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REBUILDING COMMUNITIES
During the year 2017, CMS employees continued to carry out ‘Doing
Good’ activities such as rebuilding works and community clean-ups at
schools, villages, mosques, churches and many others. Our ‘Doing Good’
programmes are not only carried out in Kuching but throughout Sarawak
especially in the rural areas. Several schools have benefitted from
improved road access and better amenities.
CMS Cement Industries Sdn Bhd carried out community engagement
initiatives with villages in and around Mambong arranging programmes
and activities that benefit the communities as awhole such as sponsorship
of prizes for students who performed well academically, book donations
and motivational talks to the schools and sponsorship of chairs for the
various community halls.
Whenever we do surveys of quarry lands, we will open dialogues with
the affected local community to ensure they are well informed of our
activities and to assure them that we will not encroach upon their land.
We conduct regular dust monitoring at Kampung Mambong to ensure
compliance with regulatory requirement. The results of each dust
monitoring survey are shared with the community heads and kampung
representatives. Our emissions from the plant are always well below the
permissible regulatory level.
Issues on flooding at the Mambong area were raised a few times.
Investigation revealed that the flooding in the area was due to a
combination of factors including low lying land, lack of proper drainage
for the flow of water to the river, development of other projects,
blockage of drainage channels, and siltation in the river. CMS had already
widened the road and improved drainage during the construction of the
Mambong cement mill so these issues will require the collective inputs
of government agencies such as the Public Works Department (Jabtan
Kerja Raya or JKR), the Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID) and
the Padawan Municipal Council (Majlis Perbandaraan Padawan or MPP)
which CMS will help to coordinate.
CMS Land Sdn Bhd, together with another local contractor for The
Gateway Towers, is sponsoring workers’ quarters for the Sarawak
Association for the Welfare of Intellectually Disabled Children.
Construction commenced on 18 December 2017.
CMS Land has signed a 15-year rent-free tenancy with a division of the
Sarawak Economic Development Corporation for the development of
Borneo 744, Malaysia’s first Blue Ocean Entrepreneurs Township. Borneo
744 started operations in March 2017.
Projek Bandar Samariang Sdn Bhd held the 20
th
anniversary celebration
of the founding of Samariang township where book donations
were presented to primary and secondary schools. The anniversary
celebrations included a free medical check-up booth, a blood donation
drive, children’s colouring contest, and free music concert. The event
finale saw the grand prize of a motorcycle being given away.
During the rainy season, our road maintenance crew is always quick
to respond whenever there is a landslide, road collapse or flooding in
Sarawak.
2015
2016
2017
CSR man-hours committed by CMS employees
Rebuilding Communities
16,088
16,134
18,524
Sustaining Charitable Organisations
9,868
11,992
15,655
Environmental & Health Awareness Programmes
11,776
11,090
8,715
Saving Lives
3,690
4,644
4,080
Community Clean-ups
(gotong-royong)
2,104
1,674
1,446
Social: Society