Doosan Co., Ltd. Hosts Online 'Wooriduri' Sports Day for Youth with Developmental Disabilities

Doosan Corporation's social contribution program, the 'Wooriduri' Sports Day, is being held online. (Photo by Doosan)

[Asia Economy Reporter Jeong Hyunjin] Doosan Corporation announced on the 16th that it conducted a live online sports day for adolescents with developmental disabilities.

Doosan Corporation has been implementing the social contribution program "Wooriduri" since 2016 to support recreational sports for adolescents with developmental disabilities. Since last year, the curriculum has been reorganized to operate non-face-to-face, and it conducted the nation's first non-face-to-face online recreational sports class. This event was attended by about 70 people, including 50 adolescents from nine schools nationwide, as well as teachers and officials from each school.

The adolescents learned and showcased their skills in new sports such as sport stacking, which involves stacking and unstacking cups while measuring records, and Handler, a sport combining table tennis and badminton, through real-time online classes in their classrooms. The sports day proceeded in the order of an opening ceremony, delivery of encouragement messages from employees, sport stacking competition, Handler competition, awards ceremony, and closing ceremony.

Since last year, Doosan Corporation has been planning social contribution activities that can be practiced even during the COVID-19 situation and has converted existing social contribution programs to non-face-to-face formats.

They also operate the "Time Traveler" program, which helps foster adolescents' emotional development linked to the middle school free semester system, in a non-face-to-face manner by reorganizing the curriculum. Additionally, they run the "Sharing Walking Campaign," which donates funds to local communities proportional to employees' step counts; the fundraising event "A Good Day to Donate," where employees can participate online; and the "Sseudam Walking Campaign," where employees walk short distances on foot while picking up trash.

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