GS Caltex Adds Warm Energy with Year-End Non-Face-to-Face Volunteer Activities

Huh Se-hong, CEO of GS Caltex, is making Braille learning tools.

[Asia Economy Reporter Hwang Yoon-joo] GS Caltex conducted volunteer activities to bring warm energy to underprivileged neighbors near its nationwide business sites as the year-end approached. Considering the COVID-19 situation, GS Caltex carried out this year’s volunteer activities in a non-face-to-face manner to ensure the safety of employees and vulnerable groups.

GS Caltex’s year-end volunteer activities involved producing 'braille learning kits' and 'tile murals' distributed in kit form, which were delivered to welfare institutions and local children’s centers nationwide.

Starting from the 29th, GS Caltex plans to deliver the completed braille learning kits to welfare institutions across the country to be used for educating visually impaired children learning braille for the first time and those with acquired blindness. Additionally, the tile mural artworks, themed around dreams and featuring child-friendly images such as The Little Prince and Whale’s Dream, will be installed in eight children’s centers in Yeosu City.

Notably, the braille learning kits for the visually impaired distributed this time were newly developed by GS Caltex in collaboration with the Seoul Metropolitan Nowon Welfare Center for the Visually Impaired. These kits feature braille charts made in magnetic form, allowing visually impaired individuals to learn braille easily and enjoyably on their own. They can be used in various ways according to learning levels, from basic braille acquisition to word learning.

About 420 employees and family volunteers who voluntarily applied since November participated in GS Caltex’s non-face-to-face volunteer activities. Furthermore, on the 17th, executives including President Heo Se-hong also took part in producing the braille learning kits.

GS Caltex has been continuously conducting volunteer activities since 2005 to fulfill its corporate social responsibility and role. Throughout the year, it regularly carries out volunteer activities linked with local social welfare organizations, and during the year-end when demand for volunteering is high, it intensively runs relay volunteer programs.

In addition, GS Caltex is engaged in various social contribution activities. Through 'Ma-eum Toktok,' a psychological healing program for children and adolescents with emotional difficulties, it provided psychological healing opportunities to over 20,000 children and adolescents from 2013 to 2020. Moreover, through the GS Caltex Foundation, GS Caltex has developed the Yeosu cultural and arts park ‘GS Caltex Yeulmaru’ and the ‘Island of Arts Jangdo,’ offering local residents high-quality cultural and artistic viewing opportunities.

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