MIRI – Apparently After School Project Miri mentoring opportunities attracts not only the working professionals but also the University students. Curtin Rotaract Club recruited ten (10) passionate mentors from Curtin University Sarawak are doing more than earning their college degrees. They are sharing their knowledge and experiences with children  from foster homes Kompleks Kebajikan Hamidah Yakup Miri as part of Mentoring programme The After School Project Miri. Read More Here

MIRI – The After School Project will held a training session this coming Friday for its current mentors and also for any adult interested in becoming a mentor.

The training session will be held from 6.30 pm to 8 pm on May 10  at Miri Waterfront Commercial Centre– 5th Floor, Wisma Interhill (brown marbled building right behind Maybank / next to Sarawak Plantation building).

“It is our (Interhill) full time commitment to ensure the mentors are given on-going support and training; this is important to ensure sustainability of this project ” said Corporate Communications Manager, Agnes Nyelang reasserting Interhill Employee Club Miri (organiser) commitment to provide information, training, and assistance to aid mentor in meeting their responsibilities, to provide academic volunteer mentoring to the children assigned and to mentor at the location where they are placed. Read More Here

Left to Right: Tenya Thomas (Overall winner), and top 5 best photos Chong Meiyi, Lonnie Wong, See Ho Jiamin & Ali Daud

The prize for best overall photo was awarded to Sales Coordinator of Unique Harvests Sdn Bhd, Tenya Thomas for her photo, “Earth is Our best legacy for our future generation” Miri, depicting a group of children swimming in a river. Photo “Peaceful Earth” Batang Ai, portraying a peaceful overlook of the Batang Ai river by Jasmani Mohamad Tahar of Pullman Kuching.

“Celebrating Earth Day by having a photo contest is just one of Interhill 365 Green Days activities which means that we are not appreciating and caring for earth only for a day but instead we do it every single day. In this particular event,  what better way to capture all earth’s beauty than with a photograph?” said Corporate Communications Manager, Agnes Nyelang asserting Interhill keenest to raise environmental awareness amongst the employees and stakeholders.

Interhill 365 Green Days is a first ever green mission provides variation of environmental friendly efforts of the many areas Interhill focus upon as a company to help minimise Interhill’s impact on the environment, as well as how they give back to the local global communities. For further information on Interhill Group commitment to corporate responsibility and sustainability visit www.interhill.com.my

For information, please contact:
Agnes Nyelang
Corporate Communications Manager
CSR Division
Interhill Group of Companies
www.interhill.com.my
T. 685 412318
F. 685 437318
E. agnes.nyelang@interhill.com.my

RULES

1. Open to current Interhill Group employees only (including Pullman Kuching)

2. Photo is only to be produced individually.

3. Photo MUST have a sustainability message and a reference to Sarawak community.

4. Photograph entries must be the original work of the entrant.

5. All devices, including smart phones, may be used.

6. Each email submission must include the title, location of the work, and the full name of the photographer.

7. Judging will be based on  on creativity, compliance with the theme, originality and overall quality of the image.

8. Retouching of Photos:The submitted contest photograph cannot be significantly retouched: nothing in the photographs (people, animals, scenery, objects, etc.) may be altered, removed, augmented or rearranged. Cropping is permitted,as is modest darkening or lightening of parts of the image.

9. By submitting photographs to the contest via email, entrants agree to grant the Company permission to print and display photographs. All photographs will be credited to the photographer.

The contest organizers reserve the right to disqualify entries that do not conform to the stated rules and guidelines. By participating in the contest, the entrant agrees to be bound by these Official Rules, and it is the entrant’s responsibility to ensure that s/he has complied. The determination of the winners will be final and binding in all matters relating to this contest.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is fundamental to INTERHILL’s culture and core values. It reflects the corporate and environmental sustainability commitments we make to our clients, shareholders, business partners, employees and our communities. These commitments enable us to perform with the highest standards of good governance and ethics; provide products and services that meet the rising expectations of our clients and business partners; attract and retain quality employees; provide meaningful support in our communities and improve the social and environmental impacts of our business practices.

The three key areas of CSR at INTERHILL comprise of Education, Women Empowerment and Environment.

Education

At Interhill, we believe that education is the fundamental foundation of each individual.

Therefore, we start by nurturing and providing a strong foundation for our young generation. Emphasizing on our younger generation and shaping our future leaders, we look to ultimately contribute to the betterment of our community and country.

Education provides a better quality of life.

We at Interhill also believe in the value of education as one of the chief catalysts for poverty eradication. The role of education in poverty eradication, in close co-operation with other social sectors, cannot be overemphasized. No country has succeeded where its people has not been educated. It is through education where most poor communities successfully break the cycle of poverty.

