Lighthouse Club Cambodia Tees Off for Construction Safety

• 31 December 2015
• Local News
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Lighthouse Club Cambodia, the local chapter of an international construction industry charity, held a golf tournament in Phnom Penh on Friday 30 January to raise money for supporting victims of accidents and illness within the construction industry and their families.

The annual tournament attracts construction industry professionals from around the region.

This time entrants came from as far afield as Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur—to tee off in support of the Lighthouse Club’s charitable operations.

The EZECOM Lighthouse Charity Golf Day was hosted at Garden City Golf Club and members were treated to a barbecue lunch, cold beers, and a day off for a fine round on the greens – it was, after all, for a good cause. Around 45 golfers participated in Friday’s event, raising over US$8,000.

Raffle tickets were drawn for a range of prizes, many of which were donated by generous local businesses. After a hotly contested round of golf, Lighthouse Club members Im Reahul, Sangwat Heng, and Touch Seang Hay’s team topped the field.

Lighthouse Club board member, Jim Swander, says “I think it went very well, it was a fun time with a good group of people, including Lighthouse Club representatives from Hong Kong, Saigon, and Kuala Lumpur, and we raised a decent amount of money for a great cause.”

The event drew a wide range of support from sponsors including EZECOM (naming sponsor) PhilipBank, Jaguar&Land Rover, and RMA Cambodia (Gold Sponsors), DHL, ArTech Furniture, CPL Land, and Pestbusters (Bronze Sponsors). Other sponsors included Tarkett, Fletcher Aluminium, Raffles, the Sunway Hotel, the Exchange, Angkor Beer, Cambodia Golf Today Magazine, Ultimate M&E Equipment Group Ltd, and Parrot Computers. The event also extended its sincere thanks to B2B magazine.

“Every day there must be somebody injured at a site, and most of these accidents are preventable if companies and staff take the appropriate measures to ensure health and safety on site,” said Colin Rogers, the Lighthouse Cambodian Chapter Chairman.

“The Lighthouse Club Cambodia is a charitable institution with two principal objectives. The first is to provide assistance to those in need in the construction industry and to their dependents where a fatality has occurred. The second objective is to promote good fellowship and cooperation among members through a varied series of functions held throughout the year,” he explained.

The Lighthouse Club Cambodia gathers monthly. The next meeting will be at The Exchange on 12 March. For more information about visit www.lighthousecambodia.org.