ST ONLINE REFLECTION
TERM 2 WEEK 4
SEC 2E/NA

Businesses are still big on doing good
(Part B – Home Section – Page B6 – The Home Market)

Question 1:
What are big companies doing in order to be more socially responsible?

Question 2:
How important it is to be socially responsible? And do you think it is still possible to make a social impact during the recession?

Answers:

Q1)Although there was an economic slowdown and crisis, still big companies like McDonald's had their employees and their family members to have fun and help in a fund raising for the Ronald McDonald children's charity. SingTel too, had $2.2 million for the SingTel Touching Lives Fund for the less privileged children.

Q2)It is important to be socially responsible, because if there is no social grace, everyone in the world will be selfish and anti-sociable, therefore there will not be jobs for everyone, people will then have to start farming for themselves by then. For one to be socially responsible, it doesn't mean we have to give all we have, at least we have to care for them, perhaps giving a 1/5 of your pocket money to charity, for example if you have $5, you can just give a $1, to show that you care. Yes, we still can give what we have. An example , recession doesn't mean the end of the world, we still have to grow our own crops before giving them away, just that it would be a matter of quantity, but the quality is still the same.