Small and Medium Enterprises Lead Warm Lunar New Year... Deliver Food Kits and Daily Necessities to Welfare Facilities

The SME Love Sharing Foundation has produced food kits since 2021
Some items, such as school supplies and toys, were donated by SMEs

Small and medium-sized enterprises took the lead in ensuring a warm Lunar New Year holiday.

Kim Ki-moon, Chairman of the Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business, is giving a greeting speech at a meeting of small and medium business owners held at the Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, on the morning of December 26 last year. Photo by Yonhap News

The Korea Federation of SMEs and the SME Love Sharing Foundation announced on the 21st that they invited directors of welfare facilities for children, the elderly, the disabled, and the homeless to the Federation of SMEs in Yeouido, Seoul, and delivered 52,000 servings of rice cake soup with dumplings, winter supplies, daily necessities, and other items worth about 200 million won to over 200 welfare facilities nationwide.

The SME Love Sharing Foundation has been producing holiday food kits for about 40,000 people during Lunar New Year and Chuseok since 2021 to comfort marginalized groups who may feel lonelier during the holiday season and delivering them to welfare facilities across the country.

Especially this year, in addition to food kits, customized support was provided for items needed by welfare facilities for children, the elderly, the disabled, and the homeless. Children’s facilities received school supplies, toys, sports equipment, and stationery; elderly facilities received rice, tissue paper, electric blankets, and more; facilities for the disabled received adult diapers, rice, blankets, etc.; and homeless shelters received blankets, mattresses, thermal underwear, and other items.

Some items such as school supplies, toys, and thermal underwear were donated by the SME sector. The rice was purchased from Jangjaeri Village in Boeun-gun, a clean area that has a one-company-one-village partnership with the SME Love Sharing Foundation, adding significance to coexistence with rural communities.

Kim Ki-moon, chairman of the Federation of SMEs, said, “Since the sharing of holiday food began during the COVID-19 period, from this year we have taken a step further to ensure that the items provided to those receiving help are truly what they need, and the SME sector has made meticulous efforts in its sharing activities.”

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