GHL System Berhad Annual Report 2020

A N N U A L R E P O R T 2 0 2 0 27 SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT CONT’D HUMAN RESOURCE (Cont’d) Corporate Social Responsibility The Group has always remained true to its corporate social responsibility roots, firmly believing that a giving heart would translate into core values that cascade right down to every employee. Employees were actively engaged in community based activities as part of their work culture. In 2020, two (2) major initiatives were executed, including “ Invest in a Dream – ArtNExploration Workshop ”, and “ e-Fintech school ”. Malaysia Over 60 cohorts from around Asia Pacific, including four (4) employees from GHL, benefited from the intensive e-Fintech APAC programme, organised by @fortnynja. The programme, which was sponsored by the Group at a cost of RM30,000, aimed to gather fintech experts to share practical and useful insights, knowledge, as well as experience through real life cases. From this journey, the programme managed to meet its objective of building a sustainable and robust fintech ecosystem. In January 2020, the Group continued to contribute and sponsor a sum of RM20,000 to the ArtNExploration - ‘Invest in a Dream ’ initiative, giving opportunity to 20 underprivileged children from various homes, namely Rumah Mega and Karunai Illam, to enhance their artistic skills through art classes. An estimate of 205 individuals within the community received direct benefits from the fund that was garnered through sold artwork. The ‘ Invest in a Dream ’ project aimed at inculcating studies of virtues - respect, loyalty, kindness, and integrity - over a period of six (6) months. The children were given tasks to create art that expressed their thoughts and feelings based on the weekly virtues shared. To further instil Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) values amongst employees, monthly departmental CSR activities were carried out during the first half of 2020, whereby each department were given a specific budget to execute a CSR project that supported a non-profit organisation of their choice. The allocated budget allowed each department to raise additional funds that were meant to be channelled to their selected beneficiaries. A total of four (4) departments managed to carry out their CSR projects, which raised approximately RM14,256 for four (4) different homes.