Samhwa Paint Employee Volunteer Group Produces Fourth Special Book for Visually Impaired Children

Since 2017, Production and Support of Over 200 Braille, Tactile, and Audio Books for Visually Impaired Children

Kim Dae-hyung, Head of Marketing at Samhwa Paint Industrial (second from the left in the front row), is taking a commemorative photo while participating in the production of a 'Braille Pop-up Book' for visually impaired children with the company's volunteer group.
[Photo by Samhwa Paint]

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Jong-hwa] Samhwa Paint Industrial Co., Ltd. announced on the 23rd that about 10 executives and employees participated on the 20th to produce the fourth braille, tactile, and audio book for visually impaired children. Braille, tactile, and audio books are composed of braille, tactile, audio, and large print so that visually impaired people can easily access and use information.

Since 2017, Samhwa Paint has supported the production and distribution of about 200 special books annually for visually impaired children in collaboration with the Heart-Heart Foundation, some of which are made directly by the hands of executives and employees. Following last year's braille, tactile, and audio book "Gugakgi," composed of Korean traditional musical instruments, this year they are producing and distributing "Western Musical Instruments."

Due to social distancing, only a small number of people gathered for the event, where about 10 members of the in-house volunteer group "Woori Orae Hamkke" participated and directly made the key parts of representative orchestra instruments such as violin, cello, flute, clarinet, trumpet, and timpani. The key parts were tactileized using various materials, and QR codes containing sound sources provided by the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra were included so that visually impaired children could imagine the instruments by listening to their sounds.

A volunteer who participated in the event said, "Although it was difficult, we made it with care so that children who have never seen the instruments could immediately imagine Western musical instruments," and added, "It was a very meaningful time to think about the meaning of volunteering, which is usually difficult to experience, and about disabilities."

The production of special books is one of Samhwa Paint's "Invisible to Visible" projects, which utilizes the characteristics of a color-specialized company to support educational infrastructure for visually impaired children. It is a social contribution activity that helps visually impaired children, who cannot fully see colors and objects, to have a future vision through education, consisting of improving educational environments by applying color universal design to schools for the visually impaired and producing special books.

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