Corporate Social Responsibility

Minconsult is fully committed towards fulfilling its corporate social responsibility to the community, and participates regularly in various community projects.  Visits to Welfare Homes and Old Folks Homes are regularly conducted under the auspice of the Minconsult Sports and Recreational Club (MSRC) with full support of senior management. In addition, Company employees are encouraged to participate in the half yearly blood donation drive. This is to help replenish the supply at blood banks of hospitals within the Klang Valley.

The tsunami that struck Aceh Province in Indonesia on 26 December 2004 left several thousand children homeless. One of the projects that were undertaken by Minconsult was the coordinating of disaster relief efforts as well as providing technical assistance for the setting up of an orphanage at Kubapaten (District), Pidie, Aceh Province. The Pidie Orphanage became fully operational in September 2007 and now provides shelter to some 200 orphans. It is being run by MINA Raya, a joint  Malaysian-Indonesian charity trust fund. Minconsult is proud to be involved in such humanitarian work in Aceh.

 Many employers are reluctant to hire physically-challenged persons, due to doubts about their skills and capabilities. Minconsult provided computer and skills trainings to a group of ten (10) physically-challenged young people for a period of twelve weeks in May-July 2007. The training covered basic use of AutoCAD and MS Office software and mathematics and language skills. Participants were given a feel of a real working environment and the opportunity to be self-reliant in society. On completion of the training, Minconsult subsequently employed two of the trainees. A few other participants also secured employment with other engineering companies. Minconsult intends to organize further computer and skills training courses for the handicapped as part of its regular CSR programme.

In the present times, the existence of under-privileged children cannot be ruled out.  Minconsult and its employees are committed to support and help such underprivileged children by providing them an opportunity to be well equipped in English and Mathematics.  This will help them to climb the fundamental steps of social hierarchy.  It is also necessary to identify potential children who would be able to teach other children what they have learnt in order to propagate the system of learning and teaching among the children.



 

For this purpose, 20 students from SJK(T) Ladang Edinburgh, Taman Bukit Maluri, Kepong, class V and VI were identified.  The teaching team from Minconsult comprised of staff who dedicated themselves to this teaching programme.   The team made a beginning by providing books, stationery and basic amenities for proper execution of the programme.  The team started at the first level of students with an intention to begin with beginners, as they come with no background and were easy to be moulded.






 

The team planned an intensive yet interesting and fun-learning syllabus that provided an approach, which was not conventional, but invoked interest among the participants on the subject.  Classes conducted both at the Segambut School premises and at Minconsult Office for duration of 12 weeks.

The course covered basic general English and Mathematics, which is essential in day to day activities.  For example, in English the students were taught about letter writing, telephone conversation, banking procedures, business,  communication while buying and selling, hygiene and ethics, etc. 

Similarly in mathematics, they were taught about time in various places in the globe, what is money and how it should be used, savings, tax, measurements, mathematical graphics and data handling.  Importance of mathematical tables was also stressed. On completion, the participants and the school teachers were requested to continue teaching other students of the school what was taught during this program.

Minconsult will be donating 10 computers to the school.