Thaksin, Yingluck fund 2 kitchens in Chiang Mai to feed flood victims
The two former PMs have established kitchens to feed affected residents in their home province; while Thaksin’s kitchen focuses on fresh meals, Yingluck’s also provides basic necessities
Former prime ministers Thaksin and Yingluck Shinawatra have sponsored the opening of two kitchens in Chiang Mai’s Muang district to provide cooked meals to flood victims.
Thaksin has provided funds to set up a kitchen at the Paed Kao Plaza in Nong Hoi subdistrict, where lunch boxes will be prepared for distribution among flood victims. The aim is to ensure that everybody stranded in the floods is fed, especially since most of them cannot venture out to buy food.
Chiang Mai is the home province of both Thaksin and Yingluck, who is still in self-exile.
Yingluck, meanwhile, had a kitchen set up at the Ton Phayom Market on Suthep Road behind Chiang Mai University.
Apart from providing freshly cooked meals, Yingluck’s kitchen also provides victims with bags of basic necessities. There is also a sign outside the facility saying Yingluck wishes this ordeal ends and everybody can return to normalcy soon.
The Shinawatra clan has also dispatched staff to distribute drinking water, dry food and other necessities to flood victims on the outskirts of Chiang Mai’s provincial seat.
