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Da Ma Cai staff got into the spirit of Christmas through its Staff-In-The-Community programme, bringing cheers and laughter to the children of Bangsa Ria Centre.
The morning begins just as any other day for Da Ma Cai staff involved in the company’s Staff-In-The-Community programme. With goodies all packed and readied, the group arrived at Bangsa Ria Centre located in the quiet residential neighbourhood of Section 17 Petaling Jaya.
As the group of volunteers settled down, Mr. Nagappan, President of Bangsa Ria, introduced the members at the centre. Among them are the soft spoken Eunice, the friendly and forever smiling Weng Yung, the cheerful Mabel and the silent Cheran.
Bangsa Ria is a community initiative aimed to provide assistance to family with mentally disabled members. It is a non-profit association providing day care and training for the mentally disabled. Established in 2006, its mission is to provide a loving sanctuary where the disabled can develop their skills to the best of their abilities.
The Da Ma Cai volunteers participated in the daily morning activity at the centre where they performed light stretching before playing a round of catch with the children. The activity helped to strengthen the children’s reflexes, coordination, balance and agility.
As afternoon approaches, a scrumptious lunch was served. While the children enjoyed their meal, Da Ma Cai representative gave out the Christmas present prepared for the children, bringing big smiles to them. In the spirit of Christmas Giving, RM5,000 vouchers was also presented to Mr. Nagappan to purchase groceries and teaching materials for the centre’s daily use.
To make the day even better for the children, a clown and a face painting artist arrived right after lunch to entertain them, putting even bigger smiles to the children as the day draws to an end.
“Any gesture whether donation or volunteering will help the children tremendously,” says Mr. Nagappan. He also hoped that other corporation and company can follow the footstep of Da Ma Cai in contributing to Bangsa Ria. To know more about Bangsa Ria, please contact 03-7960 0560.
Da Ma Cai is a brand of Pan Malaysian Pools Sdn Bhd, Malaysia’s authorised numbers forecast operator. On an annual basis, Da Ma Cai actively supports various causes in the areas of education, social welfare and public well-being. Following the acquisition of PMP by Jana Pendidikan Malaysia Sdn Bhd (JPM), all of PMP’s net dividends that JPM receives will be donated to The Community Chest (TCC). With this structure, Da Ma Cai has effectively been transformed from a for-profit organization into a social business, providing long term donations to TCC for the benefit of the Malaysian community.
