This year Maybank Kim Eng (Vietnam) volunteer group has visited and delivered many meaningful activities for children in Phu Binh hamlet, Phu Rieng, Binh Phuoc – the very poor remoted province in the south of Vietnam. It took the team nearly 4-hour driving and going deep into the pipe-stone road leading to the rubber forest. Together with local’s people, the volunteer group had helped to repair classroom’s facilities for elementary students in the hamlet, including pulling electricity, tiling to against leaking, adding ceiling fans, repainting classrooms’ walls, replacing broken facilities, placing a small reading cabinet called Library “I love reading” to nurse the passion of reading of these little ones. The volunteer team also brought several kind of tuys done by recycling materials including swings, seesaws made by old car’s tyres, those things brought a lot of joy and happiness to the children. At the same time, they also organised many useful and exhilarating activities to energize these children before a new school year begins. 165 children in school age from the hamlet has received gifts of school bags, notebooks, pencil cases, school stationery and pretty lanterns for the coming Moon Festival. 25 school desks have also been awarded to the excellent students from poor families. The effort and enthusiasm shown by Maybank Kim Eng volunteers has left many significant impression on the teachers, students as well as the residents in the hamlet. Prior the Global CR Day, CR team has organized series “Lunch for A Cause”, offering lunch to the staff to raise funds to help children in Phu Binh hamlet. Proceeds from “Lunch for A Cause” has been channeled towards classroom’s repair, purchase of new books, school stationery for chidren. |
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KataKatha Maybank Kim Eng believes that it takes more than economic growth to build a community. For ASEAN to grow, the community needs arts and culture to infuse it with identity, soul and imagination, and to encourage diversity in thinking. We also believe that the region’s economic integration can only be fully achieved with social integration of its people. The key to ASEAN’s social integration lies in our commonalities derived from our shared history and culture. That is why the Katakatha initiative was created. A truly ambitious project, we aspire to make KataKatha the platform to explore and enhance the appreciation of ASEAN’s commonalities through arts and culture. Through KataKatha, we also hope to promote the region’s rich arts and culture, with the aim of perpetuating its development while retaining its originality and uniqueness. We believe in investing in the region’s arts and culture. |
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