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UPON learning that the Malaysian Red Crescent Society (MRCS) Penang branch was seeking funds to buy a four-wheel drive (4WD) for disaster response operations, one company decided to give them such a vehicle.

The Boeing Company promptly donated a Ford Ranger worth RM100,000.

The regional vice-president of South-East Asia Paul Walters said the vehicle would be used to carry rescue personnel and equipment to disaster sites.

“The funding for the vehicle comes at a time when the Malaysian government and the MRCS are upgrading disaster response services,” he said, adding that Boeing shared the sentiment of the countries affected by the tsunami in December last year.

Walters handed the mock key for the vehicle to Penang Governor Yang di-Pertua Negeri Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas, patron of the MRCS Penang branch, during the Annual Dinner recently.

The branch chairman Ir. Saw Ewe Yong said as a voluntary organisation which depended totally on fundraising to carry out its activities and projects, the branch required a minimum annual funding of RM500,000 for various training programmes.

MRCS national chairman Tunku Tan Sri Shahriman Tunku Sulaiman also commended the Penang branch for its active role during the tsunami disaster.

“The branch was actively involved in search and rescue, counselling, health care, mass cooking and other relief operations,” he said.

The event raised a gross sum of RM155,000 for the society.

Aug 20 (Bernama) — The Boeing Company has presented a four-wheel-drive vehicle to the Penang branch of the Malaysian Red Crescent Society (MRCS) as part of efforts to improve the quality of life in the communities in which it operates.

“The four-wheel drive will enable the society to be in a better position to render medical aid in remote areas in times of disaster,” said Boeing’s Regional Vice-President Paul Walters.  He said the US$28,000 (RM103,600) gift was decided by Boeing after a devastating tsunami hit Penang on Dec 26 last year.

Prior to the tsunami disaster, Boeing had donated an ambulance to the Penang branch of the MRCS last year but it was subsequently felt that a 4WD vehicle would serve the society better, especially in remote areas.

More than 60 people were killed by the tidal waves in Malaysia following an earthquake off Indonesia’s Aceh coast on Boxing Day.  As part of its good corporate citizenship efforts, Boeing had budgeted US$44 million worldwide “to put back into the communities where we live and work and 10 per cent of that is spent internationally,” said Walters.

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The Boeing Company had donated an new Ambulance cost about RM150,000 to Malaysian Red Crescent Society Penang Branch in the MRCS Penang Fund Raising Annual Dinner 2004 at Shangri-La Hotel as their recognization on the execellent service that MRCS provided to the communities and its humanitarian works.

The donation was handled to His Excellency the State Governor of Penang, T.Y.T Tun Dato’ Seri Utama (Dr.) Haji Abdul Rahman bin Haji Abbas S.M.N., D.U.P.N., S.P.D.K., D.M.P.N., D.J.N. by The Boeing Region ACEO and witnessed by the MRCS Penang Branch Chairman Ir.Saw Ewe Yong.

The presented honorary guests were Mr.William Charlie – The United State Ambassador, Mr.Chan Hon Kwong, Mr.Lim Yam Koi and Mr.Lim Kim Chuan.

The Boeing is a company that provided largest fight service in the world and it has very wide global networks to 145 countries in the world.

There was also sponsorship from Renesas Semiconductor, Agilent Technologies, A.A.Anthony Security, Malaysia Trade & Transport Co., Oracle Corporation, Boon Siew, Mini-Circuits Technologies, The Penang Floral Art Society and etc.