Charoen Pokphand Foods PCL (CPF) has set up multiple CSR initiatives to support frontline workers and people who have been financially affected by COVID-19.

Mr. Prasit Boondoungprasert, chief executive officer of CPF, said that the company has made extra efforts to help the country ride out the pandemic crisis. 

At the start of the outbreak, the company had reached out 20,000 Thais returning from overseas to self-quarantine, providing them with healthy food supplies without charge. Later on, it collaborated with Ministry of Public Health to provide meals for 200 public hospitals nationwide and expanded to 20,000 families of nurses and doctors who have been working hard to contain the coronavirus.

“CPF operates our business with Good Corporate Citizen. The company put the interest of the country and its people first.” He said. “We have made multiple efforts to express our genuine appreciation towards people in the frontlines like village health volunteers that the company gave away one million special discount coupons to reduce their household expense.”

The company has implemented food relief programs to provide food security for low-income people, ensuring that they are able to access safe and quality food supplies. As a result, the company delivered meals to 8,499 low-income households of Khlong Toei district. Moreover, it has dispatched a food truck and volunteers to feed people with warm and hearty meals, covering 59 neighborhoods in Bangkok. The food truck project also offered meals for Taxi drivers that have been losing customers since the outbreak began.

Moreover, CPF’s farms and operations across Thailand have supported their communitities, health volunteers and local government agencies with food and medical supplies such as hand sanitizer and face mask.

For overseas businesses, COVID-19 relief activities have been implemented by CPF’s volunteers across the world. For example, CP Russia’s volunteers delivered food supplies to 800 Thais living in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Meanwhile, CP Vietnam delivered its food products, protective masks, and face shield masks to support Royal Thai Consulate-General in Ho Chi Minh City, supporting embassy’s mission to help Thai expats to return to their home country.

Mr. Prasit added that CPF has implemented a series of safety measures at the company’s plants and farms, including contract farms to guarantee COVID-19 free and undisrupted supply chain.