LG provides donations to hospital, orphanage and old home
DHAKA, Sept. 18, (NsNewsWire) — LG Electronics Bangladesh has come forward to help the country’s orphanage, old home and a hospital. The multinational electronics company handed over donations of Mosquito Away ACs worth of 10 thousand USD each to Ad-Din Hospital Dhaka, Chotomoni Nibash and Bangladesh Association for the Aged & Institute of Geriatric Medicine (BAAIGM) as part of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
The donations has been given in a program held today (Sunday), September 17, 2017 at Good Neighbor School in Dhaka. Executive Member of BAAIGM Moshiur Rahman, Director of Ad-Din Hospital Dr. Nahid Yasmin and Deputy Superintendant of Chotomoni Nibash received the donations on behalf of their organizations from the hand of Edward Kim, Managing Director of LG Electronics Bangladesh, Hyun Jin Jeon, CSR specialists of LG Head Quarter, Minseok Kim, CSR team leader of LG Head Quarter and Jeung Sek Kim, Country Director of Good Neighbors Bangladesh.
Edward Kim, Managing Director of LG Electronics Bangladesh said, “LG Electronics Bangladesh always believes in sustainable development. We want to make improvement in underprivileged and helpless peoples’ life so that they can bring changes in society like others. LG is not only doing business in Bangladesh but also making changes in peoples’ life. As part of that this time we provided Mosquito Away ACs in Ad-Din Hospital Dhaka, Chotomoni Nibash and Bangladesh Association for the Aged & Institute of Geriatric Medicine (BAAIGM).
He also said, “Bangladesh, specially Dhaka suffers mosquito-borne disease every year. Diseases like Dengue and chikunguniya take out human vitality. LG brought a solution to prevent mosquito diseases by introducing Mosquito Away AC and TV. These products are certified by nationally and internationally like WFP, BCSIR. Besides marketing, we provided Mosquito Away AC to different organizations as part of our social responsibility.”
LG has carried many CSR activities recently. It established LG IT Academy for underprivileged children in Jaago School, set up LG Trust for disabled students of Dhaka University, implemented good water project to ensure the supply of pure water of remote area. The company provided Acs to some organizations including icddr’b.
Head of Consumer Electronics of LG Electronics Bangladesh Mahmudul Hasan, Se Yeon Hwang, Ananda Kumar Das and Kilion Kishor Das respectively Managing Director, Director and Project Manager of Good Neighbors Bangladesh were present on the occasion.
source: press release