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Coming To The Aid Of Fire Victims In Sri Aman

Thursday, 19 February 2009, Sri Aman: The construction and road maintenance companies of CMS group showed they are indeed a caring lot when they presented food rations and clothing items to help ease the heavy burden of 122 victims of fire who had lost their homes and life possessions earlier this month.

CMS Roads, PPES Works and CMS Pavement Tech representatives handed over RM1,350 worth of food and clothing to the families of the former Rh. Gendi located at Kampung Semilang, 30km from Sri Aman.

When the 30 year old longhouse burned down on 3 February 2009, it left 16 families in dire need of emergency supplies, food and clothing.

Ever ready to help those in need, the teams from CMS Roads, PPES Works and CMS Pavement Tech set about a quick donation and collection drive. Wholly initiated and funded by concerned employees, the hand-over of items was made after a long journey through poor road conditions to meet the affected longhouse folk.

CMS Roads Deputy General Manager, Dahlim Mungkil, spoke on behalf of the 3 companies, to express sympathy on the loss of their longhouse. “We sincerely hope that our small contribution can ease the burden of those affected by the recent fire while they are recovering from their loss. The residents are in our thoughts and prayers,” he said today.

Rufus Ak Unor, who spoke on behalf of the Tuai Rumah, Gendi Ak Ranti, thanked CMS for the generous contributions.

CMS does good for ex-leprosy community

Tuesday, 2 September 2008, Kuching: Employee volunteers from three CMS companies spent their weekend extending a helping hand to the Malaysian Leprosy Relief Association (MALRA) in support of Sarawak’s community of ex-leprosy patients and their families.

Volunteers from PPES Works, CMS Roads and CMS Pavement Tech spent the weekend of 23 and 24 August 2008 upgrading the drainage system at the MALRA Multi-Purpose Hall located at Jalan Puncak Borneo, Kuching.

Keeping the multi-purpose hall in good condition is important to MALRA and to the residents of neighbouring Kampung Sinar Baru as the hall is one source of much-needed funds.

MALRA uses rental income from the stalls to subsidize education and welfare for the State’s needy former leprosy community. This includes providing bus fare for students and supplementary income for low-income families living at Kampung Sinar Baru, as well as paying for traveling expenses for out-station leprosy sufferers seeking treatment at the Rajah Charles Brooke Memorial Hospital.

“MALRA’s multi-purpose hall currently houses food-stalls plus one sundry shop. Most of the vendors are families of former leprosy patients living at neighbouring Kampung Sinar Baru,” said MALRA’s Sarawak branch president, Joseph Kiu.

Despite having been cured from leprosy for many years, the strong stigma attached to the disease has left many who live in Kampung Sinar Baru struggling to gain mainstream employment, education and acceptance in society.

“Having the Hall’s drainage system upgraded from earth drainage to proper concrete drains will allow stalls to open all year round, and not be washed with mud each time heavy rains come. We are grateful to the construction arm of CMS for this gesture,” Joseph Kiu said. The hall is located at the foot of a hill, and is prone to mud-slides and during heavy rains.

The construction would not have been possible without the time and effort of Goh Seng Chua, Harun-ur-Rashid, Normaslina Mohd Nor, Shirly Ann Clarke, Suhadi Sulaiman, Abu Bakar Md Suhai, Abdul Rahim Jamal, Bilin Dandi, David Yung, Anthony, Boon Kut Leong, Dolhardy, Law Lee Eik, Noorhisham, Pasang, Raidin, Ronny, Vun Jan Loong, Sin, Teo Khing Tnia, Then Jit Choi, and Zailey.

PPES Works, CMS Roads and CMS Pavement Tech have lent continuous support to Kampung Sinar Baru since 2007 through its CMS Doing Good Community Outreach Programme.

Apart from donations of food, clothes and educational items, teams of employee volunteers from the three companies have regularly assisted the residents with community clean-ups and small construction works.

CMS “Doing Good”: Building schools in Betong

Monday 4 August 2008, Betong: Even after a hard week of work, 33 CMS Roads employees spent a whole Saturday doing construction and excavation work to help two primary schools in Betong on 2 August 2008.

The employee volunteers dug deep to find heavy-duty energy required to carry out much-needed repairs to local schools SK St Augustine and SK Abang Abdul Kadir during their day of rest.

