Members of Samsung C&T social service team gives a key to  a house they built overseas to the residents who will occupy the new house.

(left photo). The Social Service Team  gives a sheep to a villager so that he can grow it.(right photo)

Samsung C&T Co., together with Korea Habitat, conducted social service activities in a remote village in the Pasirhalang district in Bandung region in Indonesia in September.

 The company designated the village as its social service area in October last year and so far has repaired or constructed from the ground up 110 houses. It has also expanded the number of portable water supply systems from four to seven in the village, the company said.

 In addition, the company dispatched 160 of its employees to the Youngdong region in Gangwon Province, which is situated on Korea’s East Coast, to help repair damage from heavy snow in February. The company had to mobilize a number of heavy equipment to remove the snow and repair the damages in the isolated villages in the region including fork cranes, dump trucks and other heavy equipment.

 The social service team worked on removing the heavy snow that covered the roads leading to the villages, which in many cases are inhabited by an elderly population, folks who were in dire need of help from outside their villages.

 The company began its social service for Gangdong County in Gangnung, Gangwon Province, from October by laying floor mats in the homes where elderly residents live alone. They also conducted other works to improve the surroundings and provided daily necessities. The company has been providing its social services as part of its strategy to be a leading global firm.

 The company has been engaged in diverse social service activities around the world to faithfully adhere to its reputation as a leading construction firm in the world. The representative project is a primary school that the company set up in the Rembang region in central Indonesia to help achieve the dreams of the primary school children in the region. The new school now has all kinds of sanitary facilities like washrooms, a tap water system and libraries in six structures. Some of the buildings were very dilapidated before Samsung C&T arrived. Some 100 children and the residents in the village Dadapan can now benefit from the new school and its ambience facilities.

 Since 2000, Samsung C&T and the Korea Habitat have been improving the lives for the residents of isolated villages in such countries as Mongolia, the Philippines, India, and among others by extending its social service activities overseas in 2006. They so far have built some 287 “Houses of Love” in those countries.

 From last year, Samsung C&T began to build educational infrastructure under the Dream Tomorrow Project, designed to provide high-level opportunities for children to help them achieve their dreams and hopes.

 This summer, Samsung C&T’s social service teams travelled to the countryside to help rice farmers, especially during the flooding season when they had an acute need for help. Some teams brought their family members as they needed more helping hands during the flood season.

 From June, 66 Samsung C&T employees have been in Tanbu County in Boeun-gun, North Chungcheong Province, to help households harvest onions. The county has sisterhood ties with the company. On June 20, the employees of the company’s Plant Operation Department conducted cleaning work on beaches and in other coastal areas as part of its “environmental cleansing” service in and around Kangdong County of Gangneung, Gangwon Province, which has sisterhood ties with the department.

Members of In addition, Samsung C&T’s workers took up various social service activities at villages near their jobsites. Tasks included repairing roads, checking safety facilities and other diverse social service activities.