PTP cheer for the needy

PORT of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) is allocating several million ringgit for its corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme this year. 

Senior general manager corporate division Shahrull Allam Shah Abdul Halim said the money would be used for the environmental, educational and poverty eradication-related activities. 

Declining to disclose the exact allocation, he said most of the activities would be held within Gelang Patah and Pontian. 

Shahrull presented schoolbags, stationery items, uniforms, shoes, water bottles and RM100 cash each to 139 children from Kampung Orang Asli Simpang Arang near Gelang Patah recently. 

He said this was the first time that PTP had chosen orang asli children as recipients of the educational aid and the programme would probably be extended to other orang asli villages in Pontian in the future. 

Johor has 62 orang asli villages, of which seven are in Pontian district. 

“We are also open to giving scholarships to orang asli students who are doing well in their studies and assist them up to tertiary education,” Shahrull said. 

He said some 14 schools from Pontian and Gelang Patah were involved in PTP’s educational activities that included motivational camps and tuition classes. 

He said PTP also gave opportunities for orang asli with the qualifications and experience to work at the port and currently had 30 of them working in the port.

By Zazali Musa