The Group also promoted fundraising
and awareness programmes
for charities like Children’s Aid Society,
Handicap Welfare Association, Kwong
Wai Shiu Hospital, Yellow Ribbon Fund
and Viriya Community Services.
Volunteerism
CapitaLand organised company-wide
charity projects to engage the
staff and their family members. Such
activities included the Charity Bazaar
where items sold included accessories
made by the Canossaville Children’s
Home. Individual stalls were manned
by both staff and their family members.
CapitaLand continued to be a strong
supporter of the SGX Bull Run with 50
employees signing up for the race to
raise funds for the underprivileged.
CapitaLand actively engaged its
tenants, residents and shoppers to
participate in various charitable fundraising
activities, awareness campaigns,
parties for the beneficiaries, and visits to
charities, both in Singapore and overseas.
Beyond Singapore
The Group’s commitment to the
underprivileged also extends abroad.
In China, CapitaLand continued to
support the government’s initiative
to help children in rural areas receive
elementary education by funding
the third CapitaLand Hope School in Honghe County. CapitaLand
sponsored computer laboratories
in its CapitaLand Hope Schools in
Lancang County and Cuiyun District,
Yunnan Province, and offered two
scholarships per school for outstanding
students to study in Singapore’s
Temasek Polytechnic.
CapitaLand also supported
Sun Village, a home for orphans and
underprivileged children, the Zhiguang
School, a home for intellectually disabled
children, in Beijing, and donated
RMB100,000 to the Ningbo Jiangbei
District Charity Federation to help
needy students.
In Australia, Australand supported
the Property Industry Foundation’s
efforts to help homeless children
and children at risk and the Oxfam
Trailwalker Sydney, aimed at overcoming
poverty. Australand also supported
medical research.
In Indonesia, Ascott staff and
residents raised about US$27,000 for
the Jogyakarta earthquake survivors,
and the staff aided in the rebuilding
of public facilities.
Ascott staff and residents brought
gifts and Christmas cheer to the
Salvation Army Children’s Home in
Malaysia and the Holy Family Child
Care Adoption Center in South Korea.
In the Philippines, Ascott continued
to partner Gawad Kalinga and raised
US$12,000 to build 12 homes for
underprivileged children and their
families. Staff also helped out with
the actual construction. Ascott staff
and residents launched the Leyte
Landslide and Typhoon Mileno
Donation Drive to collect cash
and necessities.
In Vietnam, Ascott staff presented gifts and cash donations to young
orphans and the elderly at the Center
3 welfare home.
In the Bahamas, CapitaLand
contributed to The Butch Kerzner
Memorial Fund to improve
playgrounds and other sports
facilities in public schools.
Community
Education
As education is the key to a better
future for all, CapitaLand contributed
generously to the Lee Kuan Yew School
of Public Policy (LKY SPP). CapitaLand
also sponsored two overseas students
under the CapitaLand LKY SPP
Scholarship for the Master in Public
Administration programme. This forms
part of CapitaLand’s support for the
Asian community to develop talents
who would play a significant role in
the transformation of their economies.
CapitaLand also extended awards
and bursaries to outstanding tertiary
students in disciplines of nursing, real
estate, retail management and hospitality.
Cultural Exchange
CapitaLand believes in promoting
a healthy cultural exchange between
Singapore and overseas communities in
which it is active. CapitaLand sponsored
the overseas debut in Singapore of the
highly acclaimed “Jinsha” (Immortality)
musical from China, which is named
after a popular Chengdu heritage site.
CapitaLand will enhance the Group’s
commitment as a socially responsible
global corporate citizen, to contribute
to the societies that it operates in, and
to promote a sustainable environment
for future generations. |
