| About 800 volunteers comprising our people and their family members hit the streets of Singapore on 24 June last year to raise an impressive S$80,000 as part of our tenth anniversary celebrations for the Singtel Touching Lives Fund, our philanthropy programme focused on helping disadvantaged children and young people in Singapore. The Fund raised a record S$2.6 million for our beneficiaries, bringing the total funds raised to over S$22 million in a decade. |
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| Outside Singapore, our neighbouring countries saw some of the worst natural disasters, notably the prolonged floods in Thailand and Typhoon Sendong in the Philippines. As part of our Regional Disaster Response for countries where we have strategic business interests, Singtel was quick to provide monetary assistance to the affected communities. Employee volunteers from Singtel and our mobile associate AIS also jointly refurbished a school in Ayutthaya, Thailand, that was damaged by flooding. |
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In addition, Singtel became the first operator partner of Ericsson Response to provide satellite services for emergency communication to assist them with United Nation’s disaster relief efforts.
Following the completion of our carbon footprinting exercise in Singapore, we plan to formulate our carbon strategy in the coming year and review new opportunities for reducing our footprint. |
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| In the new financial year, we will also commence an extensive Stakeholder Engagement exercise that will cover many major stakeholder groups. We will be seeking their views on sustainability issues pertaining to our business which they are most concerned with. This will help us refine our programmes around our four key sustainability pillars of marketplace, people, environment and community as well as structure the way we report on our sustainability performance in future. |
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| I look forward to a successful engagement exercise with you, our key stakeholder. And I encourage you to share with us your views on our sustainability efforts and issues that matter to you. |
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Chua Sock Koong
Group Chief Executive Officer |
