Commitment to Social Responsibility

Doosan Group Chairman Park Jeong-won is making furniture with an employee.
Doosan Group Chairman Park Jeong-won is making furniture with an employee.

 

Doosan Heavy’s CSR activities are introduced in the case book published by Korean Association of UNGC and titled “Sustainable Development Goals “.
Doosan Heavy’s CSR activities are introduced in the case book published by Korean Association of UNGC and titled “Sustainable Development Goals “.

 

Marking the 120th anniversary of its founding this year, Doosan Group is carrying out various corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities at home and aboard.

For instance, “Doosan Day of Community Service” is a festival of sharing participated by Doosan employees from all across the world at the same time on the same day. Throughout four events held after the inauguration in October 2014, it has become its traditional corporate social responsibility (CSR) culture.

For the Doosan Day of Community Service held on April 15 this year, 8,400 employees from 20 countries across the world, including the Asia, Americas, Europe, and Korea, joined together for volunteer programs to serve their local communities.

In Korea, employees made furniture for the low-income families, visited the disadvantaged and welfare facilities and cleaned the environment. In the U.S., employees donated money for children in the region and made a visit. In Europe, including the U.K., employees helped repair regional community centers and welfare facilities for the disabled. In India and Vietnam, employees helped repair schools, welfare facilities and houses of the low-income groups.

Doosan’s “Time Traveler” program designed for teenagers from low-income families was selected as the model case contributing to the national happiness by Cheong Wa Dae and the Ministry of Strategy and Finance last year.

As a global company, Doosan is carrying out more diverse CSR activities. Reflecting the characteristics of projects, the group provided water purification facilities to Cambodia in 2006 and seawater desalination facilities to An Binh Island in Vietnam in 2012. Considering the fact that Indonesia is lack of skilled experts, it opened a machine tool technical school in the country, running Machining Center and Turning Center Programming classes.

Doosan Group is also making an effort to create education environment and provide medical services in local communities. In China, the group built 26 Hope Elementary Schools from 2001 to 2012 in a bid to provide an education to children in isolated areas. In India, it runs “Wish Tree” program which sets up a sisterhood relationship with elementary schools in poor neighborhoods and improves the educational environment. In addition, Doosan provides free surgery for children to correct the cleft lip and palate and improves the nutrition of infants in Vietnam, while running the Q Health program which supports Quang Nam Central General Hospital, the largest medical center in Quang Nam of Vietnam.

Meanwhile, Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction's Social Volunteer Group consisting of 25 employees helped repair houses for the disadvantaged in Jinhae District, South Gyeongsang Province, on July 23 in Korea. The volunteer group repaired the house of the elderly in Jinhae District who has a son with severe diseases and takes care of granddaughter. At the hose, the lights did not turn on due to old electric wires, so the granddaughter, who goes to the middle school, had difficulties to study.

In addition, it painted the outer wall of the house and the front door and replaced old electric wires, making an impression to the local community.

An official from Doosan Heavy said, “We hope that volunteers’ beads of sweat can deliver hope and compassion to recipients. We will also continue to carry out volunteer programs to serve people in need in the future.”

 

 

 

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