Covid drives rise in city homeless
Crisis forces many on to streets
More people have ended up on the streets in Bangkok after businesses that employed them became stricken by the pandemic or took advantage of them for too long.
Safer than a swim: A young man takes a dip in Klong Lod along Atsadang Road after the canal’s water quality improved and the surrounding areas were spruced up.
‘A’, a 35-year-old native of Sakon Nakhon, used to work as waiter in an eatery in Bangkok. The business went bust after lockdowns and pandemic restrictions drove away customers.
For a while, he eagerly waited for his employer to call him on his mobile phone as he pinned his hope on the eatery getting back in business and he returning to work.
But he never received the call. Worse, his obsolete model of a phone was going dead. So,…
