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COVID-19 FEATURES What started out as a Twitter hashtag continues to be the clarion call for acts of kindness
among Malaysians in the fight against COVID-19

#KITAJAGAKITA:
hen the MCO was implemented to control Club, Subang Jaya Municipal Council, Yayasan Chow Kit,
the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, What A Waste, the Seberang Jaya state assemblyman in
WMalaysians felt the devastating repercussions Penang and Yayasan Kebajikan Suria Permas in Johor
of not being able to work or operate businesses as normal. Bahru.
Among the hardest hit by the pandemic were those who During the MCO, Sunway’s healthcare arm had offered
lack basic social protection – refugees, migrant workers, help to the Health Ministry and University Malaya Medical
the homeless, single mothers and the B40 community. Centre (UMMC) to transfer their non-COVID-19 cases so
Without the ability to work on a day-to-day basis and that the government facilities could focus on managing
cash savings, these vulnerable groups face the risk of confirmed COVID-19 cases. Sunway healthcare allocated
starvation. 100 beds across Sunway Medical Centre and Sunway
Medical Centre Velocity, with a RM12 million budget to
SUNWAY LIVES OUT #KITAJAGAKITA subsidise treatment for transferred patients.
As charity begins at home, Sunway employees stepped LOOKING OUT FOR
up to the plate to help their affected co-workers through
the pandemic via the #SunwayforGood Fund. Set up in THE VULNERABLE IN SOCIETY
collaboration with the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation, the As part of #SunwayforGood Aid Now programme , a total
fund aids healthcare colleagues, those in essential of RM100,000 was donated to Tabung Prihatin YKN-JKM
and critical services across Sunway Group, as well as COVID-19 by Yayasan Kebajikan Negara (YKN), channeled
Malaysians in the B40 group nationwide. to at least 12,000 beneficiaries in communities affected
by COVID-19. Beneficiaries received dry groceries to
Among the front liners and essential service workers sustain a family of three for up to two weeks.
include healthcare workers at Sunway Medical Centre in Tan Sri Datuk Seri Razman M. Hashim said Sunway Group
Sunway City Kuala Lumpur and Sunway Medical Centre is actively looking at possible collaborations with other
2 4 CHOOSING KINDNESS IN A PANDEMIC Sunway Lost World of Tambun; staff at Sunway’s group next phase of the #SunwayforGood Aid Now programme.
Velocity in Cheras; zookeepers at Sunway Lagoon and
NGOs to disburse the remainder of the RM200,000 for its
of hotels nationwide; facility maintenance workers;
security officers and auxiliary policemen in Sunway
Previously, the #SunwayforGood Aid Now programme
townships nationwide.
aided flood-stricken communities in Terengganu,
At the launch of the fund in April, more than RM800,000 Kelantan and Johor, while Sunway employee volunteers
helped with clean-up efforts in the affected areas.
has been raised by donors.
Sunway Group contributed RM34 million to help 40,000
Recognising the financial hardship faced by tenants who Malaysian beneficiaries amid the pandemic.
could not operate during the MCO, Sunway Malls granted
RM20 million rent-free to all non-essential retailers This includes RM1 million for the National COVID-19 Fund
across its seven malls. to aid unemployed COVID-19 patients, up to RM12 million
from Sunway healthcare division to subsidise the cost of
Sunway Malls also purchased boxes of prepared food treatment for public patients at the Ministry of Health’s
from various F&B operators within their malls for hospitals and University Malaya Medical Centre, and
communities affected by the MCO – a move that helped RM20 million worth of rent-free days to Sunway Malls’
support both affected F&B tenants non-essential retailers. Sunway will continue its efforts
as well as the needy in society. to aid those in need.
The packed food was distributed
to communities in Subang Jaya,
Cheras, Sentul, Penang
and Johor Bahru In times of
1 with NGOs and crisis. At Sunway, we hold true
via
collaborations
trouble, family come
government bodies
together to help overcome a
such as the Lions
3 home. This is what is happening
to the saying charity begins at
now with the Sunway family
5 pandemic.
in facing the extraordinary
challenges posed by the

said Sunway Group Deputy Executive Chairman,
Tan Sri Datuk Seri Razman M. Hashim.

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