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Tanoto Foundation commits to support sustainability through education
Foundations have their own ways of demonstrating their commitment to sustainability, which commonly closely relates to how they look at a business
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oundations have their own ways of demonstrating their commitment to sustainability, which commonly closely relates to how they look at a business.
Tanoto Foundation, with its corporate partner Asian Agri, for instance, sees the importance of empowering the community around its operational sites as part of its efforts to ensure sustainability.
Poverty alleviation through education, empowerment and enhancement has been the strategy embraced by Tanoto Foundation and mainstreamed into corporate social responsibilities programs of its corporate partners, such as Asian Agri.
Tanoto Foundation ensures that all CSR activities implemented by the partners are aligned with the poverty alleviation and delivered with quality impacts to community.
To have better impact in the plasma and independent smallholder partnership program, Tanoto Foundation implements Pelita Pendidikan, a program to improve the education quality in rural areas.
The activities include teachers' trainings and supporting the establishment of functioning school libraries. In implementing its vision, the foundation collaborates with more than 320 schools across North Sumatera, Riau and Jambi.
'A good company should not merely think about profit for itself but should also benefit the surrounding community and the country. It should be good for the community, good for the country, only then it will be good for the company,' said Belinda Tanoto, quoting the message of her father Sukanto Tanoto, founder of Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) Group.
Belinda was speaking to over a hundred elementary, junior high and senior high students in the Sayap Garuda Sholars Gathering at the Heritage House in Medan recently. The students are recipients of scholarships from the Tanoto Foundation. Since 2006, the Tanoto Foundation has awarded scholarships to more than 4,900 students from different educational levels.
Through a better education, life-changing opportunities are wide open, said Imelda Tanoto, Sukanto Tanoto's daughter, who is also a member of the Tanoto Foundation Board of Trustees.
By providing scholarships, Tanoto Foundation is also leveling playing field so that more children will have equal opportunity to get quality education and eventually will contribute to poverty alleviation, added Belinda.'Hopefully, the recipients of scholarships can benefit today and in the future, and be able to pay it forward to benefit larger community'. (Apriadi Gunawan)
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