Citi Singapore employees have raised $176,749 for non-profit group Humanitarian Organisation for Migrant Economics (HOME) as part of month-long campaign Citi Supports Home.
The campaign is one of Citi’s three key initiatives in supporting COVID-19 relief programmes in Singapore.
Unable to hold physical fund-raising events, Citi Singapore staff ramped up their creative efforts, organising 12 initiatives for HOME on fund-raising website Giving.sg in May and June. These included a silent auction, a yuzu chiffon cake bake sale and a fitness class.
The funds will support migrant workers, giving them emergency cash handouts so that they can pay for necessities such as food, phone card top-ups and medicine.
Separately, Citi Singapore has committed $150,000 to the ChildAid 2020 concert organised by The Straits Times and The Business Times.
Of the amount, $75,000 goes to support disadvantaged students with daily allowances through The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund.
The other half goes to The Business Times Budding Artists Fund, which helps artistically gifted children from low-income families pursue the arts.
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Source: The Straits Times, 18 July 2020