UMW signed an MOU with Yayasan Anak Warisan Alam (YAWA), on 18 December 2008 to jointly organise two projects :
UMW Green Challenge
UMW Green Challenge - an environmental education and conservation programme for secondary school students. The programme aims to create an understanding and sense of responsibility for the eco-system through many hands-on activities.
The UMW Green Challenge also functions as a leadership programme. It is designed to enhance participants’ research and communications skills, build confidence and most importantly, empower them to make a positive difference for Mother Nature.
The Green Workplace
The Green Workplace - a comprehensive internal programme aimed at inculcating good environmental practices and habits among UMW employees.
The Toyota Eco Youth (TEY)
TEY competition is another environment-themed nationwide competition for secondary schools, which is developed by UMW Toyota Motor in collaboration with the Malaysian Ministry of Education since 2001. This project aims to cultivate good habits and practices in environmental preservation and conservation amongst the younger generation. Teams from the participating schools are tasked with identifying environmental or ecological issues within their school compounds and developing solutions to these issues. Schools with the most effective and well thought-out solutions are picked as the winners. This encourages school-level awareness of the environment - catching them young so that they grow up to be responsible citizens.
Toyota Eco-Rangers
Toyota Eco-Rangers Programme which was launched in 2008 is an environmental programme designed for school students.
The programme adopted 22 secondary schools in the Klang Valley for 3 years and these schools were encouraged to actively engage in various eco-projects to raise environmental awareness. Projects range from cultivating herb gardens, revitalising plant and water features within the school compound to producing a viable waste reduction plan. Participants were also required to plant 100 indigenous trees within the school compound. The schools were given an initial grant to kick-start their projects.