RMUTL has played a significant role as a food bank center of goodwill in initiating and participating in events and working with all sectors in society. These activities are organized as a measure to prevent, relieve, and fight against hunger both in time of crisis and peace.
2022 was the year of anxiety, uncertainty, fear, and gradual recuperation from the effects of COVID-19, the period of which countless families and businesses were facing unprecedented falls and dangers. Youths were caught in the state of despair. People around the world were left mentally wounded and financially deprived.
Thailand, apart from being affected directly in the economy from the pandemic, has also faced numerous disastrous floods in various parts of the country. The situation has been made more dire by political unrests and riots in the neighboring Myanmar which resulted in refugees crossing the border into Thailand. The areas in which the refugees come seeking help are in the vicinity of RMUTL campuses, such as Tak, or Chiang Rai, etc. Once in Thailand, the refugees either legally or illegally find jobs to survive. The legally employed refugees in Chiang Mai, in which RMUTL main campus is located, are numbered 147,069, according to the data from the Department of Employment as of December 2022.
As seen from instances above, RMUTL, being one of the organizations under the supervision of the Thai government, needs to act according to the required duties and its specialties. Furthermore, the university can subsequently use this as a way to reach the set goals of SDGs, by which it can involve different offices and departments of the university to perform as an agent of cooperation by sharing knowledge, providing assistances and support through various projects, activities, food funds, vegetable farms, distributions of drinking water, and funds for life. These assets are reachable for all and at the same time are distributed throughout the country from national level down to local community, without discrimination against race, gender, age, region, or ethnicity.
