– Hyundai Corporation Group Volunteer Service Society, Visited Baeksa Village to Deliver Donation and Participated in Briquette Service Activity –
▲ The Volunteer Service Society delivered briquette donation which was collected by executives and staff members for the residents living at Baeksa Village on the 25th.
Hyundai Corporation Group Volunteer Service Society visited ‘Baeksa Village’ located at Junggye bon-ding, Nowon-gu, Seoul to deliver ‘Love Briquette Donation’ collected from executives and staff members on the 25th marking Christmas Day, and returned after participating in briquette service activity for about two hours together with about 300 support angels there.
On that day, the donation delivered by the Volunteer Service Society was 6,112,000 won in total amounting to the value for 7,640 briquettes (800 won per one). The donation sponsored by Hyundai Corporation Group executives and staff members for Baeksa Village dwellers to get through the approaching winter warmly from Dec. 13 until Dec. 18 is scheduled to be preciously used through “Seoul Briquette Bank; which is taking care of Baeksa Village residents at present.
The Volunteer Service Society extended expressions of special gratitude to the in-house supporters who collected the amount of money far surpassing the initial expectation.
Along with donation delivery, the ‘Christmas Day Briquette Service Activity, in which the Volunteer Service Society took part, was the special event arranged by Seoul Briquette Bank for private service workers participating in regular support activities in a bid to give the opportunity to participate only to ‘Support Angels’ who subscribed to this activity individually in advance. It is said that the competition rate was really high because private supporters in Seoul and Gyeonggi District applied in great numbers.
In Christmas Day briquette service activity on that day, participants delivered 12,000 briquettes coming and going on steep alley ways of Baeksa Village in six groups (50 people per group). In spite of having to frequently go up and down the high hills in cold weather, the participants readily shared the experience in rendering the warmth of love to the neighbors in need with each other delightfully.
An employee named Lee, Na-rae at the car parts team participating in the event said, “Frankly, I have had no time to participate in service activity while spending busy hours on company work, but I was able to spend meaningful hours by virtue of the Volunteer Service Society” and went on to say, “physically strenuous, but I felt lighter than ever doing this activity.”
Meanwhile, with the start of summer mineral water support activity for “Jongno Compact Room” near the company in July, the Hyundai Corporation Group Volunteer Service Society, which was first formed as a spontaneous volunteer worker gathering in June this year, has steadily carried out old clothes arrangement for the homeless, and free meal service activity for the dwellers at compact rooms twice every month throughout the second half of this year. In addition, the Society wrapped up this year service with the participation in in-house employees donation collection activity, and briquette service for warm wintering of Baeksa Village residents.
Even in the New Year, the Volunteer Service Society is also making a plan for the activity aiming to give help to the neighbors in need who are living near the company. The free meal service activity for Donui-dong compact room village residents is to be continued in the New Year, and besides, the same Society is planning an event such as old clothes collection for the homeless, and giving assistance to physically/mentally impaired adolescents, etc. Specifically, on a long-term view, the same Society plans to broaden the related activity scope and contents little by little for the time to come such as coming up with home-abroad-connected volunteer service activity in link with Hyundai Corporation Group’s overseas investment corporations.