JW Holdings, Employees Unite Steps to Donate for People with Walking Disabilities

JW Holdings announced on the 20th that it donated the funds raised through the employee step donation campaign "JW Joy Walking" to the Gwacheon City Disabled Welfare Center in Gyeonggi Province on the 19th. Seonggi Jeong, Head of Management at JW Holdings, Seongkwon Han, CEO of JW Holdings, Gyeyong Shin, Mayor of Gwacheon, and Hakjun Lee, Director of Gwacheon City Disabled Welfare Center (from left), are posing for a commemorative photo at the donation ceremony. (Photo by JW Holdings)

[Asia Economy Reporter Chunhee Lee] JW Holdings announced on the 20th that it has donated funds raised through the employee step donation campaign ‘JW Joy-Walking’ to the Gwacheon City Disabled Welfare Center in Gyeonggi Province.

At the donation ceremony held the previous day, Han Sung-kwon, CEO of JW Holdings, handed over a donation of 30 million KRW to Lee Hak-jun, director of the Gwacheon City Disabled Welfare Center. The donation will be used to produce special shoes for disabled people who have difficulty walking. These shoes are custom-made to fit the individual’s foot shape and are more comfortable to wear than regular shoes, designed for disabled individuals facing walking difficulties due to rare diseases, developmental delays, severe disabilities, or foot deformities.

The JW Joy-Walking campaign is part of JW Group’s ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) management initiative called the ‘JW Green Campaign.’ It is a step donation program involving employees from JW Holdings, JW Choongwae Pharmaceutical, JW Shinyak, JW Life Science, JW Medical, and 10 affiliated companies. In May, JW Choongwae Pharmaceutical donated 50 million KRW raised through the Season 1 campaign to the Gwacheon City Disabled Welfare Center.

This Season 2 campaign included not only step donations but also ‘plogging.’ Plogging is a compound word from the Swedish ‘plocka upp,’ meaning ‘to pick up,’ and the English ‘jogging,’ referring to the act of picking up trash while jogging. Since October, 1,208 JW Group employees and their families have participated in Season 2, recording a total of 230 million steps and successfully achieving the target of 200 million steps.

At the donation ceremony, JW Holdings was recognized by Gwacheon City for its contribution to the development of the Gwacheon community through JW Joy-Walking and received the Gwacheon Mayor’s Award.

Han Sung-kwon, CEO of JW Holdings, said, “I hope the steps of JW Group employees become steps of hope connecting the world and people with walking disabilities,” and added, “We will continue to carry out social contribution activities not only for the local community but also for the environment.”