YAYASAN Pelajaran Mara (YPM) has allocated a total of RM2 million from January to August this year to provide assistance to 20,000 Bumiputera students nationwide under the foundation’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme.

Its chairman Mohd Razman Yaacob said material assistance provided include laptops, bicycles and cash. 

“As for Malacca, YPM allocated a total of RM100,000 to help 1,200 students during that period,” he told Bernama after officiating YPM’s Education CSR “Apa Khabar Anak Kuala” under the Pendidikan Pesisir Pantai initiative in Alor Gajah today. 

At the event, YPM channelled assistance totalling RM14,600 to 78 recipients, in the form of RM100 cash notes, bicycles and laptops.

Razman said any company or person wanting to contribute to YPM can do so through its website http://edonation.ypm.org.my or the Touch‘nGo e-Wallet app. Donors can receive tax deductions of up to 10% under Subsection 44(6) of the Income Tax Act 1967. – Bernama, September 25, 2022.