Visa continues to drive economic growth and improve lives through the global electronic payments network that we run and the products we offer. We also believe in using the power and assets of Visa to strengthen our local communities and be a global citizen.
For 20 years, Visa has been a private sector leader in developing innovative, free financial literacy programmes that help people effectively learn the fundamentals of personal finance, including budgeting, saving, responsible spending and using credit wisely. In Malaysia, we have been introducing meaningful financial literacy initiatives with our key partners for several years. In recent years, we partnered with AKPK and United Overseas Bank Bhd to reach out to young Malaysians through financial education board games and mobile apps to teach them the important concepts of money management.
In addition to creating financial literacy programmes, Visa has also been encouraging employees to donate to their charities of choice since 2008 by providing a programme to match their philanthropic generosity. Over the past eight years, the Visa Matching Gift programme has distributed over $11 million to nearly 3,000 charities worldwide.
UPS celebrates its 15 th annual Global Volunteer Month (GVM) this October with UPSers across five continents volunteering at 240 events, contributing 335,000 volunteer hours to give back to their communities. UPS has committed to volunteer 20 million hours by 2020, of which over 70 percent of the goal has been reached.
Through UPS’s membership with IMPACT 2030, UPS continues to encourage global employee volunteering to help advance the achievement of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
During the month of October, Malaysian UPSers headed off to Kampung Dato Hormat, Sabak Bernam, to lend their helping hand in planting mangrove trees. This was done in support of the Global Environment Centre’s Mangrove Rehabilitation program. We volunteer to help the locals, in hope to further prevent land erosion, to rehabilitate the village environment and its habitability in the long run.
Our Corporate Responsibility (CR) programmes covers 3 areas – People, Planet and Purpose.
People focuses on our people and the community. Within PwC, we look at Diversity & Inclusion and Wellbeing. For the wider community, we’re proud of our 2 flagship programmes – Community Outreach Programme (COP) and capacity building for charities. Though the COP is 16 years old, we constantly innovate. This year, we worked with MyReaders to improve literacy. We advise and run workshops to help charities build capacity.
Under Planet are efforts to manage our carbon footprint and assist other companies to act sustainably through our Sustainability & Climate change team.
Our Purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. We have a role to play – to encourage a stronger capital market, one which stakeholders can put their faith in.
We measure the impact of our programmes to evaluate how we’ve helped our stakeholders and to continuously improve. We have been recognised at ACCA’s Malaysian Sustainability Reporting Award (2014) and Best Workplace Practices (2015).
Pfizer strives to adapt to the evolving needs of society and contribute to the overall health and wellness of our world. We continue to build partnerships in communities throughout the world to strengthen health systems, increase access to our medicines and find sustainable solutions to the health challenges of today, and tomorrow. Pfizer consistently is a leader in corporate philanthropic giving, and our commitment to corporate citizenship and community involvement dates to our founding in 1849.
In Malaysia, our involvement with the community started more than 14 years ago. With sustainability and colleague involvement as our principle, our CSR programs are focused on raising health literacy and improve access to Malaysians. To name a few the milestone projects are Pfizer Care-A- Van (CAV), MenCare, Health Fellows Program and SWAT, our colleagues’ community initiative. With Community as one of our corporate Values, we continue to Work Together For a Healthier World.
P&G Malaysia Celebrates 30th Anniversary by Giving Back to Underserved Communities
In January, P&G partnered with the National Disaster Management Agency (NADMA) and iM4U to provide 3,000 hygiene kits, filled with essential items to flood victims in Kedah, Perlis and Sarawak. The hygiene kits prepared were enough for 6,000 people for their daily use.
In April, P&G launched its ‘P&G Light Bulb’ project to build libraries for Orang Asli children, in partnership with The Budimas Charitable Foundation. A total of RM80,000 was raised via fund raising activities (which the company matched to contribute a total of RM160,000), with over 2,000 books donated. The P&G & Budimas Children’s Library was officially opened on 15 September 2017 in Kampung Orang Asli Tanjung Sepat to benefit the community’s 200 children.
In May, P&G also launched “Daripada Ibu, Kepada Ibu” (“From Mothers to Mothers”), a nationwide campaign that encourages Malaysians to help ease the burden of over 500 single mothers during the holy month of Ramadhan by making donations of non-perishable goods.
As a responsible corporate citizen, NationGate has placed CSR activities as a priority. We understand that a strong CSR program is an essential element in achieving good business practices, effective leadership and the nurture of the next
generation of leaders in the industry and nation.
We have prioritized several key categories namely, education, awareness of technology and Science, assistance to less fortunate and natural disaster victims from the year 2013 until 2017, the Group has donated a total of RM718,000 to
CSR programs.
The breakdown of the categories of sponsorship as :
RM272,000 for Education (38 %)
RM168,000 for Charity (23 %)
RM101,000 for Technology (14 %)
RM177,000 for others (25 %)
