The amount includes $3.2 million committed for Covid-19 relief efforts in India. In its latest round of aid this month, the donation will be used to procure more than 1,200 emergency medical supplies. The funds will also be used to set up a temporary Covid Care centre at Capitaland’s International Tech Park Bangalore, which will provide healthcare support to employees, tenants and the neighbouring Bangalore Whitefield community.
CapitaLand will also support the installation and maintenance of an oxygen-generating plant at Stanley Government Hospital in Chennai, while its wholly owned lodging business unit, The Ascott, will also provide oxygen concentrators to the Covid-19 facility at King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research in Chennai.
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Jonathan Yap, president, CapitaLand Financial, says that it is important for the group to stand in solidarity with India during this difficult time. “This unprecedented global crisis calls for unprecedented unity. We are doing everything we can to take care of our employees in India and stepping up our help to address critical needs across the nation,” he says.
CapitaLand’s Covid-19-related aid for India to date includes the dispatch of face masks, hand sanitisers and other equipment to frontline workers; donations of an ambulance each to the Health Departments of Chennai and Hyderabad, and the distribution of smart tablets to low-income families to aid online lessons home.
In March, CapitaLand donated N95 masks and PPE to Sri Shankara Cancer Foundation in Bangalore as well as distributed rations and safety care kits to the elderly and homeless at a shelter run by The Earth Saviours Foundation in Gurgaon. In April, CapitaLand conducted two vaccination drives in International Tech Park Bangalore and International Tech Park Chennai, Taramani for its support staff, employees and their family members.
