Lotus’s Stores (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (Lotus’s Malaysia) together with the Pintar Foundation are set to make a meaningful impact on thousands of under-resourced students for the remainder of 2025.
Ahead of the third annual Lotus’s Ceria Charity Run (CCR) 2025 this month, the retail chain has announced its commitment to channel the RM400,000 raised from CCR 2024 into education programmes under the Lotus’s-Pintar Smart Up School Programme. The programme will benefit more than 6,400 students, aged 10 to 15, from 40 of Lotus’s adopted schools nationwide.
The programme was designed to raise awareness among students on the importance of money management, and to foster positive financial and shopping habits from an early age.
The first school to experience the programme was SMK Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah (SMK SAAS) in Kajang last month, with participation from Form Two students.
According to Lotus’s Malaysia communications and sustainability head Hanim Hamdan, the school was selected through the recommendation of Pintar Foundation. SMK SAAS was the first of 63 schools to go through the programme.
“The programme’s objective is to teach students how to be financially savvy. It teaches them how to budget and to understand the difference between ‘needs’ and ‘wants’,” she said.
