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[Korea Economic Daily] Sae-A Trading, creating education facilities in Haiti, and donating to slums in Indonesia

Sae-A Trading (CEO Ha Jeong-su, pictured) has been carrying out various socially responsible activities under its slogan, ‘The more you wear Sae-A, the more Sae-A shares’. Sae-A has established teams exclusively responsible for social contribution in all of its overseas subsidiaries, and they have been carrying out activities that meet the needs of the countries in which they are located. The key body involved is the ‘Sae-A Foundation’, which was established by the Group in 2015. It is an organization that contributes to the local communities of the countries that the company has entered, as well as aid their economic development.

The representative social contribution activity that Sae-A has carried out is the ‘Sae-A School’ established in the Central American nation of Haiti in 2014. This school began as a nursery and elementary school and then expanded to include a middle school and high school as well, and it currently provides free high quality education programs and lunches to some 600 students.

Each overseas subsidiary not only contributes to the local economy by creating a large number of jobs, but they also carry out charitable activities for the underprivileged in local communities, as well as activities to help preserve the environment. The production subsidiary in Vietnam, which suffers from wide income inequality, carries out activities every month to visit nearby child care facilities and sisterhood organizations. In Indonesia, the local staff have been carrying out a program since 2011 to personally make some 1000 lunchboxes and care packages each month to donate to residents living in nearby slums, whose lives have been affected by natural disasters and economic difficulties. Donations are also given to local schools for the underprivileged.

These activities have carried on as much as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Nicaragua last year, working with the country’s disaster management agency (SINAPRED), some 3.5 million US dollars (approx. 4 billion won) worth of clothes were donated to help towards COVID-19 recovery efforts. The subsidiary in Guatemala donated 57,000 sanitary masks for low income households, as well as some 6,000 free relief kits for households of those infected.

A Sae-A Trading representative said, “As a global leading company, we are looking to make every effort to be socially responsible, and going forward we plan to carry out various humanitarian activities for all of our global neighbors to contribute towards peace among mankind.”

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