Agility Teams with UN to Boost Refugee Service in Malaysia

Agility, a leading global logistics provider, and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced at Davos this week a partnership that will strengthen the delivery of essential services to refugees in Malaysia, in particular for vulnerable communities living away from the country’s capital.

The partnership, announced at the World Economic Forum, includes a $100,000 donation from Agility. UNHCR will use the funds to establish pilot programs in Johor and Penang, Malaysia, to bring critically needed services to more than 12,000 refugees, including refugee card renewal, access to essential information related to protection, and to receive counselling on available services.

There are some 178,000 refugees registered with UNHCR in Malaysia. Agility’s donation will allow UNHCR to further extend support to more than 12,000 refugees, most of them Rohingyas from Myanmar. With local engagement and support, Agility and UNHCR will eliminate the need for vulnerable refugees to travel 300+ kilometres from their homes to Kuala Lumpur to have access to vital services, including refugee card renewal.

H.R.H. Prince Jaime de Bourbon de Parme, Senior Advisor for Private Sector Partnerships, UNHCR, said, “Agility’s contribution is an important demonstration of solidarity from the Kuwait private sector and one that will improve the safety and well-being of thousands of refugees in Malaysia, a country that has a long history of hosting displaced populations. The global size and scale of displacement requires us to go beyond the business as usual approach and I am confident that Agility’s gesture will inspire the private sector to upscale its support to refugees.”