Shinsegae Food Donates Dolls and Ready Meals to Facilities for Single Mothers and Children

On the 3rd, employees of Shinsegae Food donated 100 sets of upcycled Gangchi dolls made from cotton reprocessed from discarded PET bottles and ready-to-eat soup sets including Olban Samgyetang at the Shinsegae Food headquarters in Seongdong-gu, Seoul, to a facility for single mothers and children. (Photo by Shinsegae Food)

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Seung-jin] Shinsegae Food announced on the 3rd that its employees donated 100 sets of Gangchi dolls handmade through remote volunteering and Olban soup and stew convenience meal sets to facilities for single mothers and children.

Shinsegae Food has been seeking various ways to support single mothers and infants amid the decline in donations to welfare facilities such as facilities for single mothers due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic. Among them, they determined that convenience meals that can reduce the cooking burden for busy single mothers juggling work and childcare, and toys that can provide emotional stability for children, were necessary.

Accordingly, Shinsegae Food prepared 100 sets each of Olban soup and stew convenience meal sets, including Samgyetang, a preferred health food in summer, and dolls for children, and delivered them to the Seoul Single-Parent Family Support Center located in Dongjak-gu, Seoul. The dolls delivered that day were upcycled products handmade by Shinsegae Food employees using stuffing made from recycled PET bottles, adding significance ahead of Environment Day.

A Shinsegae Food official said, “We hope that regular remote volunteering and sharing activities involving employees will provide a small help to the daily lives of neighbors in blind spots,” and added, “We will continue to fulfill our corporate social responsibility through various social contribution activities.”

Meanwhile, in December last year, Shinsegae Food delivered hope kits containing COVID-19 hygiene products and Olban convenience meals handmade by employees to the Green Umbrella Children’s Foundation. Last month, they continued social contribution activities to help vulnerable groups by donating Olban old-fashioned fried chicken and tumbler sets for children in childcare facilities.