S. Korea’s S-Oil charity to keep poor people warm

South Korean petroleum company S-Oil donated 200 million won ($173,114) to the Korea National Council on Social Welfare with the objective of providing heating oil to low-income households in the country.

Under the company’s ‘Hope to You’ Campaign, recipients consist of 200 households with solitary senior citizens and grandparents raising grandchildren will get fuel coupons worth 1 million ($865.81) each.  The beneficiaries were selected based on welfare institutes’ recommendations, stated the company release.

“I was quite heart-broken to hear that there are neighbors out there going through the cold winter without heating oil due to financial difficulty,” said S-Oil CEO Nasser Al-Mahasher.

CEO Al-Mahasher put on a gas station attendant uniform and he himself delivered heating oil to beneficiaries.

“I’m pleased that I could deliver S-OIL’s heating oil to neighbors in real need and hope that our little help will be conveyed as a gesture of a warm hope to needy neighbour,” he further said.

S-Oil has been also organizing another charity work called ‘Service Station Sharing N Campaign’, a project which involves company officials and employees making donations and rendering volunteer work at welfare centers.

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