Melco deploys employees for typhoon cleanup efforts

Melco Resorts and Entertainment last week deployed a volunteer team of nearly 100 employees to help clear the city’s streets after Signal No.10 typhoon Mangkhut left its mark on the city on September 16.

Employees from Melco’s property and construction services department were dispatched during the week to assist with the city’s repair efforts and the removal of the accumulation of litter in parts of Macau.

Meanwhile, another group of Melco employees joined the Macau Government Tourism Office’s clean-up initiative at Hac Sa, Macau’s largest natural beach, to remove the debris that washed up onto the shoreline as a result of typhoon Mangkhut.

“Our thoughts are with those whose properties were damaged in the typhoon,” said Lawrence Ho, chairman and chief executive officer of Melco, according to a statement from the gaming operator.

“At Melco, we pledge to assist the government in helping bring about a swift restoration of order to the city. We will do our best to offer help to those in need in the community as we further coordinate additional relief efforts in the coming days.”

Other gaming operators in Macau also conducted relief efforts after Mangkhut, following on from earlier initiatives enacted in the aftermath of Hato last year.

Typhoon Mangkhut, which was classified by the local weather authority as a “severe typhoon” by the time it approached Macau shores, was one of the strongest storms in recent history, more or less as powerful as Hato.

It left 40 people with injuries (most of them light), caused hundreds of instances of falling scaffolding and small building parts, and felled about 1,500 trees.