Rohingya News Agency - (Bangkok Post): A huge procession of Thai people turned out to deliver food, cash and necessities to help Rohingya ‎migrants confined in various shelters yesterday.‎
In Narathiwat's Yi-ngo district, Nasaran Salae-ma, headmaster of Akrasatwitthaya School, imam ‎representatives as well as Muslim and Buddhist people gave food, clothes and cash to Muhammad ‎Sakee, chief of the Narathiwat Home for Children and Families, to help 18 Rohingya youths who were ‎brought there.‎

Shelter staff said health officials in Narathiwat will be contacted to conduct medical check-ups for the ‎Rohingya.‎

The staff members were concerned about their mental condition as many of them were traumatised ‎from horrendous memories of their hometowns in Myanmar's Rakhine state.‎

Muhammad Sabare, a 14-year-old Rohingya boy, led his group to pray for the donors' prosperity in ‎return.‎

Through translators, Muhammad pleaded with Thai authorities to help the Rohingya as he and his ‎family were separated for more than two months. He also thanked Thai people who provided them ‎with help. Close to 1,000 Rohingya have been detained in Thailand.‎

At the Trang Shelter for Children and Families, Trang Hospital officers yesterday performed medical ‎check-ups for 12 Rohingya children and one adult there.‎

Most of them were found to be malnourished and some had sustained injuries during their long ‎journey.‎

In Yala, Thai Buddhists and Muslims delivered food, money, clothes and other necessities to the office ‎of Young Muslim Association of Thailand (YMAT) in the province's municipality.‎

The association is scheduled to provide all the donated goods to Rohingya migrants in Songkhla's ‎Sadao district today.‎

Abdul Aziz Tadaein, head of the human rights section of the YMAT, said the association had ‎previously helped the Rohingya.‎

The group also delivered money for Rohingya people in Myanmar, he said, adding that the ‎association's representatives will travel to Myanmar next month to give more help.‎

Mr Abdul urged Thai authorities not to send the Rohingya migrants back to Myanmar.‎

He said it would be better to set up a temporary shelter for them during the time they are seeking ‎asylum in the third countries.‎

At the Pattani Shelter for Children and Families, streams of people have donated food for 22 ‎Rohingya migrants at the facility.‎

Thakorn Hemvichien, chief of the shelter, told donors it was better to give cash instead of food as the ‎centre already provides food which properly suits Rohingya people's needs.‎

Meanwhile, Bang Klam police station in Songkhla has supported the 21 confined Rohingya migrants ‎with activities along with villagers.‎

The move was agreed by a joint panel of Bang Klam police and villagers, Pol Col Suriya Panyamang, ‎the station chief, said. They all agreed that Rohingya migrants were not wrongdoers, but victims, so ‎they should be allowed to live outside of the cells under supervision, Pol Col Suriya said.‎

Rohingya will help renovate a deserted section of police accommodation together with the villagers so ‎they can live there, Pol Col Suriya said, adding the Rohingya love the activities.‎

Another 40 Rohingya will be transferred from other police stations to Bang Klam as there is still plenty ‎of accommodation for them here, he said.‎