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Badlisham Speaks<br />
The View from<br />
the Top<br />
Malaysia is set to welcome more<br />
than 1,000 athletes, officials and<br />
supporters from 11 countries for<br />
the 29th Southeast Asian (SEA)<br />
Games and the 9th ASEAN Para<br />
Games. As guardian to the<br />
country's major gateway, KL<br />
International Airport (KLIA),<br />
Malaysia Airports is proud to be<br />
the KL 2017 Welcoming Partner<br />
and Gold Sponsor for the Games.<br />
Managing Director, Datuk<br />
Badlisham Ghazali extends his<br />
greetings to all those visiting<br />
Malaysia for the very first time<br />
and wishes the best to those<br />
participating to make their nation<br />
proud during the Games!<br />
The 29th SEA Games and the 9th ASEAN Para Games will<br />
take place between 19 and 30 August and between 17 and<br />
23 September, respectively.<br />
As this is our silver jubilee year and we feel that our collaboration<br />
through the sponsorship of KL 2017 is the perfect way for us<br />
to fulfil our mission of creating joyful experiences not only for<br />
the athletes and game officials but also other passengers who<br />
will be passing through our airports.<br />
As the welcoming partner, we take this role seriously. Apart<br />
from ensuring that the excitement of the Games is felt at<br />
our airport through themed ambience installation and<br />
activities, we are also supporting the facilitation of the arrival<br />
of the contingent.<br />
The ambience at the airport will include welcome banners,<br />
posters, games and photo booths. Experiential activities<br />
related to KL 2017 will be injected at the airport so that those<br />
who do not have the opportunity to attend the Games will<br />
also be able to participate in the excitement of the event.<br />
More importantly, we will also have our roving ambassadors<br />
placed at key touch points along the arrival and departure<br />
routes to provide operational and directional assistance. The<br />
roving ambassadors are recruited from our staff who are<br />
excited to volunteer and do their bit for the country as well.<br />
There will be between 60 and 70 roving ambassadors in total<br />
during the peak arrival period.<br />
However, we are not limiting our contribution to the duration<br />
of the Games as we are proudly sponsoring three Malaysian<br />
athletes who will also act as our ambassadors. These athletes<br />
are gymnast Farah Ann Abdul Hadi, taekwondo exponent<br />
Sarah Yap, discus thrower Muhd Irfan Shamsuddin and<br />
Paralympian, Mohd Ridzuan Mohd Puzi. The performance of<br />
these athletes will spur many to follow their path and we hope<br />
to rally the support of Malaysians for them. We also have<br />
plans to collaborate with them in inspiring school children<br />
from our adopted schools to emulate their dedication for a<br />
career in sports.<br />
These school children are from our Beyond Borders corporate<br />
social responsibility (CSR) programme and this year, we have<br />
begun Phase 4 of this programme which kicked off in 2007.<br />
Phase 4 involves the adoption of four schools within the Sepang<br />
district. Since inception, we have impacted more than 4,500<br />
students under this programme.<br />
With that being said, we would like to take this opportunity<br />
to welcome you to Malaysia and wish all athletes the very best<br />
and good luck! See you at the Games!<br />
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