UPS (NYSE:UPS) employees in Malaysia dedicated their time andeffort in 2019 towards helping the underprivileged in thecommunity, including the homeless and those with mental healthdisabilities, contributing over 2,500 volunteer hours and RM41,000to charities in 2019. Employees’ efforts were especially focused inOctober during UPS’s Global Volunteer Month where they dedicatedtheir time at the D’home Mental Health Association in Penang andthe Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Kuala Lumpur,logging a total of 922 volunteer hours to the organisations andbrightening the lives of beneficiaries.
UPS’s annual Global Volunteer Month is spearheaded by The UPSFoundation, the company’s global philanthropic and corporatecitizenship arm. All across the world, UPS employees get togetherwith their friends and family to give back to the communities inwhich they live and work, and engage in activities such asvolunteering at charities, clearing rubbish in the environment, andproviding assistance to the homeless in the community.
At the D’home Mental Health Association in Penang whichprovides help to patients with mental illness, UPS employees flexedtheir ‘green thumbs’, working on the grounds of the charity to helpplant trees and maintain the garden. These areas are especiallyimportant for the association, serving a therapeutic role forD’home’s patients. Through The UPS Foundation, UPS Malaysia alsoprovided the organisation with a RM41,000 grant which will go tothe association’s ‘Fun Walk and Food Fair Carnival’ charity eventto be held in March 2020. UPS volunteers have also pledged theirhelping hands at the event.
Over in Kuala Lumpur, UPS volunteers also offered theirassistance at the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA),cooking up a storm in the charity’s kitchen, preparing a sumptuousNasi Lemak spread for the people experiencing homelessness aroundthe city’s Pudu district.
Outside of Global Volunteer Month, UPS also runs a programcalled “Neiour to Neiour”, where its global employees take part inevents organised by NGOs and do volunteer work in theircommunities.