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DOING GOOD BY GIVING BACK

Berita Sunway spoke to three beneficiaries from
our year-end corporate responsibility campaign

Some see Christmas as a time for exchanging via a truck roving around Klang Valley.
presents, others see it as a season of goodwill and giving. Supported by Sunway Pals, Fujifilm, Parkson,
At Sunway, we have been giving back in the and AEON, the programme benefited 1,500
form of food, scholarships, job opportunities underprivileged children between the ages of four
and more, all of which are in line with our and 20 from various welfare homes in the
#SunwayforGood pledge to make the world a Klang Valley.
better place. The objective of this campaign is to empower
Last year, Sunway Group embarked on the Malaysians to do well by doing good and to reignite
'Celebrate Giving with Sunway' campaign that the spirit of giving by contributing back to society.
involved collecting gifts from the public
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

BERITA SUNWAY | JAN—MAR 2020

Berita Sunway spoke to three representatives
from three different welfare homes to see
what they had to say about the campaign.

JACKON PAU, Rumah Charis Coodinator S.K. MANIMARAN, Pusat Jagaan NURUL FATHIYAH AHMAD RIDWAN
says their children mostly came from drug- Siddharthan Founder and President works has been a caretaker at Rumah Amal
inflicted homes or are children of former full time at the welfare home. His day to day Kasih Bestari for six years. The children
bandits and single parents. Rumah Charis revolves around almost everything: from at her welfare home comprises those
consists of 40 children, aged two to 18, cared managing paperwork to ferrying the children who either grew up orphaned or were
for by two housemothers. The children are to school. abandoned.
taught to be independent — doing almost Before becoming president of the welfare Some of them, she says, come from
everything by themselves, except for cooking. home, Manimaran worked in marketing and poor families who do not earn enough to
On Sunway’s initative, Pau says, was a charity worker for 12 years. His former care for their own children. A total of 75
“Sometimes the children wish for gifts, but bosses handed the centre to him after a children currently reside at Rumah Amal
we can't afford them. I am glad Sunway is dispute. He said, “Let me run the place, the Kasih Bestari.
doing this because their wishes can now be children are close to me. If I send them back, “My hope is to see them loved and
fulfilled.” I know I will regret it when I see them at the cared for. As a Muslim, I feel compelled
Managing a home is not cheap. Pau says wrong place and wrong time in the future.” to aid them” she says. “They don’t know
they spend up to RM30,000 monthly. “But it Manimaran is glad that Sunway's anything and are so innocent. As adults,
is worth it. I hope they will have a brighter initiative is wonderful as it brings joy to we should care for them so they can grow
12 future,” he says. the children. to be become independent."
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