Annual Report 2019

ANNUAL REPORT 2019 89 ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND GOVERNANCE REPORT Employee Volunteering We support local communities and address their needs through employee volunteering. During FY2019, our employees volunteered in a range of community activities. Build a community with care and love – caring visits to the elderly Many of the elderly have little contact with the outside world. Social interactions bring joy and love to the elderly. During FY2019, our employees of Dorsett Wanchai, Cosmo Hotel and Dorsett Mongkok, Silka Far East, Silka Seaview and Silka Tsuen Wan in Hong Kong, as well as Dorsett Grand Chengdu in Mainland China volunteered in visiting elderly residents in their private homes or care homes. Our volunteers chatted and had party with the elderly, and delivered daily necessities to them. Build a community with care and love – preparing food for people in need While a large amount of edible surplus food is being disposed of as waste, there are people do not have access to sufficient food. To help relieve food waste and hunger problems, in the office at Melbourne, we participated the corporate volunteering programme at FareShare which rescues edible surplus food items, and prepare them as nutritious meals for people in need. Our employees helped prepare meals in FareShare’s kitchen which were distributed to charities such as homeless shelters, women’s refuges and community food banks etc.