LG Innotek said on the 29th that cumulative participants in its employee online donation program "Inno Dream Funding" have surpassed 26,000.
"Inno Dream Funding" is an online donation campaign in which employees voluntarily donate to help children in vulnerable groups in the local community. When children in need are selected in the local communities where the business sites are located and their stories are posted on the company's social contribution portal, employees donate sponsorship funds and the collected amount is delivered to beneficiary households. In its fourth year, annual participation this year exceeded 10,000 people, and the annual amount raised increased by about 30% from a year earlier.
LG Innotek introduced a new social contribution program this year called "I Dream Up (Dream Up)." With the aim of supporting children's healthy growth and a brighter future, the name combines the meanings of eye and kids.
LG Innotek, through the program's flagship activity, the "child and youth blindness prevention project," covered the full expense of ophthalmology exam fees as well as surgeries and treatment for eye diseases such as strabismus and epiblepharon for 400 children and teenagers who had fallen into a medical blind spot due to the burden of treatment costs.
It is also running the "Junior Pine Classroom." The "Junior Pine Classroom" provides elementary school students with hands-on lessons on materials and components topics such as semiconductors and Autonomous Driving, and supports the renovation of aging classrooms at care institutions and learning equipment such as electronic whiteboards and beam projectors. A cumulative 16,000 children have participated in the materials and components science classes through this year. The learning environments of 53 care institutions and about 1,900 children and teenagers have been improved.
LG Innotek was selected for the sixth straight year as a corporations subject to the "Local Community Contribution Recognition Program," organized by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and others this year. It also received a commendation from the Minister of Health and Welfare at the "13th Korea Sharing National Awards" last year.
Chung Yoo-kyung, a lead at LG Innotek's LiDAR development team who participated in "Inno Dream Funding," said, "I recently joined a campaign to help a child with a congenital rare disease, and it was good to know precisely who received my donation and how it could help," adding, "With a single click, you can conveniently take part in social contribution without a complicated process, and you can pitch in with a small amount, so there's less burden."