Sands China Lends
Support to Macau Holy House of Mercy’s
Welfare Shop for Eighth Consecutive
Year
Donation helps provide food hampers
(Macao,
March
6, 2020) –
Sands China Ltd. donated
MOP 300,000 for Macau Holy House of Mercy’s
Welfare Shop March 3, to support the
distribution of over 360 food hampers to
disadvantaged families. It is the company’s
eighth straight year supporting the shop’s
food hamper
distribution.
The hampers contain
staple items like rice, noodles, biscuits,
canned food, cooking oil, toothpaste, shower
gel and
others.
Since 2013, the
Welfare Shop has been distributing food and
essentials each month to help families with
financial difficulties. To date, the service
has helped provide relief from rising living
costs to several thousand households from
disadvantaged
neighbourhoods.
Sands China has been
a major sponsor of the programme since 2013,
and has donated MOP 2.3 million to date,
including this year’s donation of MOP
300,000.
The company had
originally planned to send a group of its
Sands Cares Ambassadors to help distribute
the hampers in February as it does each
year. But in view of the spread of the novel
coronavirus, Sands China cancelled the visit
in compliance with the Macao’s government’s
appeal to avoid gathering in large groups,
with the Welfare Shop making special
arrangements to distribute the food hampers
accordingly.
“Each year, Sands
China considers it our privilege and
responsibility to show goodwill to the
community, including by supporting
low-income families through this annual
volunteer activity with Macau Holy House of
Mercy’s Welfare Shop,” said Dr. Wilfred
Wong, president of Sands China Ltd. “And
even though the current coronavirus
situation meant that we couldn’t be as
hands-on as we always like to be, we are
glad to have still been able to express our
commitment to helping families in financial
need through our support of the Welfare
Shop. We hope our support can help raise the
profile of local charitable organisations
and their events, so that more people in
Macao can have the opportunity to offer a
helping
hand.”
Dr. Wong presented a
cheque for MOP 300,000 March 3 to António
José de Freitas, president of Macau Holy
House of Mercy’s General Assembly; Io Hong
Meng, president of the Supervisory Committee
of the General Union of the Neighbourhood
Associations of Macau; and Lei Chan U, vice
president of the Board of Directors of the
Macao Federation of Trade
Unions.
Sands China Ltd.
considers initiatives like its support of
Macau Holy House of Mercy’s Welfare Shop as
central to its commitment toward social
causes and community involvement. The
company’s community work is part of Sands Cares,
the global corporate citizenship programme
of parent company Las Vegas Sands
Corp.
Photo caption: Sands China
President Dr. Wilfred Wong presents a cheque for MOP 300,000
to Macau Holy House of Mercy at its Welfare Shop March 3.
Since 2013, the company has donated MOP 2.3 million to help
provide disadvantaged families with relief against the
rising cost of living.
Left to right: Lei Chan U, vice president of the Board of
Directors of the Macao Federation of Trade Unions; Dr.
Wilfred Wong, president of Sands China Ltd.; António José de
Freitas, president of Macau Holy House of Mercy’s General
Assembly; Io Hong Meng, president of the Supervisory
Committee of the General Union of the Neighbourhood
Associations of Macau.
Photo caption: A group of
Sands Cares Ambassadors joins guests of honour at the cheque
presentation ceremony at Macau Holy House of Mercy’s Welfare
Shop March 3. Sands China had originally planned to send a
group of its Ambassadors to help distribute the hampers in
February as it does each year, but, in view of the spread of
the novel coronavirus, cancelled the event in compliance
with the Macao’s government’s appeal to avoid gathering in
large groups.