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Sailors at the Air and Coastal Defense
Command load up supplies to take to flood victims in the north.
Patcharapol Panrak
Royal Thai Navy personnel and volunteers packed 70 bags of emergency
rations that will be distributed by the Royal Princess Pa Foundation for
monks and flood victims in Thailand’s north.
The bags were packed at a hangar at U-Tapao Pattaya International
Airport Aug. 30 by a delegation led by Princess Pa Foundation President
Somthawin Yangyoo. She said HRH Princess Soamsawalee, who created the
foundation after major floods in 1995, had asked the Royal Navy to
continue its recent work to aid flooding victims.
Navy personnel from the Air and Coastal Defense Command training center,
Sattahip-area officers and volunteers from the Thai Red Cross and Army
Wives Association helped packed the supply bags.
The Princess Pa Foundation was begun to help close the gap between
victims’ needs and support from existing charity organizations. With
heavy rain and flash flooding expected in Thailand north through
October, the princess didn’t want to wait until she returned to Thailand
to prepare the relief supplies, Somthawin said.
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