Summary

Established in 1991, Mitsubishi Electric Thai Foundation (METF) has been supporting Thai society on educational support through scholarship program which has been continuing for 30 years to provide scholarships to university engineering students. Since 2014, Foundation has extended the support to environmental activity in collaboration with government sectors and local community with support from each group companies in Thailand. Since then, the volunteer activity with all group companies’ employee engagement has been conducted with focus on the environmental activity. Thai Philanthropic Committee has established to strengthen CSR collaborations between Mitsubishi Electric Group company in Thailand and to response to social needs to create positive impact for Thai society where we belong to.

Educational support for the development of next generation

Scholarship Program for underprivileged engineering students at four engineering universities for the development of science and technology human resources in Thailand.

Science Classroom activity for primary school students to learn science through fun experiments and the opportunity for students to learn Mitsubishi Electric key technologies to create the love for science knowledge for future innovation.

Science Classroom activity is conducted by host company rotating each year and each company will be able to present their key technology through fun scientific experiment linked to their own business and the opportunity to make a contribution to nearby school at their local communities.

Prateep Dek Thai Project to build Child Development in rural area across Thailand for children of 2-6 years old for the preparation for physical and psychological development for future education and to lessen the financial burden to parents who has no time to take care of children due to the necessity to work on daily basis.

Prateep Dek Thai Project to build Child Development Center is a matching gift scheme which METF will make a matching gift to the donation from Mitsubishi Electric group employee in Thailand to achieve 290,000 Baht for the contribution to make one Child Development Center in rural area. The project founded by Luangphor Viriyang Sirintharo who foresee the early child development in early years of age plays crucial roles in the future development in later education stage and METF is proudly to collaborate to create equality of education opportunities and for the fundamental development of Thai Children.

Partnership School Project is student and community empowerment activity at school as a life learning center of the community where student learn to be an entrepreneur through agricultural simulation of business model from producer, marketing, accounting etc.

Environmental Preservation

Community Water Management Project to combating for drought problem in Thailand for 2023 which benefit for community’s water reservation during drought period and flooding countermeasure as well. The project is in collaboration with *Utokapat Foundation under Royal Patronage of H.M. the King. On 5 January 2024, METF received the Award from Her Royal Highness Princess Sirindhorn for the contribution to Utokapat Foundation for the community water management project.

1. * Foundation established under royal initiative to manage water, soil and forest resources in Thailand

Community Forest Partnership for Climate Action in collaboration with the Royal Forest Department, Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organization (TGO) and the Forest Community aims to help reduce greenhouse gas emission by conducting environmental activity as an important and sustainable carbon sink which beneficial for reducing global warming along with promoting the self-reliant ability of the community according to the Royal Sufficiency Economy Initiative.

Collaboration with Thai employees: METF in collaboration with 11 Mitsubishi Electric Group companies in Thailand, has been contributing to environmental preservation through volunteer activity with all group companies’ employee, unites to participate at the annual tree planting event. On 15 June 2024, more than 500 employee volunteers of Mitsubishi Electric group in Thailand have gathered at Ban In-Trai Community Forest, Prachantakham District in Prachinburi Province for tree planting and maintenance for natural trail with the local community.