us to make sure that the homeless people get a job which fix with their skills
-Give identity card; the identity card is the most concern that we have to do it in an urgent because most of them don’t have it. When something happened, we can’t do anything much because we don’t have the evidence to show who is he/she.
-Preliminary welfare; we will give them the preliminary welfare in each area that we mentioned above before we go into another processes.