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Azerai donates gifts to poor workers and masks to medical facilities
Located on the poetic Perfume River, Azerai La Residence Hue has provided timely support to poor workers and cyclo drivers in Hue because they have no income due to the lack of tourists in the city. The hotel also provided rice, cooking oil, and instant noodles to more than 100 people in difficulty, donated 2,500 masks, 1,300 bottles of drinking water, 70 liters of milk, and 600 cans of various soft drinks to quarantine areas in the province.
Meanwhile, Azerai Can Tho Hotel also joined hands by donating 4,000 N95 masks, 2,500 organic soaps, and 128 liters of hand sanitizer to local hospitals and clinics.
The Anam's yoga instructor teaches yoga to orphans
The Anam resort's yoga instructor, Umesh Sharma, decided to open a free yoga class every Sunday morning for 20 orphans at Thanh Son Pagoda in Cam Lam district, located right next to the resort. During a visit to the pagoda, Umesh met children in unfortunate circumstances (about 70 orphans or abandoned children) being cared for by the pagoda, and he thought he had to do something to help change their lives. He thought yoga could help them feel the breath of colorful life and also improve their health, especially during the complicated period of the Covid-19 epidemic.
Recently, The Anam staff donated yoga mats to the children to help them practice more effectively.
Tanah Gajah in Bali provides food for employees
The staff of Tanah Gajah Resort, a Hadiprana resort in Bali, has always focused on organic food grown on the resort grounds to serve guests through the “farm to table” program. But during this Covid-19 pandemic, they have changed that program to “farm to staff table”. They also grow short-term vegetables such as chives, onions, garlic, chili, radish, spinach, etc. to help the resort staff who are having a hard time.
The resort has also increased tilapia farming in the resort’s ponds in a sustainable way to provide fish for its 126 employees. Most of the employees here are from the surrounding villages, so this activity of Tanah Gajah is really beneficial to the local community.
Meliá Koh Samui staff donate money to buy gifts for the community
The staff of the new Meliá Koh Samui resort, Thailand's second largest island, are fortunate to still be working and receiving 100% of their salary during the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, they have united to share with the community by donating money and giving 115 gifts of necessities such as rice, noodles, cooking oil, milk, canned food, etc. to local families in need.
Banyan Tree Samui staff donate blood voluntarily
Remko Kroesen, General Manager of Banyan Tree Samui Resort in Thailand, kicked off a voluntary blood donation campaign by opening a “mobile blood donation clinic” at his five-star resort. All employees lined up to donate blood, and a total of 8,400 cc of blood was donated and provided to medical facilities in Koh Samui and neighboring islands.
“We are always willing to help the local community in any way we can. We hope that the blood we donate will be useful and save someone’s life, I am very proud of my staff,” said Mr. Kroesen.
