The 2016 donation ceremony of the KUMOHO TIRE Future Belongs to Children Funds of China Friendship Foundation for Peace and Development (CFFPD) was held in Beijing on February 26th, 2016. Mme. Lin Yi, Director of CFFPD, met with Mr. CHO JAE SUK, Chairman of the Board of the KUMHO TIRE CHINA CO.,INC and his delegation; during the ceremony, Director Lin Yi issued a donation certificate to Mr. CHO JAE SUK
Director Lin Yi thanked KUMHO TIRE CHINA CO.,INC for supporting Chinese special education cause over the years. She hoped that the both sides would develop more public programs in the future and help more handicapped children. She also expressed the wishes that KUMHO TIRE CHINA CO.,INC could make more contributions to people-to-people exchanges between China and Korea.
Chairman CHO JAE SUK said, it is a great pleasure to make contributions to the Chinese welfare cause, and he would continue making great efforts on the friendship between China and Korea.
Mme. Jia Lin, Secretary General of the CFFPD, signed 2016 funds donation agreement with Chairman CHO JAE SUK.
The KUMHO TIRE Future Belongs to Children Funds was set up by KUMHO TIRE CHINA CO., INC in 2012. The aim of the funds is to develop mentally handicapped children in music, dance, and so on. The funds are also used for social integration education for handicapped children and training courses for teachers from Special Education Schools. So far, KUMHO TIRE CHINA CO.,INC has totally donated 280 million RMB, and supported 9 Special Education Schools in Beijing, Nanjing and Tianjin in all. More than 4500 persons were benefited.
KUMHO TIRE CHINA CO.,INC donated additional 1 billion Won (about 548,000 RMB) to the KUMHO TIRE Future Belongs to Children Funds.
Mr. Sun Xueqing, Deputy Director General of the Department of Asian and African Affairs of CPAFFC, attended the above meeting.