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As the main sponsor, Maybank Foundation aims to empower communities through sustainable development and value creation, focusing specifically on the areas of community and environment and being at the heart of community.

“We are most fortunate that today, Maybank has found a CR effort worthy of our support, working with partners Unicef Malaysia and Rhythm in Bronze. This is because the effort involves inculcating awareness of contemporary gamelan amongst our Malaysian children towards greater understanding of how the diversity of our people here is helping build a wonderful Malaysia".

UNICEF is guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood to adolescence, in over 190 countries. In Malaysia, UNICEF collaborates with government and civil society to promote development with equity in support of the 10th Malaysia Plan.

“We are honoured to be a part of an initiative that embraces a child's right to participate in cultural life and the arts," said UNICEF's Representative to Malaysia, Wivina Belmonte. "Artistic pursuits help children develop qualities such as empathy, compassion and humaneness through creativity, while exploring the wonders of their own imagination. The inclusion of an arts and crafts exhibition by autistic children is particularly significant and meaningful to UNICEF as we believe that all children should have equal opportunities, without disability of any kind being used as a barrier to their full participation and expression”.

Rhythm in Bronze (RiB) is the first Malaysian ensemble to devise contemporary performances based entirely on the Malay gamelan since 1997. They have been instrumental in developing the genre of gamelan theatre in Malaysia and paving the path for the development and preservation of this Malaysian Art Form & Heritage. RiB has been the first to use the gamelan as the main medium in concerts, introduced and advanced a new performance style - gamelan theatre, and has been engaging in on-going creation of new music for the Malaysian gamelan.
“This is possibly the first time ever that young people are creating music for theatre through gamelan and gong culture (and perform) as an integral part of a music theatre production. The cast of 26 ranging in age from 8 to 18 were handpicked early this year during casting sessions. The thinking behind the project was to produce Music Theatre with the facilitation and direction of top professionals in their fields while celebrating the infinite creativity of young people.”

The Jumping JellyBeans (JJB) has the vision of bringing theatre back to children. Currently JJB carries out workshops and performances for children and adults, and is recognized for its ongoing work with special needs children.

The oldest newspaper in Malaysia traces its roots back to a weekly journal printed in 1845. Then the Straits Times, it has gone through several transformations most significantly, the name change to New Straits Times and downsize from a broadsheet to a compact version. Its strong conviction for a stable, progressive nation-building brings to its audience a rich editorial content that has garnered huge following of movers and shakers, and key decision makers, paving the way to a united and progressive Malaysia.