Pantry Quips - FORMIS BASS' 2nd CSR

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Author or Last edited by: How Pek Ching

The Marketing and QA Division initiated a quarterly donation drive in early April to do our bit to help needy and underprivileged people. We picked Persatuan Warga Tua ( dan Kanak-kanak ) Wilayah Persekutuan this time to channel our donations to after going through their profile.

For 3 weeks, we saw donations coming in all kinds, a bit of everything as per listed in their Need List such as cooking oil, oyster sauce, biscuits, mee hoon, shampoo, soap, toothbrushes and tooth paste, pencils, colour pencils, pre-loved clothing and pharmaceutical goods (plaster, calamine lotion, cotton etc) plus of course cash donations.

We chose 14 May to drop off the goods collected to the home. Just before we left, we were asked to go over to Dato’ Mah Siew Kwok’s room to sing him a birthday song. Once we were done with the wishing and singing, we saw Danny Chiam, COO of Applied Business Systems and asked him to contribute to this cause. Not only did he donate without asking for more information, he even got his 2 staff to contribute as well. Other than them, Dato’ Mah also forked out a generous sum. On behalf of the staff of FBS, we would like to thank them all for their kind generosity.

With the additional sum collected, we headed off to a hypermarket and stocked up 2 cartful loads of items in the list such as jam, canned sardines, soya sauce, tomato ketchup, milo, milk powder, rice, soap, washing powder and so forth.

Once done, we went over to the home in Taman Petaling. We were glad to have picked Persatuan Warga Tua ( dan Kanak-kanak ) Wilayah Persekutuan as the beneficiary. The home is a double-storey link house which shelters 28 occupants of which 18 were children. The older children were happy to receive us and the occupants helped us to retrieve the goods from our vehicles.

With this, we would like to express our gratitude to all who have contributed to this cause. Your kind deed is deeply appreciated.