Thanks to their community spirit, SK St Augustine now has newly resurfaced gravel driveways, car park and wooden car sheds for its teachers while SK Abang Abdul Kadir has a resurfaced sports field for its school athletes.

“We are very grateful to CMS Roads for helping us with this construction work and for supplying the materials to make this dream possible,” said SK St Augustine Principal Dennis Gassan.

As SK St. Augustine is a mission school, money is scarce for repairs and infrastructure upgrading work. The school appealed to CMS Roads (Betong RMU) for help earlier in the year.

According to Shirly Ann Clarke from PPES Works, employee volunteers from CMS Roads were happy to perform this hard physical work, because it meant achieving some good for the less fortunate.

“CMS Roads was very pleased to give back to the community and we were glad to be of assistance as part of our Corporate Social Responsibility activities,” she said.

CMS Roads financed most of the materials for construction including 40 tonnes of stone as well as supplying all the equipment and machinery needed for this endeavour.

Construction and Road MaintenanceSBU donates to fire victims of Rumah Mani Ak Panau, Pelasok, Skrang

16 April 2008 : Families of the 38-door longhouse, Rumah Mani ak Panau, in Pelasok, Skrang (20 km from Betong), received donations amounting to RM3,547.50 from the companies and staff of PPES Works (Sarawak) Sdn Bhd, CMS Roads Sdn Bhd and CMS Pavement Tech Sdn Bhd.

The longhouse was razed by fire on 9 April 2008 leaving more than 100 occupants homeless. Donations comprised food rations of rice, cooking oil, sugar, coffee, milk, instant noodles, canned foods, as well as used clothing.

General Manager of CMS Roads, Encik Bilin Dandi handed over the donation to the longhouse chief at a brief ceremony held on 16 April 2008. CMS staff from Kuching, Sri Aman, Betong and Saratok Road Maintenance Units witnessed the hand-over.

The crews from the various RMUs will also be mobilised during the weekends to help clear the debris at the site, which will make way for the reconstruction of the longhouse.

Bringing cheer to 'Back to School'

As part of their ‘adoption' of Kampung Sinar Baru, the team at Construction & Road Maintenance SBU took it upon themselves to make the on-coming ‘back to school' season a little special this time.

On 19 December 2007, eleven volunteers from PPES Works and CMS Roads, with a little help from Centre Management trekked up to the kampong, 14 km from Kuching, to hand-over school books, stationary, and food to 88 school-going children.

Needless to say, there were plenty of smiles all round – from grateful children and parents of the Kampung Sinar Baru community, to the satisfied CMS volunteers.

In all, the supplies costs RM1,727.67 which was bought using employee contributions to Construction & Road Maintenance SBU's very own Employees' Charitable Donations Fund.

Kampung Sinar Baru began as a settlement village for ex-leprosy patients. Whilst many of the older generation have been cured, disfigurement of limbs has led to a social stigma of giving up on life amongst a number of the residents. Many children of the kampong do not go to school. Many others stop formal education after just a few years.

Having engaged with the Kampung Sinar Baru community numerous times throughout the year, the Construction & Road Maintenance team made it their mission to help raise the community residents' confidence levels and motivation to improve their lives. Whilst this journey is bound to be long and difficult, Construction & Road Maintenance SBU knows full well whatever effort they put in to “Do Good” for Kampung Sinar Baru will be worthwhile.

Sending Fast Relief to Fire Victims

9 November 2007, Sri Aman: Even in times of crisis, the employees of PPES Works, CMS Roads and CMS Pavement Tech keep a strong commitment to mobilise fast, effective help to the needy in rural areas.

Yesterday PPES Works, CMS Roads and CMS Pavement Tech sent food and provisions yesterday to 24 men, women and children in Sri Aman whose homes were ravaged by a recent fire.

The families lost their houses and everything they owned when the fire broke out at Kampung Hulu Melayu, Sri Aman on 2 October 2007.

“Employees of the 3 companies had initiated a staff collection and reached deep into their own pockets to help the four families affected. We are proud of our staff's community spirit and willingness to help the needy,” said CMS Roads' General Manager, Bilin Dandi.

A brief ceremony was held on 8 Nov 2007 at CMS Roads' office in Sri Aman to hand over the donation comprising RM650 worth of foodstuff such as rice, cooking oil, sugar, canned food, coffee, cordial drinks and more.

