KT&G will dispatch ‘Hope-boosting Correspondents’ made of 39 undergraduate students to Cambodia until January 22, 2016.
The team has been selected from ‘Sangsang Volunteers’, an undergraduate volunteer group sponsored by KT&G, or student members of KT&G welfare foundation.
The team will carry out volunteer work including building or renovating schools, helping the children with education, and providing personal hygiene class with NGOs on site in Siem Reap in Cambodia. The team also will provide a variety of cultural experience to Cambodian students, prepared by the volunteers themselves as a way of talent donation .
KT&G has sent a total sum of 900 volunteers who made 33 trips to Cambodia since 2005. The company donated education facilities by building floating preschools on the water and libraries.
KT&G has provided medical support in Cambodia, Uzbekistan, and Mongolia as well. The company has actively acted for the benefit of international society. For example, in Indonesia, the company has improved hosing environment in economically challenged area via ‘Sangsang Village’ contribution and established ‘Korean language center’ in Jakarta, which was the first case by a Korean company.