UMW donates three Toyota vehicles to Mercy Meena L. Ramadas
Jemilah gets the feel of a Toyota as Suseela and Abdul Halim look on.
UNITED Motor Works (UMW) recently donated three Toyota vehicles – two Toyota Hilux units and a Toyota Hiace to the Malaysian Medical Relief Society (Mercy) as part of a RM798,400 community service grant.
The contribution was part of a corporate social responsibility (CSR) partnership agreement between UMW and Mercy to help the relief agency carry out projects to help remote and vulnerable communities in Sabah and Sarawak.
The UMW Community Service grant will bear the operational costs of community programmes on reproductive health, personal hygiene, dental care, eye care and presentations on long-house fire reduction.
Under the partnership agreement, UMW staff will also undergo training with Mercy Malaysia and be deployed to assist relief missions in critical times.
The vehicles were presented to Mercy Malaysia president Tan Sri Dr Jemilah Mahmood by UMW group managing director Datuk Abdul Halim Harun.
“These three UMW vehicles are assets for us. They will be useful to send volunteers to mobile clinics and for delivering medicine and medical equipment into the Sarawakian jungles”, said Dr Jemilah.
“Despite the difficult economic times we live in, we are glad to have the financial resources to support the worthy causes that organisations like Mercy Malaysia are involved in”, said UMW executive director Suseela Menon.
She said UMW had also launched a volunteer programme called Community Champions Programme for its staff to acquire hands-on experience of the group’s CSR efforts.
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