Kumho Engineering & Construction donates rice to children's center, receives handwritten thank-you letters

Rice sourced from partner village in Jeungpyeong-gun, North Chungcheong Province

Initiative supports local farms while backing children's welfare facility

Rice delivered to the Cheongam Community Children's Center through a donation by Kumho Engineering & Construction [Kumho Engineering & Construction]

Kumho Engineering & Construction has donated rice to the Cheongam Community Children's Center in Jongno-gu, Seoul, continuing its community outreach efforts. Children at the center responded with handwritten letters of thanks.

The company announced Wednesday that it had delivered rice grown in Sagok-ri village in Jeungpyeong-gun, North Chungcheong Province — a community linked to the company through a one-company-one-village partnership — to the Cheongam Community Children's Center.

The Cheongam Community Children's Center is a welfare facility that provides after-school tutoring and other services to local students. The center has maintained ties with Kumho Engineering & Construction since 2009, with the company carrying out support activities including facility renovations and agricultural product donations. Rice donations began in 2016.

This year, as in the previous year, children at the center sent handwritten letters to Kumho Engineering & Construction employees. In one letter, a student wrote: "I will make sure to finish every bowl of rice without leaving any behind, and when I grow up, I want to become someone who can help others."

Thank-you letters sent from the Cheongam Community Children's Center [Kumho Engineering & Construction]

The rice donated to the center was grown in Sagok-ri, Jeungpyeong-gun, North Chungcheong Province, the village with which Kumho Engineering & Construction holds its one-company-one-village partnership. The company purchases agricultural products from the village to support local farming households and donates the produce to the community.

The company also sells rice purchased from the partner village to its employees and donates the proceeds to the community, expanding its giving activities through this additional channel.

Further fundraising comes from a program that pools spare change from employee salaries and from an in-house flea market, with the proceeds going to charitable causes. The company also runs an ongoing education support program for teenagers from multicultural families.

"We are delighted that the one-company-one-village initiative can benefit both the children at the center and local farming households," a Kumho Engineering & Construction official said. "Having consistently continued our rice donations, we will keep up a variety of giving activities that allow businesses and society to thrive together."

Meanwhile, Kumho Engineering & Construction launched a new residential brand, Artera, in 2024. Its Hyeonggok Central Artera project in Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province, sold out in the first-priority apartment subscription round held Tuesday, demonstrating the brand's market competitiveness.

shy@heraldcorp.com