Shinhan Financial Group Volunteers to Produce Braille Educational Materials for the Visually Impaired

As Part of the Global Volunteer Festival

Shinhan Financial Group Chairman Cho Yong-byeong (left in photo), Bank President Jin Ok-dong (right in photo), and group company CEOs who participated in the 'Making Braille Teaching Materials for the Visually Impaired' held via untact video conference are taking a commemorative photo.

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyo-jin] Shinhan Financial Group announced on the 17th that, as part of the '2020 Global One Shinhan Volunteer Festival,' Chairman Cho Yong-byeong, CEOs, and executives of group companies conducted a volunteer activity to 'make braille teaching materials for the visually impaired' in an untact manner from their respective offices.

This volunteer activity was organized to support visually impaired individuals, whose learning opportunities have decreased due to the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), by directly producing braille teaching materials, which are scarce and expensive.

Shinhan Financial plans to deliver a total of 300 braille teaching material kits made on this day to local community welfare centers and schools for the blind, enabling visually impaired people to study braille at home.

The Global One Shinhan Volunteer Festival is Shinhan Financial's representative volunteer program, continuing for 13 years, aimed at contributing to solving community issues through social contribution activities focusing on coexistence (welfare), empathy (culture), and symbiosis (environment).

Since 2009, Shinhan Financial has expanded volunteer activities, which were individually conducted by each group company, into a grand group volunteer festival. This year, the festival will be held mainly through individual activities in untact formats such as small-scale volunteer work with fewer than 10 people and home-based volunteering for about a month until the end of June.

For domestic volunteer activities, the group is conducting a small business support project through the delivery of hope boxes as part of the 'Hope Together' campaign. Additionally, it plans to support hygiene education for underprivileged children through the 'Bboddeuk Ssaksak' personal hygiene relay campaign and soap kit production.

Social contribution activities reflecting the needs of overseas subsidiaries by country and humanitarian emergency relief projects are also underway. Furthermore, for countries severely affected by COVID-19, the group plans to carry out support activities for disaster recovery through public-private cooperation with global NGOs.

It also plans to produce hygiene education books for underprivileged children in developing countries and provide them along with health kits, as well as conduct blood donation activities to alleviate blood shortages.

In China, masks and donations will be contributed to COVID-19 patients and underprivileged residents; in Kazakhstan, medical supplies such as diagnostic reagents will be provided; and in the United Arab Emirates, COVID-19 prevention supplies such as masks and hand sanitizers will be delivered.

Additionally, in India, daily necessities will be sponsored for children in small orphanages requiring care; in Myanmar, a water improvement project will be carried out for low-income families; and in Vietnam, water and food will be provided to 1,500 low-income households.

Chairman Cho Yong-byeong stated, "In the global crisis of COVID-19, the group will spare no support to help communities and residents in need recover quickly," adding, "We will continue to fulfill our responsibilities as a corporate citizen through sincere humanitarian social contribution activities."

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