S-OIL Fuels “Food Sharing Vehicles”

● S-OIL CEO Nasser Al-Mahasher donates fuel coupons worth 200 mil. won for vehicles of “food bank” in farming and fishing villages.  

S-OIL will support fuel expenses for the free food sharing business (food bank) for underprivileged people.

S-OIL CEO Nasser Al-Mahasher participated in the “2012 Mobile Food Market Launching Ceremony” at the plaza in front of the Seoul City Hall on May 3 and donated fuel coupons worth 200 mil. won to the Korea National Council on Social Welfare (KNCSW) (chairman: Cha Heung-bong) in order to support fuel expenses for food bank vehicles.

S-OIL’s donations will be delivered to 100 food banks in farming and fishing villages and will be used to fuel mobile food bank vehicles distributing groceries to low-income families, elderly people living alone, welfare facilities, and other people in need.    

“As a company providing energy needed by our society, we will continue to extend our helping hand with a sense of strong social responsibility so that groceries provided with love and compassion will be distributed to every corner of the country,” said S-OIL CEO Nasser Al-Mahasher. “While watching the Food Sharing of Love Event today, I came to understand the sentiment of the Korean people who regard people eating together as a ‘family’ and call them ‘family’ and I also felt the warmth of sharing of the Korean society.”, he added.

A food bank is a non-profit, charitable organization that distributes to welfare facilities and low-income families food donated by food manufacturers and individuals that have excess food generated during each process of production, distribution, sale, and consumption. Aside from the central organization, National Food Bank, 16 metropolitan food banks, and 457 community food banks nationwide are reaching out to 2 mil. disadvantaged people per year.