Samsung 80th Anniversary - Shares Love & Care With Its Community

Samsung 80th Anniversary - Shares Love & Care With Its Community 

Now I didn’t even know Samsung is already 80 years ‘young’. Not until I received this email on one of their CSR effort, that I realised this fact. Setting a positive environment, responding to people’s needs and helping them to live better is what Samsung strives to achieve in giving back to society.

Samsung 80th Anniversary - Shares Love & Care With Its Community 

Many underprivileged areas are in need of clean water, sanitary common spaces, education and the support to hear them out – and Samsung is committed to providing solutions with its annual Love & Care corporate social responsibility programme. Held in conjunction with Samsung’s 80th anniversary this year, 80 Samsung employees volunteered to visit the community at Kampung Ulu Tual, an orang asli village in Pahang that was ‘adopted’ by Samsung back in 2015. At the one-day programme, volunteers interacted with the village people, provided basic educational sessions and distributed basic and essential necessities. 

Village Children

Samsung Love & Care Programme

Apart from providing them the necessities; this time round, Samsung wanted to instil a deep appreciation on sustaining the environment around them. Therefore, an activity of planting 80 trees with the village children of Kampung Ulu Tual was in the line-up to create a greener environment for them to live in.

Samsung volunteers taking part in planting 80 trees with the villagers of Kampung Ulu Tual in hopes of creating a greener environment for them to live in.

Besides that, Samsung’s volunteer team utilised Samsung television for an educational session. Through screen mirroring technology, learning materials were projected and pop quizzes were conducted using Smart TV, in hopes that this will stimulate a positive learning attitude that will pave a wider path for a better future. This is part of Samsung’s ongoing efforts to increase literacy rates among the people of Kampung Ulu Tual, especially the young children.

Children from Kampung Ulu Tual happily engaging with Samsung volunteers during the pop quiz session

Happy faces all round

Before leaving the village, Samsung volunteers participated in a little bit of fun by having Love & Care’s annual ‘Tug of War’ match with the villagers of Kampung Ulu Tual. Monthly rations were also distributed to 163 households of Kampung Ulu Tual for the villagers’ daily consumption. “We have been incredibly fortunate over the years, and it’s only natural that we give back in any way we can. I’m excited for what the future holds and I hope that we continue to constantly keep our surrounding communities in mind no matter where we are or what we do,” Mr Kim concluded.

Held in conjunction with Samsung’s 80th anniversary this year, 80 Samsung volunteers made a visit to Kampung Ulu Tual, a small orang asli village in Pahang.

The Samsung Love & Care programme was previously known as Samsung’s Nanum Village initiative. The programme commenced earlier in 2015 as part of Samsung’s local Corporate Citizenship efforts.