Present were CMS Roads' General Manager, Bilin Dandi, Deputy General Manager, Dahlim Mungkil & staff from Sri Aman, Betong and Kuching.

The handover was witnessed by Sri Aman SAO, Encik Zaidi Serkawi, Penghulu, Tn Haji Abdul Samat bin Haji Abdul Rahim and Ketua Kampung, Tn Haji Abdul Latif bin Haji Abdul Rahim.

CMS ROADS LEND A HAND TO RURAL SCHOOLS

Friday, 14 September 2007, SARATOK: Employees of CMS Roads in Saratok are continuing to make helping others one of their top priorities, as once again they come to the aid of more rural folk in need.

This time ‘round, the beneficiary was SK Babang, a rural primary school situated on Babang Road. The school needed a 50-foot long, six-foot wide concrete footpath, to connect the school grounds to an existing footpath that runs along the neighbouring Sungai Krain.

After appealing to CMS Roads for help, on 1 September, 2007, a team of 35 crew and staff arrived to answer the school's call for help.

This was the Saratok Road Maintenance Unit's second activity to “Do Good” under the CMS Community Outreach programme in two weeks, following a recent road works and painting job done for Kaki Wong community hall, also in Saratok.

Operation Executive Wong Chee Sen said that although staff were happy to put in the labour, the school provided the building materials amounting to 12 bags of cement, 6 tonnes of mixed gravel, and swam timber.

CMS Roads has done some outstanding work for rural communities this year, both in activities undertaken with PPES Works and CMS Pavement Tech, and through their own stand-alone activities.

These include Gotong Royongs for kampungs and community buildings in Limbang, Mukah, Padawan Kuching and Bekenu.

With their CMS Community Outreach goals firmly in mind, PPES Works, CMS Roads and CMS Pavement Tech are truly “walking the walk” of employee volunteerism and using teamwork to turn their pledge to help rural communities into reality in 2007.

Collectively, the team at the Works group have identified worthy causes and means to help. Forming committees; raised funds, and donated money – several times over - to their adopted cause, Kampung Sinar Baru, in Padawan. The Kampung is home to the families of recovered leprosy.

In “ Doing Good for the Community ,” PPES Works made a comprehensive study of the critical needs of the Kampung and developed an action plan to help the community. For Kampung Sinar Baru and other rural communities, many more future events are in store.

The Construction & Road Maintenance Strategic Business Unit (SBU) is comprised of PPES Works ( Sarawak ) Sdn Bhd, CMS Roads Sdn Bhd and CMS Pavement Tech Sdn Bhd.

Saturday, 18 August 2007 , Kuching – It might have been the start of the school holidays, but employee volunteers from PPES Works, CMS Roads and CMS Pavement Tech put family obligations aside for awhile, preferring instead to focus their Saturday morning to “Do Good” at the ex-leprosy resettlement village, Kampung Sinar Baru, located some 14 km from Kuching city.

Starting from 8am into early afternoon, over 200 employees under CMS' Construction & Road Maintenance SBU joined forces with village folk to clean up Kampung Sinar Baru and give it a face-lift. According to Ketua Kampung, Puan Selia, it was the first village clean-up to be organized in 20 years!

The early morning sight was truly amazing – one dozen CMS trucks and numerous vehicles parked alongside the main road into the kampung, hundreds of employees everywhere wearing CMS uniforms or t-shirts and caps with the distinctive CMS logo and armed with grass-cutting equipment, “parang”, sickles and bin bags, and lots of “Doing Good”, CMS Community Outreach spirit.

After a warm-up of Pocho-pocho dance, each team sped off to their designated zones to clean-up and help with repairs to broken culverts and blocked drains. Everyone had a part to play. Even those not involved in the clean up were responsible for feeding hungry and thirsty team members.

The clean-up or “Gotong-Royong” at Kampung Sinar Baru is part of a series of activities by the Construction & Road Maintenance SBU under its kampung-adoption programme.

Kampung Sinar Baru was presented with a new signage to replace its previous dilapidated wooden sign. PPES Works Executive Director, Robert Gardner, put on the finishing touches to the new sign featuring yellow rays of sun or “cahya” with the Ketua Kampung, Puan Selia, and Padawan Member of Parliament for Stampin, Datuk Yong Khoon Seng.