Exchange Launches University Student Volunteer Group to Support Education at Child Welfare Facilities

The Korea Exchange announced on the 23rd that it has provided 210 million KRW for the financial character education project to educate children in social welfare facilities on financial knowledge, and held the inauguration ceremony for the '14th KRX University Student Financial Education Volunteer Group' with 50 university students who will carry out financial education volunteer activities.

Hwang Woo-kyung, Secretary General of the KRX National Happiness Foundation (sixth from the left in the first row), and university students are taking a commemorative photo at the 14th KRX University Student Financial Education Volunteer Group Launch Ceremony.
[Photo by Korea Exchange]

Through this project, play-based financial character education will be provided to children who lack educational opportunities. Since 2011 until last year, the Exchange has trained 1,293 university student volunteers and provided education to 18,583 children.

This year, 50 university student volunteers will be dispatched to about 600 children at 51 local children's centers to conduct 10 sessions of financial and character education each.

Jung Eun-bo, Chairman of the Korea Exchange, said, "Since the role of the university student volunteer group is very important in helping children form proper values, I hope they become mentors who have a positive influence." He added, "The Exchange plans to continue supporting various educational activities so that children can easily understand finance and economics and grow up healthily."