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Sands Cares Ambassadors Helping Clean and Sanitise Special Education Schools

Part of company’s cleaning initiative for local schools and ongoing COVID-19 relief effort


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Macao, May 14, 2020) – A group of Sands Cares Ambassadors helped clean and sanitise Concordia School of Special Education Saturday, as part of Sands China’s cleaning initiative for local schools and its ongoing COVID-19 relief effort for the Macao community.


Sands China and the Macao Autism Association jointly organised a school-cleaning initiative that aims to provide a clean learning environment for children with special needs, in line with the government’s guideline to provide a child-friendly policy for special education schools. Concordia is the first school to benefit from this cleaning service initiative by Sands China Ltd., which will continue over the next several weeks, with a goal to benefit a total of 1,500 teachers and students through the support of 200 Sands Cares Ambassadors – in addition to a target to donate 20,000 children’s facemasks.


“Sands China is very pleased to be able to offer our team member volunteers’ cleaning services and our donation of masks for local schools,” said Dr. Wilfred Wong, president of Sands China Ltd. “With Macao being a tightknit community, it is important that we look out for one another, especially during challenging times like the coronavirus pandemic. Our thanks go to the Macao Autism Association for their support, and to our Sands Cares Ambassadors for continuing to demonstrate the best of Sands China’s core values in their service to the Macao community.”


Even though classes are still on hold, the Macao Education and Youth Affairs Bureau has advised that schools should continue providing “friendly services” for students with special education needs.


With many parents of special needs children finding it hard to take care of their children at home during this lockdown period, many of them choose to continue taking their children to school, where there are spaces for them to play games and interact with their teachers, who help look after them and meet their unique needs.


To date, Sands China’s COVID-19 relief efforts for the Macao community have included donations of nearly 600,000 items of sanitising equipment, financial support for 500 underprivileged families and cash donations to 34 local elderly and drug rehabilitation centres.


Sands China’s cleaning service and mask donation initiative for local schools is part of the company’s on-going COVID-19 relief effort for the Macao community, and is part of Sands Cares, the global corporate citizenship program of parent company Las Vegas Sands Corp.




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Sands Cares Ambassadors clean and sanitise classrooms at Concordia School of Special Education Saturday, as part of Sands China’s cleaning initiative for local schools and its ongoing COVID-19 relief effort for the Macao community.



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Sands Cares Ambassadors deliver a donation from Sands China of various sanitising supplies and child-sized medical masks Saturday for the use of Concordia’s special needs students.