Toll Today March 2011 - TOLL Group

Community
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Toll Global Logistics Helps to rebuild School
in West Sumatra
1 The school’s
opening ceremony
after the rebuilding
project is complete.
A
strong earthquake struck
off the coast of Indonesia’s
Sumatra Island near the city
of Padang, on 30 September 2009.
The earthquake destroyed almost
the whole area and killed thousands
of people. Large office buildings and
houses were reduced to rubble in
seconds, with the earthquake also
destroying at least two hospitals and
several schools.
In several discussions with Rolls-
Royce indonesia, management
of PT Toll Indonesia became aware of
their Corporate Social Responsibility
program. The program is managed
by Rolls-Royce’s local Indonesian
staff and identifies opportunities
to contribute to society.
In this instance, the Rolls-Royce
team identified a school that had
been completely destroyed during
the earthquake and decided to
rebuild it in a new location, as their
contribution to the local community.
Through PT Toll Indonesia’s relationship
with Rolls-Royce, Toll Global Logistics
was approached to provide a donation
to contribute to the rebuilding of the
school. Instantly realising the importance
of this to the local community and
the future of the children there, Toll
Global Logistics was only too happy
to help their partner rebuild the new
Muhammadiyah Anak Air Dadok school
Helping those in Need at Christmas
2 Thomas
Underwood and
Ewan Breakey who
worked very hard
packaging the gifts
and attaching con
notes to them.
For many Toll staff, Christmas is a time to spend with
our friends and family. However we cannot forget
those who are less fortunate than us, and in 2010 our
team in WA did not forget.
Working with Toll’s Western Australia-based Chaplain,
Elizabeth Breakey, the teams from Toll Priority, Toll IPEC,
Toll Dnata, Toll Express, Toll Fleet and Toll SPD in Perth took
part in the Prison Fellowship’s International Christmas
appeal, the angel Tree Project.
The project offers the community the chance to provide
gifts to children of prisoners in the WA prison system. The
teams responded very kindly by picking a gift tag from
Christmas trees, which had a child’s name and age on it.
In all, the Toll staff purchased gifts for 120 children. With
such a fantastic response, and a clear willingness to help
these young people, Elizabeth had to return to the Prison
Fellowship on a number of occasions to ask for more
children who the teams could help.
And to help Santa, Toll IPEC and Toll Priority worked as
Santa’s little elves by delivering the gifts to the children
before Christmas Eve! n
located in the Agam Regency, West of
Padang on Sumatra Island, Indonesia.
Toll’s donation greatly assisted the
rebuild of the school which took
almost 12 months to complete. The
community of Agam Regency was
extremely grateful for the facility which
will now give their young people the
start in life that they deserve. n
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