SPC Holds Donation Agreement Ceremony for ‘SPC Happy Fund’ and Art Exhibition to Celebrate Day of People with Disabilities
– SPC has offered a total of KRW 2.2 billion for rehabilitation treatments and other medical expenses to 1,400 disabled children and their families since 2012
– Hosts ‘Dream, in Bloom’, an invitational art exhibition for young artists with disabilities over a week at the Paris Croissant Store in Seoul Arts Center
SPC (CEO Hur Young-in) announced on April 17 that it held the ‘Donation Ceremony for SPC Happy Fund’ to support children with disabilities and an art exhibition for disabled youth, in collaboration with the Purme Foundation (Chairman Kang Ji-won), at the Paris Croissant Store in Seoul Arts Center.
The ‘SPC Happy Fund’, launched in 2012, is a program in which the company creates and donates a matching fund through the participation of SPC executives and employees donating a certain amount from their monthly salary. Over the past 12 years, the fund raised a total of KRW 2.2 billion and provided support for as many as 1,400 children with disabilities and their families.
This year, SPC plans to donate KRW 200 million in total to the Purme Foundation, a non-profit foundation that helps people with disabilities rehabilitate and become self-reliant, to provide financial support for rehabilitation treatment costs, medical expenses, assistive devices, special ability and aptitude education, and family trips over 100 children with disabilities.
In particular, this year’s event features a special art exhibition titled ‘Dream, in Bloom’ which will be held until April 23, 2023 and showcase art works by four young people with disabilities to reflect on the meaning of ‘Day of People with Disabilities’ and to help young people with disabilities achieve their dreams and careers. This exhibition will be held at the Paris Croissant store in the Seoul Arts Center, a venue offered in the courtesy of the Center.
Paek Kyung-hak, Executive Director of Purme Foundation, expressed his gratitude by saying “The continued support from SPC and its executives and employees will be a great help to disabled children and their families who could not afford proper treatment due to economic difficulties. Most of all, this year’s exhibition is more meaningful as it gives young and disabled people who have talents but have not won recognition the opportunity to realize their dreams.”
An official from the SPC Happy Foundation said, “Thanks to the warm hearts and active participation of executives and employees willing to help the underprivileged, the ‘SPC Happy Fund’ program has been unwaveringly maintained. We hope that our small devotions will get together and serve as an opportunity to deliver dreams and hopes to families of children and adolescents with disabilities.”
Meanwhile, the SPC Happy Foundation plans to conduct various activities in celebration of the Day of People with Disabilities, including delivering a special lecture on confectionery and baking techniques for patissiers with disabilities at the sheltered workshop ‘Soul Bakery’ operated by ‘Aduck’s House’, a living facility for the disabled, on April 21, 2023.
