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Sustainability(2020)

Community Engagement

 
Overview of Social Welfare

The Company has strived to fulfill its corporate social responsibility. Each subsidiary actively participates in social welfare activities; the Company also integrates resources and power of Mega Charity Foundation and Mega International Commercial Bank Cultural and Educational Foundation to promote educational, sports, art activities and care for the disadvantaged. The business expenses of the two Foundations accounted for 71% of their total income, and volunteer activities benefited 20,330 beneficiaries in 2019. Through a series of charitable activities, the Company hopes to spread love to every corner of society.


Promoting Financial Education

● Consecutive Insurance Talent Awards in Two Categories

Mega Holdings and the subsidiary CKI received the recognition of young graduates once again and received the Excellence Award in the "Best Financial Holding and Insurance Companies for Finance and Insurance Graduates" based on votes from finance and insurance departments and institutes of universities. The award was given based on the number of votes cast by graduates in the "2019 Nationwide Financial Insurance Graduate Career Intention Survey" organized by the RMI Educational Foundation.

● Offering Job Opportunities to Economically Disadvantaged Students

In response to the Plan for Caring for the Economically Disadvantaged promoted by the Youth Development Administration, Ministry of Education, the Company has offered 343 students part-time jobs from 2012 to 2019 to develop their competitiveness for future careers. The Company was awarded the certificate of appreciation by Ministry of Education on October 31, 2019, due to the outstanding results of the plan.

● Visits by College, Junior High School, and Elementary School Students and Promotion of Financial Knowledge Activities

MICB integrated resources of the Group and organized the "Visits by College, Junior High School, and Elementary School Students Corporate Finance Education" program. NTU College of Management Camp, Department of Business Administration of Cheng Kung University, Department of Finance, Chung Yuan University, Department of Finance and Banking of Shih Chien University, and Jilin Elementary School visited the Bank in 2019. Employees used their core competencies and served as ambassadors of the finance industry to help promote financial knowledge and education.

Caring for the Socially Disadvantaged

● Donations for the "Mobile Food Stalls" of the Down Syndrome Foundation

To help those suffering from Down syndrome gain independence, we sponsored 10 food stall equipment to help them increase their work skills, return to the workplace, and integrate with society.

● Caring for Little Sisters of the Poor, Taiwan

Since 2011, the Company has cared for the Little Sisters of the Poor, Taiwan. To provide the elderly good quality of life, the Company has donated restructuring funds, computers, bathing facilities, and floor washing machines; in addition, volunteers have accompanied the elderly to sing old songs on a monthly basis for eight consecutive years. The donations were provided to the Little Sisters of the Poor of Bali District, New Taipei City in 2019 to provide the elderly with nutrition and life necessities.

● Supporting the Disadvantaged Children's Growth

The Company adopts children at family support centers throughout the country based on the spirit of "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." We hope disadvantaged children can learn and grow up in a care-free life and we aim to eliminate the gap between urban and rural areas. The following two graphs include feedbacks from pupils on their school and family lives.

● Supported domestic agricultural and economic initiatives by purchasing agricultural produce in season such as pineapples and guavas

In response to overproduction of agricultural produce, the Company purchased agricultural products as gifts for customers, social welfare organizations, and employees to help farmers. By actual actions to help farmers with a difficult year, we contribute to Taiwan's agricultural development. We received the 2019 "Assistance for Agricultural Food Product Marketing Corporate Award" from the Agriculture and Food Agency, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan.

● Share Resources and Love the Earth with Heartwarming Gifts

To share resources and not waste supplies, Mega Holdings organized the "Mid-Autumn Festival Gift Box" event before Mid-Autumn Festival and encouraged employees to donate usable items they don't need from their homes. The items are matched through a gifting platform and donated to social welfare organizations that need them to share usable supplies once again. This event helped deliver love and take care of the earth by recycling and reusing idle resources. We accumulated 30 boxes of donated supplies in just 3 days. After they were sorted and classified by "gift managers" consisting of disadvantaged individuals provided with work protection, they were donated to 480 social welfare institutions or organizations in Taiwan through a gifting platform in an open and transparent manner. The supplies were distributed based on needs to share resources with people who truly need them.

● Green Volunteers Protect the Earth

MICB and MITC organized the "Save the Ocean Beach Clearing Activity" and "Employee Mountain Cleaning Day" to protect the oceans, clean the mountains and forests, and care for the earth. They recruited 137 employees and family members as volunteers, including many young parents and their children, to remove trash from beaches or forests together. The shared experience with family members helps the next generation learn about environmental protection and help promote the ideals for caring for the earth at an early age.

Promoting sports activities

● Sponsoring Training of Remote Students on Taiwanese Featured Sports

The Company selected sports in which oriental people have an advantage and our cultural characteristics can be manifested and has long sponsored selected baseball teams, archery teams, and weightlifting teams of remote schools in Yilan, Hualien, and Tainan to build students' self-confidence and a sports atmosphere.

In terms of baseball activities, Mega Holdings has provided sponsorship of NT$3 million in funding each year for three consecutive years since 2017 to help train baseball teams of 11 elementary schools in Yilan. We also organized the second "Mega Cup Yilan Dream Come True Youth Baseball Championship" at the Lo Tung Baseball Stadium in Yilan County in July 2019 for 250 players and coaches from 22 teams to provide young baseball players with a platform to compete.

