Company of the Year Award goes to AirAsia and AirAsia X
KUCHING: AirAsia and AirAsia X bagged the Company of the Year Award in the Airline Category at the CSR Malaysia Awards 2017.
Long-haul airline AirAsia X won for championing community projects, while AirAsia championed cancer awareness initiatives with its #AirAsiaMAKNA campaign.
Minister of Women, Family and Community Development for Malaysia Dato Seri Rohani Abdul Karim presented the awards to AirAsia’s director of government relations, Zamani Rafique at the award ceremony in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
Over the past year, AirAsia X has touched the lives of many from underprivileged communities, especially the elderly and children, by bringing them cheer during festivities while AirAsia launched the #AsiaAsiaMAKNA campaign in 2015, and has raised and donated more than RM650,000 to National Cancer Council Malaysia ( Makna) through a series of fundraising efforts.
Supported by Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development, CSR Awards Malaysia is in its second year running to celebrate outstanding corporate social responsibility ( CSR) efforts by Malaysian corporations to promote sustainable economies through helping marginalised communities, and making environmental efforts to preserve our heritage for future generations.
Published quarterly, CSR Malaysia shares the commitment of corporations in Malaysia with the community at large in their inherent role as change agent in the socio- economic transformation of Malaysia.
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