Children are the future pillars of our society and they should be given the opportunity to reach their maximum potential, regardless of their family backgrounds or learning difficulties. It is with this belief in mind that Tuas Power has partnered two charity organisations - Student Care Service (Clementi) and Katong School – to help their young beneficiaries overcome their difficulties and maximise their potential. Besides providing financial assistance, the Company also organises outings that allow our staff to interact with the children under the charge of the two charities. To encourage staff volunteerism, a voluntary committee comprising staff from different departments was formed within the Company to plan and organise volunteering activities with our partner charities. In appreciation of its contributions to the two charity organisations, Tuas Power received a Bronze Award from ComChest in November 2010.

Other than supporting Student Care Service (Clementi) and Katong School, Tuas Power also makes donations to numerous other charity causes on an ad-hoc basis. In particular, in 2010 the Company made monetary contributions to two selected schools in which the children of some of its staff are studying. The donations went toward helping needy students (under the Financial Assistance Scheme administered by the schools) to purchase school essentials such as uniforms and textbooks.

Tuas Power endorses the SHARE programme, a fund-raising programme of ComChest. Employees are encouraged to sign up for the programme, under which a monthly contribution to ComChest is deducted from the individual employee’s monthly salary.

Each year, Tuas Power would hold an internal auction of items that were received from its corporate partners. All proceeds collected from the auction were then channelled towards a selected charity organisation. This is to encourage staff to donate generously to charity causes. In 2010, the auction proceeds went towards helping Mainly I Love Kids (MILK), a charity organisation that reaches out to disadvantaged children and youths.

Tuas Power organised its own dollar-for-dollar donation drives to lend financial aid to victims of international calamities in 2008. Collectively, our staff generously donated a sum of S$15, 295.00. With the Company matching a dollar for a dollar of staff donation, the total amount came up to S$30, 590.00, half of which was donated to victims of the Sichuan Earthquake and the other half to victims of the Myanmar Cyclone.