CP Group and CP Foods provide essential supplies for Khlong Toei residents amid COVID-19 crisis

CP Group and CP Foods provide essential supplies for Khlong Toei residents amid COVID-19 crisis

Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CP Foods), has joined forces with Charoen Pokphand Group, True Corporation Public Company Limited, CP All Public Company Limited, Siam Makro Public Company Limited, Buddharaksa Foundation,

the Dhanin – Tawee Chearavanont Foundation and Chef Care Foundation to supply people in the Khlong Toei communities with hearty foods, essential goods and SIM cards. The COVID-19 relief, so called “CP Hearts as One Fights COVID-19” project, aims to alleviate the burden of COVID-19 outbreak among vulnerable groups in the area. 

Founder of Duang Prateep Foundation (DPF), Prateep Ungsongtham Hata, said she would like to thank the joint effort for providing food safety, communication supports, and other necessities for more than one hundred people under home quarantine in Khlong Toei, to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in communities. She added that getting food and other essential supplies is an important part for helping everyone in the communities to stay safe amid the pandemic.

CP Foods' CEO Prasit Boondoungprasert said the COVID-19 relief project is in line with the policy of Dhanin Chearavanont, senior chairman of CP Group, who wants all CP companies to work together to support society amid the COVID-19 crisis. 

Part of CP Foods provided foods and drinking water under “CPF Food from the Heart against COVID-19” program.  The project has been in operation since the first outbreak in 2020. The company is hoping that the food supplies from CP Foods will help people of Khlong Toei’s communities to be safe and healthy.

Over 14,000 items of CP Foods’ products were given to the Duang Prateep Foundation, including ready meals, fresh eggs, herbal eggs, curry meal packs, drinking water and others. 

Suphakit Vuntanadit, Group Chief Commercial Officer of True Corporation, said that the group realises that communication technology is crucial in a crisis. Therefore, the company has upgraded digital telecommunication infrastructure within the Khlong Toei community as well as giving out: 200 SIM cards with unlimited internet packages at 10 Mbps for 30 days; access to True HEALTH application, a health consultation service without cost, and; "TrueVisions NOW" offering 24 popular channels from TrueVisions via smartphones using the TrueID application. 

CP All donated alcohol gel and facemasks to help people in the area maintain hygiene and gave out drinking water and bakery items. Meanwhile Siam Makro donated 6,500 red trash bags, specially made for medical or biohazardous waste, to the Foundation.

Buddharaksa Foundation, the Dhanin – Tawee Chearavanont Foundation donated 1 million baht-worth of foods and necessities to Duang Prateep Foundation to alleviate conditions for people in need during the COVID-19 crisis. The donation was made by Narong Chearavanont.

Chef Cares Foundation donated four exclusive menus from world-class chefs to the communities,  including Pork in Creamy Sauce with Macaroni, Spaghetti in Green Curry Sauce with Chicken, Fish Jungle Curry Rice and Chicken Tikka Masala with Turmeric Rice.


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