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Program aimed at teenaged orphans who have to take care of younger siblings, senior citizens without families to support them, and women who work around military camps
Medical assistance program to be expanded to other countries in need.
SK Telecom has been a leader in bringing outside Korea?s social mainstream such as orphaned teenagers who must raise younger siblings and disabled persons into the information age. Every year since 1998, the company has also supported free medical services offered by Global Care* to orphaned breadwinners, the elderly living alone, women working around military bases and foreign workers in Korean factories. To date, SK Telecom has donated 300 million won to assist over 1,500 persons.
On April 26, SK Telecom announced that it would donate an additional 105 million won to Global Care to pay for transporting mobile medical units and to cover the costs related to operations and other medical treatments.
Meanwhile, SK Telecom has also helped Global Care to provide free reconstructive surgery for Vietnamese children with facial deformities since 1997. So far, over 1,000 children have benefited from the program.
According to Sr. Managing Dir. Lee Noh Jong, chief of the SK Telecom PR Division, ?SK Telecom will continue to expand its assistance to the disadvantaged inside and outside Korea. Specifically, we plan to target those in need in Laos, Cambodia and other nations where help is badly needed.
Korean public concern for the needy and support from public welfare organizations dropped off sharply in the wake of the nation?s recent foreign currency crisis. However, SK Telecom has continued to increase its assistance. Last year, the company invested 57 billion won in various public service programs. These programs included providing computers to orphaned teenagers with younger siblings to support, handicapped teenagers and primary school students in remote Korean villages; establishing ?big brother/sister? relations between SK Telecom employees and teenaged breadwinners and providing cabbages to need families during the kimchi-making season.
*Global Care: From the 1980s, a group consisting mainly of domestic Christian doctors has provided free medical treatment to foreign workers in Korea, the urban poor and rural villages without a physician. Their medical services were also expanded to Mongolia, China, Vietnam and Rwanda in 1990. These good Samaritans officially established Global Care as a non-government organization in February 1997.
On April 26, SK Telecom announced that it would donate an additional 105 million won to Global Care to pay for transporting mobile medical units and to cover the costs related to operations and other medical treatments.
Meanwhile, SK Telecom has also helped Global Care to provide free reconstructive surgery for Vietnamese children with facial deformities since 1997. So far, over 1,000 children have benefited from the program.
According to Sr. Managing Dir. Lee Noh Jong, chief of the SK Telecom PR Division, ?SK Telecom will continue to expand its assistance to the disadvantaged inside and outside Korea. Specifically, we plan to target those in need in Laos, Cambodia and other nations where help is badly needed.
Korean public concern for the needy and support from public welfare organizations dropped off sharply in the wake of the nation?s recent foreign currency crisis. However, SK Telecom has continued to increase its assistance. Last year, the company invested 57 billion won in various public service programs. These programs included providing computers to orphaned teenagers with younger siblings to support, handicapped teenagers and primary school students in remote Korean villages; establishing ?big brother/sister? relations between SK Telecom employees and teenaged breadwinners and providing cabbages to need families during the kimchi-making season.
*Global Care: From the 1980s, a group consisting mainly of domestic Christian doctors has provided free medical treatment to foreign workers in Korea, the urban poor and rural villages without a physician. Their medical services were also expanded to Mongolia, China, Vietnam and Rwanda in 1990. These good Samaritans officially established Global Care as a non-government organization in February 1997.