In the #KitaJagaKita community spirit of Raya, these programmes were aimed at providing much-needed support to children’s homes that continue to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 20 (Bernama) -- CIMB Group’s corporate social responsibility arm, CIMB Foundation (“the Foundation”), spread some festive cheer over the Ramadan and Hari Raya period through a Baju Raya programme to benefit 250 underprivileged children from 9 children’s homes. In the #KitaJagaKita community spirit of Raya, this programme was aimed at providing much-needed support to children’s homes who continue to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and ease their financial burdens in preparing for their respective celebrations.
 
Due to the ongoing pandemic, CIMB Foundation, which usually brings a group of underprivileged children shopping for Raya clothes every year to look their best for the festive celebrations, decided to provide new Raya clothes and other goodies by sending them directly to the homes instead. These include 3 homes in Selangor, 1 home in Kuala Lumpur and 5 homes in Melaka, such as Persatuan Kebajikan Anak Kami in Kuala Lumpur, Pertubuhan Kebajikan Anak-Anak Yatim dan Miskin Sabak Bernam Selangor, and Pertubuhan Kebajikan Anak-Anak Yatim Islam Daerah Jasin in Melaka.
 
Rafe Haneef, Chief Sustainability Officer of CIMB Group and Chief Executive Officer of CIMB Foundation, said “In line with CIMB Foundation’s key impact pillar of Health & Community Well-being, we are happy to spread some Hari Raya cheer to the underprivileged through the provision of Baju Raya and other assistance. We hope our contributions will help ease their burdens during this period. We wish them, and all who are celebrating, a wonderful Hari Raya Aidilfitri.”
 
Besides this initiative, CIMB Foundation also provided 500 portions of bubur lambuk to the families at PPR Lembah Subang 1 as an added treat while conducting their 20/20 Perfect Vision Programme, an eye screening programme for children in underserved communities in collaboration with Spectruck, a one-stop mobile optical shop. Through this programme, CIMB Foundation has facilitated the eyesight screening of around 1,000 children and provided free eyeglasses to more than 300 children in the area.

About CIMB
CIMB is one of ASEAN’s leading banking groups and Malaysia’s second largest financial services provider, by assets. Listed on Bursa Malaysia via CIMB Group Holdings Berhad, it had a market capitalisation of approximately RM43.5 billion as at 31 December 2020. It offers consumer banking, commercial banking, wholesale banking, transaction banking, Islamic banking and asset management products and services. Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, the Group is present in all 10 ASEAN nations (Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Brunei, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos and Philippines). Beyond ASEAN, the Group has market presence in China, Hong Kong, India, South Korea, the US and UK.
 
CIMB has one of the most extensive retail branch networks in ASEAN with 668 branches and around 34,000 employees as at 31 December 2020. The Group’s investment banking arm is one of the largest Asia Pacific-based investment banks, while it offers comprehensive research coverage of around 950 stocks in the region via its CGS-CIMB joint venture. CIMB is also the 92.5% shareholder of Bank CIMB Niaga in Indonesia, and 94.8% shareholder of CIMB Thai in Thailand.
 
About CIMB Foundation
CIMB Foundation is a non-profit organisation established in November 2007 to implement CIMB Group’s corporate social responsibility and philanthropic initiatives, focusing on four impact areas: Education, Health & Community Well-being, Economic Empowerment, and Climate & Environment, to contribute towards sustainable long-term positive impacts in the communities around us, in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Since its establishment, CIMB Foundation has disbursed over RM174 million through more than 1,270 projects benefiting over 892,000 people in the communities served by CIMB Group, making CIMB Foundation one of ASEAN's leading CSR champions.

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A representative of CIMB Foundation (right) presenting Raya goodies and sets of Baju Raya to Siti Nursuraya Ali (left), Chairman of Persatuan Kebajikan Anak Kami, as part of CIMB’s Baju Raya programme benefitting 250 underprivileged children from nine children’s homes in conjunction with the Hari Raya celebration.

SOURCE: CIMB Group Holdings Berhad

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