In terms of archery, the Company has sponsored the Hualian County Yuli Junior High School Archery Team with NT$2 million in training expenses each year for three consecutive years since 2017 in the hope of building a solid foundation of archery in Taiwan, strengthening the national archery capability, and nurturing more international archery talents for Taiwan. In 2019, we sponsored the reconstruction of the archery range of Yuli Senior High School in Hualien and sponsored the Dongao Elementary School archery team in Yilan. We also organized the "Mega Cup Archery Elite Contest" and invited 121 archers from elementary schools, junior high schools, and senior high schools in Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Yilan, Tainan, Kaohsiung, and Hualien to take part in the contest and expand the depth and scope of support for archery as a sport.

In weightlifting, the Company has sponsored the training expenses for the Tainan Danei Weightlifting team since 2014 in the hope of building a solid foundation for the sports and helping players from disadvantaged families obtain great results in competitions and change their lives.

● Sponsoring Domestic Sports Events and Creating a Sports Atmosphere

In 2019, the Company sponsored the Keelung City the 9th Rainy Keelung Cup- Weekend Basketball League, the Santaizi ATP Challenger Tour, 2019 Hualien Probation Basketball, 2019 Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic Championship, 2019 KENDA Tire TLPGA Open, and Yeangder Tournament Players Championship 2019 in hopes of promoting sports exchange through sports events at home and abroad and creating a healthy and positive atmosphere for sports.

● Organize Charity Running Events and Invited Customers and Suppliers to Participate in Running Events

The Ministry of Finance and Mega Holdings co-organized the 2019 Invoice Cup for Road Running (Kaohsiung). Nearly 10,000 runners took off under the lead of the Deputy Minister of Finance Tzu-Hsin Wu and Mega Holdings Chairman Chao-Shun Chang. Mega Holdings began co-organizing the Unified Invoice Cup for Road Running with 5 National Taxation Bureaus under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance starting from 2012. The event was organized for the eighth time in 2019 and we donated all 269,988 invoices collected to four social welfare organizations.

● Promote Sports to Support Taiwan's Bicycle Industry

Mega Holdings sponsored cycling events including the "48H Innova Cup Endurance Race of Taiwan" and "Merida Cup & Bike Festival 2019" to promote sports in Taiwan, support local bicycle industries, promote tourism development, and show the beautiful sights of Taiwan to the world.

● Organized the Second Mega Bank Esports Tournament to Increase Taiwan's Visibility to the World

Organized the second Mega Bank Esports Tournament which attracted approximately 512 players in 256 teams. The Company organized the esport contest to encourage young students to participate in esports and cultivate more international-level esports talents for Taiwan. We also seek to connect the esports industry to international standards and enter the global stage of esports so that the world can view our achievements.

 
Creating Local Art and Culture

● Support Children Living in Remote Areas and Let the World Hear Taiwan

Mega Holdings has provided long-term sponsorship to the Puzangalan Children's Choir since 2013 and has sponsored funding to help the Choir compete in overseas contests every year in the past 5 years. The Choir has visited countries including Germany, Japan, Hungary, and Italy. Puzangalan Children's Choir won gold awards in the children, folk song, and gospel music categories in the "International Johannes Brahms Choir Festival & Competition" in Germany in 2019, winning the first prize in gold in the children' category. The heavenly voices of the children have let more people from different countries learn about the beauty of the land and culture in Taiwan.

● Organized and Sponsored Concerts to Develop Taste in Music and Art

The Company sponsors a series of art appreciation activities every year to support the development of the local art industry and fulfill the social responsibility. In 2019, the Company organized large concerts in Taipei, Taichung, and Kaohsiung for MICB's customers. Our employees also served as volunteers for the concerts. The Company also sponsored the charity concerts, violin recitals, and the "Astounding Music and Dance - 2019 Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Dance Festival" to actively promote music and art culture.

● Sponsoring the 5th Tua-Tiu-Tiann International Festival of Arts in 2019 to Support Local Cultural Development

The Company sponsored 5th Tua-Tiu-Tiann International Festival of Arts for the third consecutive year in 2019. The Festival was organized by Chiang Wei-Shui's Cultural Foundation, Thinkers' Theatre, Bookstore 1920s and dozens of cultural associations and featured a diversity of art programs that combine modern and traditional art to explore the Taiwanese characteristic culture. The event inspired thinking through new-generation art integrated with cultural heritage at Tua-Tiu-Tiann.

● Promoting the Idea of "Say No to Drugs" by Sponsoring the Anti-drug Performance of Paper Windmill Theatre

Mega Holdings actively promotes anti-drug education and has provided long-term support for the anti-drug performances of the Paper Windmill Theatre since 2013. The Company continued to sponsor 10 performances in 2019 to provide anti-drug education in junior high schools in Taoyuan, Yilan, and Pingtung. Since the launch of the anti-drug performances of the Paper Windmill Theatre, performances have been given in 659 schools and more than 65% of junior high school students have viewed them. Mega Holdings will continue to promote anti-drug education on campus to help teenagers stay away from drugs.