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SELAMAT HARI RAYA – CSR INITIATIVE FOR OUR MALAYSIAN WORKERS

12th May 2021

Selamat Hari Raya to everyone!
Since the pandemic started, we have been housing Malaysian workers in our 3 hectares wide campsite. While most of the businesses in Singapore had come to a halt, our Malaysian workers from essential sectors such as cleaning, engineering, and so on, have been working tirelessly for us, even during the festive period. Some Malaysian workers here have not been able to return to their families since 2020 Malaysia’s MCO (Movement Control Order) and closing of borders. This is their 2nd Hari Raya in Singapore without their families with them. Hence, our team decided to come up with an initiative within our campsite in hopes to keep their spirits up!

We have purchased groceries to be packed and distributed to the workers as part of our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) efforts. After weeks of packing and planning, we are finally able to distribute them! The care packs consist of daily necessities such as rice, masks, coffee, raya cookies etc. Some of our colleagues have also taken the extra mile to gather donations from their friends and relatives to chip in more money or raya cookies and drinks to add to the care pack!

On 12th May, our team decided to make Bandung (a very popular drink among our Malay friends and colleagues, we realized!) for the workers residing in our campsite. We bought the ingredients and set up a couple of Bandung Booth at our hard-court, complying with safety distance measures of course! Along with the Bandung Booth, we also have a generous donor “Warung Kita” whom cooked and prepared 170 sets of Rendang Chicken with Ketupat for the workers! They have arranged the whole day on the 12 just to cater to us so the workers can have a home cooked meal in Singapore. Some of our colleagues were invited down to assist in packing them in bentos and they were salivating at the looks and smell of the food!

From 6.30pm onwards, our team dispatch the workers room by room turns to visit our Food booth and Bandung Booth with their bottles and flasks, filling them up with smiles plastered on their faces. It was a success!
To end of the evening, we have also prepared the all-time favourite Malaysian Ice Cream (Ice Pops) and to our delight, the workers were so surprised and elated seeing it.

Each team will be tasked to build a robot together. After which they will be going through the learning session on manual controls and how to control them. This will allow their robots to be unique as compared to the rest. Their final objective will be to pit the robot that they built against man-made obstacles such as to carry items and moving from point A to point B or to going through a maze or to dance! The possibilities is endless! They will then customise a message for the children using the robots built and have it delivered to the beneficiaries.

 

Learning Objectives

 

  • To understand that it is not always the results that matter but also the process
  • Engage participant’s imagination and problem solving skills
  • Increase confidence and commitment levels
    Allows greater meaning to giving and helping those in need
  • To tap on each other’s strengths and weaknesses

If you are looking for an exciting challenge with a meaningful element, The Supermarket Race Challenge! will be the program for you! Teams will get to earn cash by attempting a series of challenges along the race, in a bid to earn enough money to purchase essential items for the selected beneficiary. Given a limited time and facing multiple challenges, teams will have to plan carefully and make strategic decisions to optimize their resources, and purchase as many items as possible for a good cause.