Holding true to this belief, and with the wonderful support of non-governmental organisations and volunteers, Interhill embraces the following objectives:

• To provide aid and assistance to students and other members of the community seeking to advance their current level of education onto a higher platform;
• To create awareness and to promote recognition on the importance and advantages of education amongst the communities;
• To research into and subsequently target pockets of the community whom are at a highly disadvantaged level economically, and to create programs and initiatives to encourage the pursuit of education within these pockets;
• To support the creation, development and establishment of facilities and structures related to the advancement of education;
• To advocate and endorse the development of a clean, safe and decent environment for the process of learning.

Visit our official Interhill Education Initiative website at www.interhill-education-initiative.com and our mentoring project at www.after-schoolproject.com

Women

We believe in women’s empowerment for social change.

INTERHILL seeks to educate and create awareness amongst women of their rights,freedom and entitlement as women in a community. We seek to focus on notions of self-worth and dignity, solidarity among women and bodily integrity, as well as creating awareness against gender based violence.

Our three key areas in stepping up our women empowerment efforts:

Educational Empowerment: About two thirds of the illiterate adults in the world are female. Interhill aims to educate and empower women through education. Education can guarantee higher levels of education and economic opportunity for the children through education awareness and in understanding its importance.

Economic Empowerment: Around the world, a disproportionately large number of women live in poverty. Economic disproportions continue partially because most of the unpaid work within families and communities falls on the shoulders of women who also face discrimination in the community and economic sphere. Interhill aims to provide support in a women’s economic strength through continuous awareness in various mediums like workshops and seminars.

Women’s well-being: In Malaysia, women are usually in charge of securing water, food and overseeing her family’s health and diet. Interhill believes that continuous educational awareness towards health and well-being will eradicate serious health issues faced by individual children and families.

Visit our official Interhill Women Empowerment Programme atwww.interhillforwomen.com

Environment

Interhill is addressing global concerns for the environment by designing business practices that provide the ability to minimise our impact on the environment. Interhill is committed to adopting environmentally responsible policies in its operations wherever it operates.

We adopt an environmental policy that is designed to achieve the following objectives:

• To invest in the research, development and improvement of new business practices, products and applications to enable us to meet or exceed our environmental aspirations;
• To implement best environmental practices in all of our activities;
• To manage our resources to minimise raw material usage, dispose correctly of waste, reduce harmful emissions, and promote energy conservation and recycling;
• To raise environmental awareness amongst our employees and stakeholders to enable them to carry out their work or businesses with due consideration for the environment;
• To adopt a 3R environmental policy that is designed to achieve the following objectives:

Reduce – Interhill emphasises on waste reduction by using natural resources sensibly in order circumvent waste.

Reuse – Interhill focuses on reusing and fully utilising materials in their original form in helping the environment and decreasing waste quantity.

Recycle – Interhill brings stakeholders together with recycling efforts by managing resources to promote energy conservation and recycling

Celebrating Easter with Camp Kabing

Celebrating Easter with Camp Kabing

Mass services lead by Pastor Usek Laing and hosted by the respective community are upbeat as always as the parishioners sang, prayed and welcome each other to begin what many Christians around the world believe is the holiest week of the year. Every Mass Service in each village took around one hour and ended with light refreshments provided by Interhill, allowing all worshippers the opportunity to socialize with each other.

In recognizing the high value that local communities place on spiritual support, Interhill had planned, coordinated and organized the Good Friday Mass Service, with all transportation and costs covered by Interhill. We at Interhill are very grateful to have the wonderful opportunity to share and celebrate this important day with the local communities.

Lights out for Earth Hour at Interhill

Interhill joined the millions of people in 152 countries supporting Earth Hour by switching off non essential lights of Wisma Interhill Miri.

Interhill Corporate Communications Manager , Agnes Nyelang believes that Earth Hour campaign will create a great  impact for the environment and at the same time encouraging others to do fun activities include having a candlelight dinner, not doing laundry and taking a walk in the neighbourhood.

“We want to make this as part of our traditional practices and it definitely is in line with our effort for the environment by designing business practices that provide customers with the ability to minimise their impact on the environment” said Agnes, mentioning on Interhill’s previous environmental awareness effort.

Within a day, Interhill has estimated saving a minimum of 330,000 watts overall electric reduction from Wisma Interhill Waterfront Commercial Centre Miri, and will continue to develop similar effort into business practices which encourage stakeholders to save on their carbon foot print.

Interhill also encourage employees and tenants to participate in Earth Hour at both work and home, by switching off lights and all non-essential electrical items, such as television, air conditioning, photocopiers and printers, not only for one hour but instead, throughout the day.

