As an international corporate citizen, Singapore Airlines recognizes the importance of contributing to the communities it serves. Through corporate donations, sponsorships and other forms of support, Singapore Airlines provides backing to a wide range of local and overseas community groups and charity organizations such as the Community Chest of Singapore.
The
Community Chest of Singapore was founded in 1983 to tap the generosity of individuals, companies and institutions to fund voluntary welfare programmes intended to help disadvantaged people in Singapore.
In 1987, the Airline helped set up Singapore's first kidney dialysis centre, with a donation of S$233,000 to the
National Kidney Foundation. The National Kidney Foundation is a major voluntary health organization, seeking to prevent kidney and urinary tract diseases, improve the health and well being of individuals and families affected by these diseases, and increase the availability of all organs for transplantation.
As part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, the Airline contributed S$4 million to the
Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (MINDS), to help fund the construction of a new headquarters and sheltered workshop which provides employment for up to 400 intellectually disabled members. The facility was completed in 2000, and officially opened by the President of Singapore, Mr S R Nathan.
The Cabin Crew Club for Community Care or 5Cs, founded in May 2001, annually organizes various activities and outings for residents of the Asian Women's Welfare Association (AWWA) Community Home and students of Chao Yang Special School on a regular basis. Made up of volunteers from our cabin crew and ground staff, the club initiated a six-month programme to feed as well as to improve the learning and teaching conditions in two schools in Bohol in the Philippines in June 2005.
In October 2007, Singapore Airlines conducted an unprecedented charity auction by inviting travellers across the globe to bid for a chance to be the first to experience the A380 on a flight from Singapore to Sydney and back. Over S$1.9 million was raised and split three ways between Singapore’s Community Chest, the Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders and a third between the Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, and The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, both in Sydney.
Singapore Airlines participated in Community Chest's 25th Anniversary by supporting their special events such as the Heartstrings Walk in 2008.
Today, the Airline continues to contribute to charities, community development programmes, philanthropic and promotional events aimed at supporting those causes, both locally as well as abroad.
