It may not snow or freeze in Bangkok, but Thailand’s winter months still bring cold temperatures which can be dangerous to elderly residents of the city’s slums.
Panthera Group, one of the country’s leading hospitality, law, and marketing conglomerates, brought 1,500 blankets to Bangkok’s Khlong Toei slum, offering a warm buffer against the January cold.
Hayward kicked the campaigns off with a commitment of 1,000 blankets.
Within only a few days, more pledges came in for 300 blankets with funds donated anonymously for 200 more. They were distributed in Bangkok’s poor Thung Khru District, home to 29 slums.
“A blanket may seem like a small thing, but anything we give is valuable to the residents of the slums,” Shanker said. “When they saw what Panthera Group had done, we saw tears in people’s eyes as they received their blankets.”