50 by 50: Nourishing

People and Planet To drive our progress toward nourishing people and planet, we’ve set an ambitious goal to achieve 50 million impacts by our 50th anniversary in 2030.

Herbalife Nutrition Foundation (HNF) is dedicated to improving lives of children and communities around the world. In Malaysia, we work with our Casa Herbalife Nutrition partners – Amitabha Charity Orphanage, Good Samaritan Home, Pusat Jagaan Kanak-Kanak Yatim/Miskin Rukaiyah, and Hope Mission Welfare Society – to provide them with grants so that they can provide good nutrition to the children under their care.

Nutrition for Zero Hunger (NFZH) is Herbalife Nutrition’s global initiative to support UN Sustainable Development Goals for Zero Hunger. Through NFZH, we have held the NFZH STAR Program with our Casa Herbalife Nutrition partners to educate children in cultivating healthy eating and active lifestyle habits.

To play our part in battling the COVID-19 crisis, Herbalife Nutrition has also donated medical equipment to Hospital Ampang and Hospital Bukit Mertajam. HNF fund was also utilised for Yayasan Chow Kit COVID-19 Project and Food Aid programme and supported Uncle Kentang towards relief efforts.

Believing in helping people harness the power of nutrition to help them live healthier lives, we run a variety of nutrition education programs with various stakeholders, such as partnering with Nutrition Society of Malaysia (NSM), holding sports nutrition webinars with Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) students, and hosting regular exercise challenges with our Independent Members.

We have taken steps and conducted projects that positively impact the environment. Herbalife Nutrition’s Go Green Initiative, which was launched in 2020, saw us putting a stop to single-use plastic bags. With the Zero Plastic Bags initiative, more than 4,600kg of plastic bags were stopped from production in Malaysia from September to December 2020. In 2021, we stopped issuing paper-based income tax statements for our members and instead issued the electronic version, which approximately saved the usage of 10,949pcs of printed A4 paper.

In 2022, Herbalife Nutrition partnered with Recycle for Life (RFL), as part of our Simply Recycle initiative in APAC, which encourages members to recycle their Herbalife Nutrition canisters. The cash rewards for the recyclables collected is then donated to HNF, enabling us to reach out to more children in need in Malaysia.

In 2015, The Hershey Company signed the White House climate change pledge among the other thirteen largest companies to commit & respond to the climate change threat by reducing the GHG emission. Many initiatives have been implemented since then. One of them is by activating the Green Team committee where a group of people to educate, engage & activate the sustainability mission “Protect our environment by continuously improving the efficiency and sustainability of our business activities and products towards bringing joy & affordable snacks to everyone”

Hershey Malaysia has been practicing merging the CSR activities & sustainability program since after the government declared the endemic phase in May 2022. Hershey Malaysia’s Green Team and CSR Committee have been doing great work throughout the year giving back, educating, and encouraging the community to make more sustainable choices.

During the Good to Give Back Month season in July, the team went to the Taman Daya School to educate the students about the importance of sustainability by providing them with a 110 set of Hershey stainless steel drinking bottles as a substitute for plastic bottles and explaining why it’s better for their health and the environment. To add more sweet moments to the event, Hershey surprised the students by setting up the RMT station where they collected their subsidized food during recess time, and they love it!

This was not the first visit the team has made to the school. In conjunction with Earth Day 2022 celebration last May, the team went to the school for an exciting activity where they created a Hershey Garden from scratch -with the help of the schoolteachers- and as always, took the opportunity to brief the students on the importance of sustainability. These activities engaged & benefited 100 students, 15 school representatives & 33 Hershey’s family members.

– A three-pronged integrated approach – stakeholder engagement, social risk and impact management, and community benefits.

At Hess, social responsibility (SR) means maintaining the highest standards of corporate citizenship as we work to deliver the energy the world needs – energy that is fundamental to advancing economic progress and improving living standards. SR, which is one of the six Hess Values, is foundational to the culture of our company and to our engagement with the communities where we operate; it includes protecting the health and safety of our workforce, safeguarding the environment and creating a long-lasting positive impact on our communities.