For further information on Interhill Group commitment to corporate responsibility and sustainability visit www.interhill.com.my

Interhill works together with the Sarawak Tipun Penan Development Association (PETIPUN) to realise not only the hopes and dreams of the younger generation, but also to provide continuing support to the development of Penan communities, with a vision to safeguard the future of the Penan communities through continuing education and learning.

Previous years, a grand total of forty (40) selected Penan students are being awarded scholarships and financial aids under the Interhill-PETIPUN Scholarship/Grant… click here to read the rest of the post

Interhill Senior Chief Mechanic, Wong Hai Seng handing out sweet treats to happy children in Kabing Camp

Children singing for Interhill staffs after getting christmas sweet treats

It was 8am, in December, Interhill colleagues went through the heat, rain, bumpy road and slippery slopes but it is all worth it to see smiles and gratitude of the villagers’ face. The event was yet another occasion to strengthen the existing ties and show that the welfare of rural communities has priority on Interhill’s social responsibility lists.

“We are blessed and grateful for 2012, this is another occasion to show our gratitude and share joy of Christmas and New Year through corporate social responsibilities activities” said Corporate Communications Manager, Agnes Nyelang, “Interhill wants to provide some concrete help to those in need is a great gesture of generosity and solidarity.”

Yearly Christmas gifts and goodies are delivered by Interhill to the communities in support of their Christmas and New Year expenses, such as for food, drinks and ornaments for decoration in village churches.

It is 8am, in December, Interhill colleagues went through the heat, rain, bumpy road and slippery slopes but it is all worth it to see smiles and gratitude of the villagers’ face. The event was yet another occasion to strengthen the existing ties and show that the welfare of rural communities has priority on Interhill’s social responsibility lists.“We are blessed and grateful for 2012, this is another occasion to show our gratitude and share joy of Christmas and New Year through corporate social responsibilities activities” said Corporate Communications Manager, Agnes Nyelang, “Interhill wants to provide some concrete help to those in need is a great gesture of generosity and solidarity.”Yearly Christmas gifts and goodies are delivered by Interhill to the communities in support of their Christmas and New Year expenses, such as for food, drinks and ornaments for decoration in village churches.Transportation is also provided to the communities to bring them back and forth from their homes to the nearby towns such as Long Bedian, Long Lama and Marudi for their ease in their Christmas shopping. Hence, great convenience was brought in shortening their two-day journey to a mere two-hour trip.Transportation is also provided to the communities to bring them back and forth from their homes to the nearby towns such as Long Bedian, Long Lama and Marudi for their ease in their Christmas shopping. Hence, great convenience was brought in shortening their two-day journey to a mere two-hour trip.

Contact Us:

Agnes Nyelang

Corporate Communications Manager
CSR Division
Interhill Group of Companies
www.interhill.com.my
T. 685 412 318
F. 685 437 318
E. agnes.nyelang@interhill.com.my

Head Village of Long Kawi, Satok Lawai shakes hand with Interhill Camp Manager, Ting Tiing Hie as he receives 170 bags of cement and a new generator set

Long Kawi, Ulu Baram Miri – Interhill gives RM8, 000 worth 170 bags of cement and a new generator set to Long Kawi of Ulu Baram, as part of its ongoing Joint-Community for Better Homes Project. “We need more housing materials as we are now building more houses with better quality to fulfil our growing population” said Head village of Long Kawi, Satok Lawai when he receive the new batch of cements and a new generator set. Interhill has also provided Long Kawi with a brand new generator set. The new generator set, received by Satok Lawai from Interhill Camp Manager, Ting Tiing Hie at Long Kawi, would now supplement the existing generator set, doubling the current electricity supply capacity for the entire village. The joint community project is dedicated to build better homes for families of local communities, not only to Long Kawi, but also to the various villages in Upper Baram. Interhill’s contribution of building materials and mobilising heavy-duty for excavation along with manpower providence has been ongoing for the last decade. “This surely would not be Interhill’s final contributions, be rest assured that the contributions will continue, not only limited to Long Kawi but also to other villages surrounding our timber harvesting area” expressed Corporate communications manager of Interhill Group, Agnes Nyelang. Interhill believes that in order to decrease poverty, the supply of decent housing and electricity is equally essential. Adequate housing is vitally important to the health of a community, yet the percentage of people without access to decent housing is rising globally.

For information, please contact:

Agnes Nyelang

Corporate Communications Manager
CSR Division
Interhill Group of Companies
www.interhill.com.my
T. 685 412 318
F. 685 437 318
E. agnes.nyelang@interhill.com.my