SCB launches cleaning project

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SCB launches cleaning project

Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), in cooperation with the Department of Social Development and Welfare, aims to create jobs for unemployed people by enlisting their services to help clean flood-affected communities and housing projects under the "Hand in Hand for Home Recovery" project.



SCB executive vice president and head of the mortgage business division Pikun Srimahunt said the bank has teamed up with more than 1,000 SCB staff to join some 2,000 cleaners from the flood-evacuation centres in cleaning main roads in some 500 housing estates.

The project aims to create jobs for jobless people staying in flood evacuation centres in Bangkok and its suburbs by employing them to clean flood-hit communities and housing estates. SCB is responsible for providing the cleaning equipment, wages and lunch for the participating cleaners, with a budget of Bt70 million.

Business disruption has led to unemployment and loss of income for many flood-affected people. SCB wants to help these people by not only creating employment for them but also by helping them recover their homes.

The project involves an integrated recovery process with teams of experts to provide advice to flood-hit people. This includes advice on flood-insurance claims by Siam Commercial Samaggi Insurance, which offers flood-insurance coverage, and cooperation by the bank's business partners to offer products and services related to home-cleaning and recovery, such as cleaning supplies, furniture, and moving services at flood-hit housing estates.

SCB has already provided some assistance to flood-hit people in provincial areas such as Nakhon Sawan and Ayutthaya provinces and would further provide relief for those affected by the deluge in Bangkok and neighbouring provinces, including Nonthaburi and Pathum Thani, based on the decrease in water levels in each area. The effort has started in some communities, and the project is expected to take two months to complete.

The Nation December 18, 2011