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sustainability report 2014
Building with Our Community
Community investment Empowerment activities to boost children’s linguistic and
StarHub believes in empowering the less academic skills, as well as their character.
(S$million) privileged to be more independent, to rise out
of the poverty rut and to be able to contribute 30 StarHubbers took 34 children from the
to society. Dyslexia Association of Singapore (DAS) on
a StarHub-DAS Challenge around StarHub
1.4 In 2014, StarHub’s title sponsorship of SPD’s Green, giving StarHubbers and children alike
1.2 IAC Certificate in Office Skills programme an insight into the challenges that dyslexia
0.7 saw another 27 participants over two poses. The event commemorated StarHub’s
batches. To date, 38 Persons With Disabilities $160,500 donation towards DAS’ Maths
2014 2013 2012 (PWDs) altogether have gone through this Programme. These supported 100 primary
programme to learn how to operate in an school children’s specialised education
Amount disbursed from StarHub Sparks Fund office environment and 14 have found for Mathematics topics—including basic
open employment. arithmetic, fractions and geometry—which
Employee volunteerism (days) resulted in an overall improvement of up to
The StarHub Entrepreneurs with Disabilities 36% in their scores.
programme was established in 2013. In 2014,
four more bazaar events were organised, StarHub was the title sponsor of the
giving 26 PWDs an opportunity to experience StarHub-ISCOS Bursary Awards 2014.
first-hand what selling to others is like. This 18 StarHub volunteers helped out at the
gave them valuable learning opportunities on awards presentation ceremony, ushering the
their journey to become entrepreneurs. students and their guests, as well as running
educational and entertaining game stalls for
214 We renewed our Title Sponsorship of the the children. This year, 165 needy students
212 StarHub-Central CDC Nurture Programme received an award due to their successful
133 with a $240,000 donation. This was achievement of better grades.
commemorated with 52 StarHubbers and
2014 2013 2012 their children taking 136 children from low- We have outsourced some of our outbound
income families in Central CDC on a Nurturing telemarketing services to Agape Connecting
Science Stars Journey at the Singapore People Pte Ltd., a social enterprise started by
Science Centre. In 2014, about 570 children a former prison inmate to create employment
benefitted from Nurture, which uses literary opportunities for the former prisoners.
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