SPC Donates Happy Points to Children at Risk of Undernourishment During Summer Vacation
The SPC Group (Chairman Hur Young-in) announced on the September 12 that it donated Happy Points worth KRW 50 million to welfare facilities and children at risk of undernourishment to resolve the poorly-fed children issues during vacation.
The ‘SPC Happy Point Support Project’ is one of the SPC Group’s major social contribution programs through which Happy Points are provided for low-income children feared to skip meals during their vacation when school meals are not offered so that they can use like cash at the nation’s 6,600 SPC affiliated stores including Paris Baguette, Baskin Robbins, Dunkin’, Pascucci, and Bizeun.
Since 2017, the SPC Group has provided happy points worth KRW 650 million in total to nearly 14,000 children over 14 times every vacation. This summer vacation, Happy Point cards were provided to 320 low-income children and 60 child welfare facilities in Chungcheong-do and Jeolla-do, which are facing budgetary and financial shortages in meal support.
Park Soo-bong, Head of the Seoul Regional Department 3 of ChildFund Korea, said. “The donation of Happy Points, which can be used in many stores, is a great help to children who have to prepare meals for themselves and are exposed to the risk of underfeeding during vacation. Our foundation will spare no efforts in supporting children to have a healthy and safe summer vacation in collaboration with the SPC Group.”
An official from SPC Happy Foundation said, “We hope that with Happy Points, which can be conveniently used like cash, will help children at risk of undernourishment to spend their vacation without worrying about meals. SPC will make proactive efforts to spread its ‘culture of sharing’ by discovering areas and those in need of help.”
In the meantime, SPC Happy Foundation is running social contribution projects based on the Group’s philosophy of sharing and coexistence as reflected in the phrase of ‘Sharing bread is a meal, but sharing technology is a dream’, and the ‘Sangmidang spirit’. The foundation practices ‘sharing’ through social projects that provide donations and economic support such as ‘Happy Point Support for Poorly-fed Children’ and ‘Food Bank’, and operates ‘My Dream Patissier’ and ‘Happy Bakery’ as part of ‘mutual growth’ activities with a focus on technology education and support for self-reliance.
