Part of Environmental Protection Efforts
SK Innovation said on June 9 that it has donated 100 million won to MangLub, a social enterprise in Vietnam undertaking a forest restoration project.
The donated money was raised through green points, which were donated by visitors to SK Innovation's booth at CES 2022 held in Las Vegas in January this year.
A donation ceremony was held in Cau Ngang District of Tra Vinh Province, Vietnam, on June 9 (local time) in the presence of Nguyen Trung Hoang, vice chairman of People’s Committee in Tra Vinh Province, MangLub CEO Kim Hang-seok, and Lim Su-gil, head of SK Innovation’s Value Creation Center.
MangLub plans to use the donation for a mangrove reforestation project in Tra Vinh Province, which it has been undertaking together with SK Innovation.
SK Innovation launched the reforestation program in 2018. It has thus far planted hundreds of thousands of mangrove trees, restoring 113ha of land, through the project.
“Since 2018, SK Innovation has helped restore a total of 113 ha of mangrove forest in Vietnam’s Cau Nguang County and other areas,” said Nguyen Trung Hoang. “Representing Vietnamese people in Tra Vinh Province, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to SK Innovation for its valuable interest in the project and contribution.”
After the donation ceremony, about 30 people, including officials from the Ho Chi Minh City branch of SK Innovation and SK Earthon, their local partners, and officials from the Tra Vinh Province government, planted 1,000 mangrove seedlings in Cau Nangang County.
Meanwhile, SK innovation had carried out the mangrove reforestation project in Vietnam and Myanmar since 2018. Its employees directly participated in planting seedlings. In the past two years, due to the spread of COVID-19, mangrove planting had been done only by local Vietnamese officials and residents.