'Practicing Coexistence' Gwangyang Steelworks Volunteer Group Delivers Wooden Crafts to People with Disabilities

Donation of 50 Custom-Made Wheelchair Meal Trays
"Continued Support to Give Hope to the Vulnerable"

The POSCO Gwangyang Steelworks Volunteer Talent Group, led by Plant Manager Ko Jaeyoon, held a wooden craft product delivery ceremony on October 22 at the Kumho-dong Cooperation Hall in Gwangyang City to bring hope to local people with disabilities, practicing coexistence with the local underprivileged groups.

The ceremony was attended by Park Kyungmi, a member of the South Jeolla Provincial Council; Yoon Seunghyun, Head of the Administrative Liaison Group at Gwangyang Steelworks; Ha Joyeonseo, Head of the General Affairs Team in Kumho-dong; Jeong Byungkwan, Director of Jungma Senior Welfare Center; Kim Seona, President of the Local Children's Center Association; as well as representatives from local children's centers and senior care facilities, and about 70 participants including volunteer group members.

The Gwangyang Steelworks Volunteer Talent Group held a wooden craft product delivery ceremony on the 22nd at the Gwangyang City Geumho-dong Cooperation Hall to bring hope to local people with disabilities, practicing coexistence with the local underprivileged groups. Photo by Gwangyang Steelworks

Since its launch in 2020, the "Hope Tree Wooden Craft Volunteer Talent Group" (hereafter referred to as the Wooden Craft Volunteer Group) has been designing and producing wooden furniture, delivering these items to welfare facilities and vulnerable groups in need.

With 92 members, the group has produced a total of 864 wooden items-including storage boxes, desks, shelves, food service tables, dining tables, bookshelves, shoe racks, and dressers-and delivered them to child welfare facilities, local community centers, and underprivileged households. In 2022, the group signed a business agreement with 18 local children's centers, pledging to regularly provide wooden products and support children's dreams and hopes through the production and delivery of these items.

At the event, the Wooden Craft Volunteer Group donated 50 custom-made wheelchair meal trays to help people with physical disabilities dine more comfortably and conveniently.

The delivery ceremony was held in conjunction with the opening of the newly remodeled workshop for the Wooden Craft Volunteer Group. To ensure that volunteers can create wooden products for the local community in a pleasant environment throughout all four seasons, the workshop was equipped with new heating and cooling systems, a dust collector, and underwent comprehensive interior renovations and partition installations, which are expected to significantly increase volunteer satisfaction.

Kim Gihyeon, head of the Wooden Craft Volunteer Group, said, "It is very meaningful for our members to share their talents with our neighbors in the community. We will continue to support local children and vulnerable groups so they can have hope, and we will strive to help even more neighbors in the future."

Meanwhile, Gwangyang Steelworks continues to spread warmth in the community through various activities, such as visiting local traditional market stores ahead of the year-end and New Year holidays, delivering kimchi and daily necessities to underprivileged groups, holding rice sharing events, and improving the living environments of vulnerable households.

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