Gmarket Supports Psychological Care for Families of Children with Disabilities through Year-Round Donation Project 'Touch'

[Asia Economy Reporter Seungjin Lee] Gmarket is conducting a campaign until the 31st to raise funds for psychological care support for families of children and adolescents with disabilities through its year-round donation crowdfunding project, "Touch."

Gmarket's "Touch" is a campaign aimed at soothing and healing the widespread loneliness, anxiety, and trauma in society. Since its launch in March with firefighters, it has been providing psychological care support to abused children, COVID-19 medical staff, and care workers.

Any Gmarket member can participate in the campaign. When a Gmarket member clicks the funding button within the Touch campaign, Gmarket donates from the customer participation social contribution fund called "Support Shopping" for each click. A comment relay board has also been created to send messages of support to families of children with disabilities. On eBay Korea's SNS channels (Facebook, LinkedIn), you can also watch an interview video with families of children with disabilities produced by Seoul Rehabilitation Hospital.

The raised funds will be fully donated to Seoul Rehabilitation Hospital's "Psychological Care Support for Families of Children and Adolescents with Disabilities" project. Seoul Rehabilitation Hospital is one of the few in Korea operating a dedicated treatment team for disabled adolescents and runs a family support center that offers various activities such as professional psychological counseling, emotional support, family integration support, father classes, and programs for non-disabled siblings to help patients and families overcome psychological and social difficulties.

Jiseon Lee, Director of Seoul Rehabilitation Hospital, said, "In families with children with disabilities, one parent often takes full responsibility for the child's rehabilitation treatment, education, and exercise, and tends to work harder for financial support. Psychological support is very important to help families of children and adolescents with disabilities overcome difficulties and accept disabilities healthily."

Yoonhee Hong, Director of Communications at eBay Korea, said, "Schools serve as a major support system for children and adolescents with disabilities and their families, but due to COVID-19, access to schools and therapy rooms has been difficult, causing double burdens in family care. We hope many customers participate in the Gmarket Touch campaign so that the need for psychological support for children and adolescents with disabilities becomes more widely known."

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