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Section 04 Traversing Challenges
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LONG-TERM COLLABORATION

WITH NECC FOR BABY ELLY

Since 2017, EXIM Bank through urgent medical assistance due to
its environmental CSR initiatives critical injuries and the loss of her
had committed itself and worked front lower right foot from a trap laid
hand-in-hand with the National Elephant by illegal hunters. Elly was only a year
Conservation Centre (NECC), Kuala old when she was transferred to the
Gandah to help conserve elephants. In NECC in Kuala Gandah, Pahang for
2018, after a successful environmental rehabilitation. Hearing about her plight,
CSR programme held a year before in the Bank adopted Elly in 2018 and
NECC, EXIM Bank once again came contributed a custom-made prosthetic
forward in adopting a handicapped leg. The Bank had also contributed a
baby elephant named Elly, as it needed one-off new portable paddock for Elly’s
daily mobility exercise.

The wellbeing of gutsy Baby Elly and the
progress she is making are closely monitored by
EXIM Bank. She received a new prosthetic leg
last year to accommodate her growing stature.

To ensure the sustainability of our long-term environmental
effort, we continue our support of baby Elly to ensure
she grows up healthy, with access to necessary medical
treatments. Our contribution covers the annual cost of
one-year supply of milk, multivitamins and other supplements
as part of her medical treatments, as well as sponsoring the
biannual cost of adjustments to her prosthetic leg due to her
rapid growth. Elly is important to us as the elephant population
in Malaysia is rapidly declining. In Peninsular Malaysia, only
1,223 to 1,677 elephants are estimated to live in the wild
today. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature
(IUCN) has classified Asian elephants as an Endangered species.