Seoul City and Good People Deliver 23,000 'Hope Boxes' Filled with Groceries to Vulnerable Groups

'2022 Boxing Day' Held at Dongdaemun Design Plaza on the 25th
Good People Supports Neighbors in Need in Seoul Since 2012 Through Hope Boxes... Totaling 22.4 Billion KRW

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Seoul Metropolitan Government is preparing 23,000 Love Hope Boxes, gift boxes, together with the international relief and development organization Good People, so that neighbors in need can spend Christmas and the year-end warmly.

On the 24th, Seoul announced that it will hold the ‘2022 Love Hope Box Boxing Day’ on the 25th at Dongdaemun Design Plaza, where hope boxes to be delivered to vulnerable groups will be packed together with Good People, Yoido Full Gospel Church, CJ CheilJedang, and the Seoul Social Welfare Council. The ‘Boxing Day,’ which originated in Europe, is a tradition of giving gifts such as grains in boxes to neighbors in need on December 26, the day after Christmas. This is a pure private-sector sharing movement where private organizations and companies cooperate to help neighbors in need at the end of the year.

Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon, Lee Young-hoon, Chairman of Good People, the nonprofit organization hosting the donation event, Choi Kyung-bae, Chairman, Kim Hyun-hoon, Chairman of the Seoul Social Welfare Council, and Park Chung-il, Head of CJ CheilJedang, a sponsoring company, are scheduled to attend the event, along with volunteers who will pack the hope boxes.

Since 2012, the nonprofit organization Good People has been delivering hope boxes, gift boxes composed of food items, to vulnerable groups in local communities. The support has expanded overseas to countries such as Kenya and Uganda, delivering a total of 216,000 hope boxes (worth 20 billion KRW) to date.

The hope boxes prepared together with CJ CheilJedang consist of a total of 17 types of food items, including gochujang, doenjang, and flour. Volunteers will carefully pack 23,000 boxes to be delivered to neighbors in need. The 23,000 hope boxes will be distributed to vulnerable groups nationwide, including elderly living alone and multicultural families, with 5,000 of them allocated to low-income residents throughout Seoul via the Seoul Metropolitan Food Center.

Lee Young-hoon, Chairman of Good People, who is hosting the donation event, said, “For 11 years, we have delivered love and hope to neighbors in need, sometimes with essential daily necessities and sometimes with healthy and hearty meals. Going forward, Good People will continue to deliver love with a servant’s heart to all places around the world in need, together with our sponsors.”

Kim Sang-han, Director of Welfare Policy, said, “Seoul is also carefully monitoring to ensure no blind spots occur. We will do our best to create a ‘Special City of Companionship, Seoul,’ where everyone is happy by delivering hope and courage to neighbors in need in our society.”

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