Feb 2010 - Collection of Clothes/Shoes for Philippines Payatas Dumpsite families
The New Year is a time for reconciliation and reunion, and an opportunity to wish our friends and family peace and happiness. In 2010, HSR held a collection drive at My HSR Building from 1st February to 10th February to collect items for shipment to the poor and needy shanty villagers in Payatas.
Tucked away in a silent, struggling corner of the Philippines isthe Payatas Dumpsite, a behemoth seventy feet in height, the dailyrepository for 2,000 tons of Metro Manila’s garbage, and neighbour toits surrounding circumference village of 3500 families, most of whomeke out a living scavenging at the dumpsite for items that can be soldas recyclables.
It came to the attention of the world when in July 2000, followingheavy typhoon-induced rains, the unstable mountain of garbage crashedatop some of the surrounding scavenging families and their homes. After the incident, 219 bodies were recovered, but no one knows how many remain entombed in the garbage.
April 2011- Helping Japan's Disaster Relief Efforts
After disaster struck Japan, our CEO Patrick Liew immediately galvanised the company to raise funds for Japan's disaster relief efforts. Through our outreach to the community in Flag Day Donation collections, as well as charity auctions to investors who attend property investment talks, and our own collections from our agents, HSR managed to collect more than $80,000 towards helping Japan (100% of the collection went direct to Mercy Relief and Red Cross).
