Yinson Annual Report 2019

Sustainability Statement Futurestars Sports Programme Yinson is a firm believer in the value provided by sports for children’s development and learning. Through our support for the Futurestars initiative and their sports programmes for school children in Ghana, Yinson has advanced the empowerment of local school children and the development of teamwork, dedication and leadership skills in programme participants. In 2018, as part of Futurestars’ CSR Partners Day, Yinson worked together with other participating partners, teachers from Futurestars schools, staff from the Ghana Education Service and a local charity to sort and distribute sports equipment to five schools in Tema. The 4 th Annual Futurestars Festival of Sport was held at the Tema Sports Stadium in 2018. The event was attended by approximately 600 attendees including schoolchildren, Futurestars partners, Yinson representatives and other stakeholders. To date, approximately 2,500 children have benefited from the Futurestars Sports Programme. The positive impacts of the programme have also cascaded throughout the community, as all five schools with the programme in place have seen increased levels of attendance and lower absenteeism since the initiative’s inception. Field Ready Alliance ® Yinson serves as Associate Partner for Field Ready Alliance ® , an intensive programme aimed at improving the employability of students in Africa by equipping themwith industry-specific skills, knowledge and capabilities. Field Ready Alliance ® partners with companies and the local governments of participating regions to support licensed technical institutions for training and development purposes. As Associate Partner, Yinson contributed USD50,000 to the Field Ready Alliance ® team in Ghana, where FPSO JAK is based, to help eligible underprivileged students become ‘field ready’ talents for the oil and gas industry. OCBC Cycle OCBC Cycle Singapore is a mass cycling event organised annually by OCBC in Singapore. Proceeds from the event are contributed to nominated NGOs or charitable organisations such as the National Cancer Research Fund and the Singapore Children’s Society. Yinson continues to be recognised as the event’s largest corporate donor, an honour we have held since first sponsoring the event in 2016. Our participation in OCBC Cycle Singapore offers wide-reaching positive impacts for our community, from the individuals who participate in the event to the worthwhile organisations who benefit from it. Hear Them Speak symposium Moderated and produced by Lionel Tan of the T’ang Quartet, “Hear Them Speak - Empowering the Student’s Voice” is Singapore’s first music symposium enabling social transformation through arts. The two-day event held in November 2018 included a series of panel discussions, masterclasses, workshops and lectures where key speakers explored how music teaching skills and artistic ideals can be used to champion social goals. Yinson supported this new initiative and the development of the arts community in Singapore by serving as a sponsor for the forum, contributing a total of SGD10,000 to the event. Yinson Holdings Berhad ANNUAL REPORT 2019 62