Education

• Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) program

Our social investment programs help improve education, which is fundamental to sustainable economic growth. Education is the primary focus of our CSR initiatives in Malaysia, and our ongoing commitment to supporting quality education is evident through our financial support for educational programs such as the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) program. Hess has partnered with the U.S. Embassy in Malaysia to support the ETA program in Kelantan since 2018, bringing ETAs to teach English in public secondary schools.

Disaster Relief

On the East Coast of Malaysia where our operations are located, flooding during the monsoon season is an annual occurrence. These floods often have severe negative impacts on the local economy and community, causing shortages of food and clean water and damaging homes and other structures. Hess has committed to providing relief to flood-affected areas. We work with local nonprofit organizations annually, exchanging updates on the hardest-hit areas and the types of assistance needed.

Health and Community

In our effort to create positive and mutually beneficial relationships with our host communities, Hess also actively participates in various health and community programs organized by PETRONAS and local Oil & Gas bodies to enhance our company’s reputation and leverage volunteering opportunities among our employees, such as the Thai Oilman Charity Golf and MyKasih Golf. Programs such as these support the effort of giving back to society whereby the proceeds raised are donated to selected non-profit organizations.

– Drive digital inclusion to transform lives and communities. Lead the development of holistic solutions that break down the digital divide that prevents many from accessing the education, jobs, and healthcare needed to thrive.

At HP, we are committed to enabling every person to unlock his or her potential and develop the talent and skills necessary for a better, brighter future. HP strives to build innovative, accessible, and personalized technology and solutions to promote digital inclusion and lifelong learning.

In Malaysia, HP is proud to be able to help shape future generations and be a technology enabler for students and teachers nationwide. Through our partnership with Junior Achievement Malaysia (JA), we have organized many programmes that have uplifted thousands of underprivileged students, equipping these next-generation talents with the right skills, technological know-how and experiences to thrive in their future careers.

These initiatives include:

• JA Job Shadow which prepare students for the working world through experiential lessons
• Learning Initiatives for Entrepreneurs that trains students who aspire to become entrepreneurs or start their own businesses
• Classroom to Career, a virtual engagement that guides students on necessary skills to succeed at the workplace including financial literacy, building your personal and other soft skills
• Coach to Teach, a masterclass to introduce teachers to the HP Life portal and guide them in integrating technology into their syllabus to deliver engaging content to students
• Mobile TechHub, where HP sponsored 40 laptops for JA Malaysia to be used in a temporary tech lab at schools on rotation for students to access JA programs
• Be Entrepreneurial Program, prepares students to become social entrepreneurs focussing on UN Sustainable Development Goals
• HP LIFE portal overview, https://www.life-global.org/ gives people free access all over the world the opportunity to build skills for the future – whether they want to start or grow their own business, enter the workforce or secure  a  better  job

• TITAN, an online real time gamified entrepreneurship program providing students with experiential learning and decision making to successfully run a business

To date, more than 550 HP employees and senior leaders have committed over 5,000 volunteering hours to work with nearly 30,000 beneficiaries across Malaysia.

On 2 December, part of the AMCHAM team met with a number of members in Penang. These visits provided an opportunity for us to learn more about our members in the Northern Region and discuss how we may collaborate in the near future.

The first visit of the day was to Bruker Malaysia. Here the team met with Rajan Subramaniam, Senior Director, Teoh Eng Hooi, Financial Controller and Shuba, Trade Compliance.

The team also visited Tang Weng Lye, General Manager (Operations) and his team at Indium Corporation. The last visit of the day was to Smith & Nephew. The team was greeted by Mark Arthun, Managing Director and Site Leader.

Thank you to our members in Penang for inviting us to your offices. We are delighted to have learnt more about your businesses. We look forward to collaborating with you in the future.

Today, AMCHAM in collaboration with Invest Penang hosted a U.S. Business Visa Briefing at PSDC Penang. For this session, Mike Sweeney, Consul General of U.S. Embassy Kuala Lumpur joined us once more to provide an informative presentation to members on the process of various U.S. Visa applications. Members were able to raise questions and seek clarity from Mike.

A very big thank you to Mike for taking the time to conduct this session in Penang.