After signing as a guarantor for a lifelong friend’s tractor purchase who defaulted, a man and his family in Ubon Ratchathani try to sell their eyes and kidneys to avoid wasting his residence and farm. The man, alongside with his wife and 2 sons, is currently strolling a hundred kilometres within the rain from their residence to the provincial capital where PM Prayut Chan-o-cha will go to tomorrow to plead for aid.
The household had placed 2 vinyl signs in entrance of their house advertising their eyes and kidneys, or any other organs, for sale from all four relations if it would raise the 860,725 baht needed to save their house and their 9 rai of farmland.
After that failed to attract patrons, they took the indicators and started walking in the rain to the provincial capital. They have been greeted on their walk by residents alongside the highway who learned of their story and came out to offer support.
The heartwrenching story began in 2014 when the 48 yr outdated man, who works as a radio DJ and in native authorities for Jead tambon administration organisation in Khemarat district, agreed to co-sign on a tractor buy for 860,000 baht for his friend’s spouse. His good friend is an area policeman at Na Tan Police Station whom he had identified since childhood, with a steady job, so he agreed to sign.
But soon after, payments have been missed, and by 2016, the household had been served a warrant as a second defendant in a default case. His pal promised it was beneath control and being mediated, but when the court docket ordered the tractor returned together with depreciation charges, the spouse didn’t return it.
Last year, the Legal Execution Department notified the household that their land and residential had been being seized and auctions, nevertheless it failed to draw a buyer at 2 auctions, although it’s up for auction again on October 16.
Minutes and out of ideas, the panicked family devised the plan to raise money to pay the 860,000 debt and save their home and farm by promoting their organs. Now they are walking the a hundred kilometres with their signal to boost awareness and hope for a meeting with PM Prayut to ask immediately for help..