The National Village and Urban Community Fund Office will start 200 pilot projects nationwide to help tackle informal debts.
Secretary-general Natee Klibthong said the project, which will collaborate with the Finance Ministry, the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives and the Government Savings Bank, will start transferring informal debts to the fund — commonly known as the Village Fund — this month.
The scheme will see the government organise job training programmes for low-income earners to give them greater opportunities to increase their income over the long term.
Products made by informal debtors under the programme can be sold at 20,000 community shops and 2,000 Pracha Rat shops nationwi…
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