Carlsberg Malaysia has been awarded and recognized as the ‘Company of the Year’ under the category of ‘Community Impact’ at the seventh edition of the Sustainability & CSR Malaysia Awards 2022.
The brewer’s Covid-19 relief programme, named ‘Safer Schools’ was recognized as an exemplary project in providing meaningful intervention and solution for the communities involved.
Running for two years consecutively since 2020, the ‘Safer Schools’ campaign was aimed at providing a safer learning environment for school-going children and teachers, and advocate the strict health and safety procedures via an edutainment song with lyrics in Bahasa Malaysia, English, Mandarin and Tamil.
A total of RM3.1 million sponsorship in-kind in the form of hundreds of handheld and infrared thermometers as well as full disinfection services has benefitted 1,751 schools across the nation, easing financial strain faced by schools and alleviated public fears over the outbreak of Covid-19 at schools.
The campaign is part of the brewer’s larger Safer Together initiatives that had also benefitted customers and consumers, including aid for business recovery for F&B outlets most affected by the lockdown measures.
This recognition was timely as the Carlsberg Group has just launched its next five-year ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) ambition – ‘Together Towards Zero and Beyond’ (TTZAB) targeting net zero carbon emissions across the entire value chain by 2040.
Carlsberg Malaysia corporate affairs and sustainability director Pearl Lai said the award is a testament of the company’s constant pursuit towards achieving environmental, social and commercial sustainability.
“Our efforts and results around Safer Schools campaign delivered our intents to support the UN Sustainability Development Goals 3: Good Health and Well-Being, and SDG 4: Quality Education.
“With the launch of TTZAB, we are committed to expanding our ESG priorities to matters that are most material to our business and towards societies in which we operate in,” she said.
Organized by CSR Malaysia, the Sustainability & CSR Malaysia Awards 2022 honours outstanding corporations in Malaysia that have excelled in the role of change agents in the socioeconomic and environmental transformation of Malaysia.
