WORKS GIVES KPG SINAR BARU A CLEAN UP & FACE-LIFT

Saturday, 18 August 2007, Kuching – It might have been the start of the school holidays, but the teams 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 of the 3 companies 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 brief ceremony and a warm-up of Pocho-pocho dance led by the kampong ladies, the teams were off. The kampung had been divided into zones with each team designated 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. Prior to this, the SBU had been regularly contributing to the kampung by way of organizing donation drives to bring food, clothes and books to the local folks. Future activities planned for Kampung Sinar Baru include house repairs and assisting in the construction of a community hall.

Kampung Sinar Baru was presented with a new signage by PPES Works, CMS Roads and CMS Pavement Tech 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.