NSTP-PwC Malaysian Humanitarian Award
Incepted in 2004 as the NSTP-PwC Young Humanitarian Award (YHA) by co-organisers and co-sponsors The New Straits Times Press Malaysia Bhd (NSTP) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the award was renamed as the NSTP-PwC Malaysian Humanitarian Awards (MHA) in 2005.

The change reflected its encompassing nature with the introduction of two new categories, namely the Lifetime Humanitarian and Team Humanitarian. This is in addition to the inaugural Young Humanitarian category.

The NSTP-PwC MHA seeks to bring national attention and accord recognition to Malaysians who have demonstrated outstanding public service and selfless deeds of a humanitarian nature that went beyond the normal call of duty. The award honours humanitarian acts and deeds that would otherwise go unrecognised and in the process, hopes to promote humanitarian principles and values.

		2005 recipients Young Humanitarian Balasupramanian 31, is the founder of the Malaysian Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association (MVFRA) whose dedication to volunteerism has taken him on search and rescue missions to earthquake and tsunami-stricken areas. Team Humanitarian National Cancer Society of Malaysia (NCSM) is dedicated to highlighting the importance of early detection of cancer. Lifetime Humanitarian Cecil Rajendra, 64, has devoted his adult life to awakening people to the burning social issues that afflict Malaysia and the Third World in general. 2004 recipient Young Humanitarian Norlina Alawi, 32, who established PERNIM was the inaugural recipient of the NSTP-PwC Young Humanitarian Award.

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