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A VISION COMMITMENT EMPOWERING ENSuRINg ENHANCING FINANCIAL
TO SERVE TO LEAD GROWTH SuSTAINABILITY GOVERNANCE STATEMENTS 49
Community
EXIM is committed
to investing our
time, expertise and
resources to make a
sustainable difference
through meaningful
projects, financial EXIM Bank Malaysia, together with Global
Peace Foundation, is giving access to clean
aid and material water to the Jakun Orang Asli settlement
contributions. in Kampung Patah Pisau, Muadzam Shah in
Pahang.
EXIM Bank began collaborating with GPFM, an NGO focused on uplifting Orang
ORANg ASLI Asli communities, in 2021 for a socially responsible project dubbed “The All-Lights
Village”. Through this initiative, the Bank provided solar energy lights that benefited
WATER PROJECT four Orang Asli (OA) villages, which consist of 45 households, or 150 villagers.
This CSR project brought various benefits to the OA community. Their energy
Objectives expenditure was reduced as they no longer needed to buy expensive and
• To uplift the quality of the unsustainable energy sources; health and environmental impact improved as
hazardous bonfires were no longer needed at night; and the community’s productivity
Orang Asli lives by providing and livelihood were enhanced once they had electricity to continue working and
clean water access. studying through the evening and night.
In 2022, the Bank worked with GPFM to address another critical challenge
faced by the OA community – the lack of easy access to safe and clean water.
• To continue the Bank’s
Having unreliable and inadequate water source and storage are some of the
community-conscious challenges faced by the Jakun community of Pahang. Knowing that the health and
resilience of a community can only be fully realised with access to clean water,
project by collaborating with
sanitation and hygiene facilities, GPFM launched several water related projects for
Global Peace Foundation two villages - Kg. Teraling and Kg. Patah Pisau located in Rompin district, Pahang –
where the need for better access to water was dire. For example, the orang asli of
Malaysia (GPFM), an NGO Kampung Padang relied on water from a self-dug well for drinking, cooking,
and washing. The well is located half a kilometre away and it takes 15 minutes to
championing the Orang Asli
walk there through an overgrown path. Walking back with their load of water,
community since 2014. however, is a daunting chore, especially for the women tasked with fetching water.
This 30-minute journey to the well and back while being weighed down by several
gallons of water happens a few times a day, and is the painful reality for the people
here who have no choice or are powerless to change their situation. As a result,
the communities kept usage of water to a minimum, which impacted their health and
hygiene standards.
The Bank contributed to “The Water” project which was designed to bring manifold
benefits to the OA community by implementing rainwater harvesting systems as a
secondary source of water supply for their homes and farms. This alternative water
source for their daily use sustainably boosts the community’s health, hygiene and
food security.
