SHANGRI-LA KUALA LUMPUR IS NOT ONLY THE BEST HOTEL IN MALAYSIA BUT ALSO POSSESSES THE BIGGEST HEART!
Its annual Christmas Charity Tree has just raised RM 107,800 as of today 27 December and the funds are still coming in!
Over the years, Shangri-La has raised over RM 3 million for worthy causes connected with children regardless of race and creed.
When it launched the Christmas Charity Tree on 10 December 2013, they managed to raise only RM 22,000 but since then, the General Manager Reto Klauser and Dato Rosemarie Wee the PR director and the staff of Shangri-La have worked indefatigably to increase the amount by a staggering over RM 80,000. In addition, Shangri-La Kuala Lumpur donated RM 4,000 cash as angpows to give to the 150 underprivileged children, proving they do what they preach! It is easier to solicit money from big companies keen to do their CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) but it is another when the organiser has to fork out cash from its own pocket!
Going a step ahead, General Manager Reto Klauser personally dug inside his pocket and donated RM 1,000 towards his Christmas Charity Tree!
Now that is what I call a sterling, shining example enough to make the angels in high heaven sing for joy.
Bravo to Shangri-La Kuala Lumpur!
WELL-WISHERS DONATE TO THE CHRISTMAS CHARITY TREE
AT SHANGRI-LA HOTEL, KUALA LUMPUR
The Christmas
Charity Tree 2013 in the Lobby of the Shangri-La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, was set
alight on December 10, by Reto Klauser, the Hotel’s Vice-President and General
Manager, in the presence of 150 disadvantaged children from Tasputra Perkim and
UNHCR, the UN agency for refugees.
The voices of
Christmas carollers filled the Lobby, and there was loud applause from the
children and others present, as the nine tiers of the Christmas Charity Tree,
each filled with beautifully-crafted sugarpieces to depict Santa’s Toy Factory
were clear for all to see. Atop the tree were five toy soldiers, to guard
Santa’s toy bounty.
The sugarpieces,
made by the hotel’s pastry artists, are for sponsorship by donors, each for a
minimum donation of RM 1,000. The donors’ names or company logos are prominently displayed against each sugarpiece.
The money donated
will go to children who are in urgent need of funds for immediate surgery and
medical care.
To date (December
27), RM107,800/- has been contributed by well-wishers to the Christmas Charity
Tree fund. This has already exceeded the
original target sum of RM100,000 set for this
annual charity
project titled “Embrace the Gift of Life” initiated by the Shangri-La
Hotel, Kuala Lumpur to aid children
suffering from severe heart ailments and loss of limbs. Since 1985 the hotel
has helped hundreds of critically ill children and raised more than RM3 million
through this Christmas Charity Tree.
This year the
Christmas Charity Tree will go to the aid of these six children:
- One-month-old Kristabelle Yogavalli Kulandai who needs a life-saving cardiac operation which costs RM45,000.
- Five-month-old Puteri Amni Haifa Hussni who suffers from a hole in the heart and needs an operation costing RM38,000.
- One-year-old Nur Qaisara Muinuddin who has a defective heart and needs two operations costing RM45,000
- Five-month-old See Seng Hong who needs an operation to close the hole in his heart. It costs RM38,000.
- One-year-old Darwisyah Saffiyah who suffers from a hole in the heart and other complications. She needs an operation that costs RM30,000.
- Eighteen-year-old Khairul Azwan Zainal Abidin who suffers from cancer of the shin bone and needs surgery that costs RM35,000.
The parents of
Kristabelle, Nur Qaisara and See Seng Hong were with their babies at the
Shangri-La Hotel Kuala Lumpur yesterday (December 10), standing beside Mr
Klauser for the lighting up of the Christmas Charity Tree.
The three children
have had their heart surgery and recovering well, due to the pledges of funds
already made to the respective hospitals by the Shangri-La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur,
even before the launching of the Christmas Charity Tree. Their operations had
been urgent and life-saving.
Yap Yoke Lan, mother of See Seng Hong, said she and her husband were
very grateful to the hotel for sponsoring the operation for her child. Yap, who
is a factory worker, and her husband See Kim Chin, a technician, were very
happy that their child is making good progress in his recovery.
Hong Kong-based Shangri-La Hotels
and Resorts currently
owns and/or manages 80 hotels under the Shangri-La brand with a room inventory
of over 34,000. Shangri-La hotels are
five-star deluxe properties featuring extensive luxury facilities and
services. Shangri-La hotels are located
in Australia , Canada , mainland China ,
Fiji , France , Hong Kong , India , Indonesia , Japan , Malaysia , Maldives , Philippines ,
Singapore , Sultanate
of Oman, Taiwan , Thailand , Turkey and the United
Arab Emirates China , India ,
Mongolia ,
Philippines , Qatar ,
Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom
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