Copyright © 2013 Singtel (CRN: 199201624D). All Rights Reserved ACTIVATE EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEERISM We encourage staff volunteering on an individual or team basis. Alongside financial support, we want our people to work with our STLF beneficiaries and other Voluntary Welfare Organisations (VWOs) to take a more active role in our communities. To this end, we give our employee one day of paid volunteer leave per annum. We continue to advocate our VolunTeaming concept – teambuilding with a CSR element – where the team approach encourages our people to volunteer together with their colleagues.   In FY2013, more than 1,900 staff volunteers contributed about 11,000 hours – company-organised events as well as activities at individual and team levels – to community and environmental projects. This includes over 5,500 VolunTeaming hours clocked by various departments through 37 activities with 15 VWOs.   We are pleased with our overall volunteer hours as they followed an exceptional year in FY2012 when STLF’s special 10th anniversary Flag Day saw 7,000 hours clocked by our people. Compared to last year, the number of VolunTeaming hours declined as there was a one-off activity of more than 3,000 volunteering hours by a big department with about 600 staff volunteers in FY2012. However, the number of VolunTeaming activities saw a significant 54% increase, showing that VolunTeaming is fast gaining traction among our people.   Volunteering hours and number of staff volunteers   Singtel’s Overseas Volunteering Programme Our financial response to aid the typhoon disaster in the Philippines in December 2012 led to our joint overseas volunteering programme (OVP) with our associate Globe in one of the hardest hit areas, the Compostela Valley in Davao.   In March 2013, 76 volunteers – 16 from Singtel and 60 from Globe – toiled under the scorching sun for around five days to build homes for the families displaced by Typhoon Bopha.   They were among the 80,000 people who joined the biggest Bayani Challenge, or Hero Challenge, organised by VWO Gawad Kalinga (which means ‘to give care’ in English) since its building project was launched in 2006. We were pleased to partner Globe and Gawad Kalinga for the 2nd time for our OVP. Our staff volunteers were humbled, and at the same time, inspired and happy that they could contribute in a small way to directly improving the lives of the people in our regional communities.   Employee volunteerism Celebrating Children’s Day STLF beneficiaries like most primary schools celebrate Children’s Day. As part of our VolunTeaming programme, two groups of Singtel colleagues, about 90 people in total, spent the day with our STLF beneficiary children. They helped to manage a carnival at the Spastic Children’s Association School attended by over 400 children. They manned games and snack stations and chaperoned children with high dependency needs, such as those in wheelchairs and walkers.           Another group of colleagues took a group of about 90 children from APSN Chaoyang School on an outing to Gardens by the Bay.   Outing To the Zoo 45 NCS colleagues also demonstrated their sense of community spirit by bringing an exciting day of wildlife and sunshine to more than 100 children under the care of Ang Mo Kio Family Service Centre with an outing to the zoo in June 2012.