EXIM, SUMITOMO BANKS DONATE TO WORTHY CAUSE

       The Export-Import Bank of Thailand(Exim Bank) and the local branch of Japan's Sumjitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)recently donated Bt772,100 to the Wat Mahawong Community Daycare Centre under the Foundation for Rehabilitation and Eevelopment of Children and Family (Fordec).
       The money will be used for the construction of a metal roof covering the centre's multi-purpose area in Samut Prakan's Phra Pradaeng district. It will also support the foundation's milk fund and education programmes for poor children.
       Exim Bank president Apichai Boontherawara said the move marded a new level in cooperation between his bank and SMBC.
       "The SMBC participation added value to Exim Bank's own corporate-social-responsibility activities. We've been supportive of Fordec programmes for more than 10 years," he said.
       With Exim Bank's donation of Bt332,500 and SMBC's Bt389,600, the combined donation wil go far to help children and workers at the centre and provide them with safer surroundings.
       The donations will be used to help poor and homeless children under the centre, as well as provide food allowances and a budget for educational materials.

       APICHAI BOONTHERAWARA, left,president of the Export-Import Bank of Thailand, and Seiji Sato, right, general manager of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking, celebrate after presenting 'Under the Same Sky' donations to Amporn Wathanavongs, executive director of the Foundation for Rehabilitation and Development of Children and Family.