6 city candidates back welfare fund
Proposal seeks to help women, poor
Six candidates vying for the Bangkok governorship on Wednesday voiced their support for a proposal to set up a fund for women and impoverished groups, pledging to combine it into their policy platform.
Speaking at a forum on social welfare policy platforms held by the Girl Guides Association of Thailand and the Women and Children Network, the candidates pledged their full support to register such a fund proposal with start-up capital of 100 million baht.
Suchatvee Suwansawat, the Democrat Party’s candidate, said among his top priorities is a plan to provide “equal welfare” in the capital to some 260,000 children aged six and under. He said the government’s subsidy programme for this group can only cover 60,000 children while the families of the…
