SPC Group Wins the Interior and Safety Minister’s Award in First Good Donor Awards of Korea

 

 

SPC Group announced on December 22, 2021 that it received the award of the Minister of the Interior and Safety in the First ‘Good Donor Awards of Korea’.

 

As the inaugural event hosted by Korea’s Ministry of the Interior and Safety and organized by the National Council of Charity, Korea, the ceremony of the Good Donor Awards of Korea was held to honor outstanding donation organizations and donors in line with the scheme of promoting donation and love-sharing culture as one of the major tasks of government policy direction for the second half of 2021.

 

SPC Group was honored with the award of the Minister of the Interior and Safety in recognition of its remarkable achievements in fulfilling social responsibility by constantly and systematically implementing 14 programs in three areas of human resource development, love-sharing and win-win, and self-support assistance for disabled persons through SPC Happy Foundation since 2012.

 

Among others, achievements of programs that assist self-support of needy youths rather than simply providing them with material support, such as ‘Patissier is My Dream’ program, were highly evaluated. Marking its 10th year, the ‘Patissier is My Dream’ program is designed to provide young students from low-income families who aspire to become baking professionals with scholarship, entrepreneurship education and employment. Over 600 children and teenagers have taken part in the program thus far, and the company has spent around KRW 450 million (approximately USD 378,000) for this program in accumulation. A part of participants who have steadily taken part in the program since 2016 were employed by SPC Group in 2021.

 

“It is more significant for us to be honored as the first winner of the inaugural Good Donor Awards of Korea that is designed to invigorate love-sharing and donation culture,” said a manager at SPC Group. “We will continue to invigorate love-sharing and donation activities while expediting environment, society and governance (ESG)-focused management to fulfill social responsibility.”