Amidst the rising COVID-19 cases in January, several areas in the east coast were hit by torrential monsoon rains, causing severe flash floods that were touted as the worst flooding in the past 50 years. Noticing how badly the east coast areas were affected, Sunway swiftly brought together their hotels, shopping malls, pharmacies, and more under the #SunwayForGood intiative to provide several non-governmental organisations in in the east coast with aid worth over RM100,000.
Additionally, upon hearing news about the flood disaster in Klang and Shah Alam on 18 December, Sunway Putra Hotel and Sunway Pyramid immediately provided flood assistance together with Malaysia Red Crescent and Selangor Youth Community. Sunway Putra Hotel packed and delivered 200 meals to Taman Kemuning Utama, Shah Alam by 9.30pm, while Sunway Pyramid provided 450 meals to victims in Batu Tiga, Shah Alam by 11pm.
Over the next few days, Sunway continuously worked with many corporations to provide aid to flood victims throughout Klang Valley.
Here are some of the things they have done so far:
– Sunway Medical’s Telemedicine Command Centre assigned medical personnel to victims’ homes to provide nursing assistance and give out 2,000 bottles of hand sanitiser
– Sunway Medical arranged for an ambulance to pick up and send a bedridden elderly stranded at SK Seri Muda to PPUM
– Sunway Medical Centre sent medical personnel to conduct COVID-19 swab tests for 1,000 flood victims
– Sunway Pyramid, MarryBrown, SUPER Coffee, Nestl? Malaysia, and FFM Berhad donated food items to victims. This included 500 burgers to frontliners, 4,000 Massimo buns, 2,400 units of Marina Sardine, 2,400 units of Marina Tuna 185g, 200 cartons of MILO, and more.
– Sunway Pyramid also delivered 200 packed meals to victims in Batu Tiga, Shah Alam, and another 200 in Banting
– Sunway Pharma donated 500 standard testing kits and 70 boxes of face masks
– Sunway Putra Hotel also prepared 900 packs of nasi goreng for those stranded in Shah Alam and Bukit Changgang
– Sunway Lagoon provided 1,200 towels, t-shirts, and umbrellas, on top of 400 packed lunches for frontliners and flood victims
– Sunway University opened The Waterfront Residence to staff, students, and families affected by the flood
– Together with their volunteers, Sunway Lost World of Tambun and Sunway City Ipoh Property headed to Teluk Intan to donate cleaning tools such as water hoses, brushes, and brooms, and also assisted to clean 30 homes that were ravaged by the flood
– Working with MRC, Sunway sent cleaning items to Mentakab, Pahang in January 2022
– Sunway also sent essential hygiene products and groceries to evacuation centres in Johor