Published by Las Vegas Sands on July 31, 2024

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / August 20, 2024 / Alleviating food insecurity is a key focus of Sands Cares’ global community engagement program, which is geared toward alleviating hardship and supporting underserved populations. From March to June, Sands team members around the world participated in the third annual Sands Cares Global Food Kit Build, joining together in a collaborative effort to address this important issue in their local communities.

Marina Bay Sands launched the Sands Cares Global Food Kit Build 2024 in March at an event with long-term community partner The Food Bank Singapore. More than 330 team members, retail tenants and representatives from food donating organisations assembled 5,200 food kits, including staples such as biscuits, milo, rice and canned goods. Food Bank Singapore distributed these supplies to nine organisations including Red Cross Singapore, PERTAPIS and Sunlove, who also participated in the build.

Since 2016, Marina Bay Sands has partnered with Food Bank Singapore to combat hunger in vulnerable populations through a range of measures, including the donation of unused catering food from the Sands Expo and Convention Centre and ongoing volunteering of team members to sort and inventory food donations at Food Bank Singapore’s warehouse.

In early April, Sands’ Las Vegas corporate team hosted its first Sands Cares Food Kit Build on the grounds of the new corporate headquarters. Team members partnered with The Pack Shack to assemble more than 41,000 non-perishable meals to benefit local organizations, including Three Square Food Bank, the largest hunger relief organization in Southern Nevada.

Sands China hosted its Sands Cares Food Kit Build event in June with long-term partner Caritas Macau. More than 280 Sands China team members and senior volunteers from Caritas Macau’s Centro de Cuidados Especiais Longevidade gathered at the Venetian® Macao’s Cotai Expo to assemble 3,000 food kits totaling 21 tons of food.

Each food parcel contained 18 food items of staples such as oil, rice, macaroni, canned goods and biscuits, and Sands Cares ambassadors are helping to distribute the parcels to those in need at Caritas Macau service points in July and August.

The annual Sands Cares Global Food Kit Build is Sands’ flagship event to combat food insecurity, which the company supports in a variety of ways – from repurposing unused food supplies at its resorts as donations to hunger relief organizations to ongoing partnerships with local relief organizations for volunteer and program support.

Additionally, the kit is one of three global programs uniting Sands regions around the world, along with the Sands Cares Accelerator, an initiative to empower nonprofits to have a greater community impact, and the Sands Cares Global Hygiene Kit Build with Clean the World.

To learn more about Sands Cares’ programs addressing food insecurity and providing emergency relief, read the company’s latest ESG report: https://www.sands.com/resources/reports/.

Members of the Las Vegas Sands corporate team prepare food packages.

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