S-OIL Helps Female Migrants in Multicultural Families to Find Happiness
● S-OIL makes a donation to the Women Migrants Human Rights Center.
- The donation will be used for counselors’ activities and daily necessities for female migrants who left the center.
# Dong Ae-hwa (41) is a Chinese migrant who is married to a Korean man with two children. For the past two years, she has provided counseling and interpretation and translation services for Chinese female migrants at the Women Migrants Human Rights Center. She is snowed under with work every day, conducting phone counseling, document translation, and even interpretation at courts. But she feels rewarded by listening to the pains and wounds from women in a difficult situation like her and helping them to seek ways to resolve such difficulty.
Unlike the past years in which she was unable to receive financial support for her activity, starting this year she can more stably help female migrants in pain to find happiness with the help of S-OIL, which decided to give financial support for such counselors.
On May 29, S-OIL (CEO: Nasser Al-Mahasher) donated 50 mil. won to the Women Migrants Human Rights Center (representative: Han Kuk-yeom) in Sungin-dong, Jongro-gu, Seoul to reach out to female migrants suffering domestic violence as part of its “Happy Together Campaign for Multicultural Families.”
The Women Migrants Human Rights Center runs four shelters for female migrants and their children suffering domestic violence with the support of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family. The donation given by S-OIL will be spent in supporting counselors and interpreters/translators who help female migrants to return to society. It is also used to offer daily necessities to those who left the facility so that they can stand on their own feet.
“With the number of international marriages reaching 30,000 per year and multicultural families increasing sharply, we decided to make this donation to help a growing number of female migrants suffering domestic violence to attain their mental stability and to return to society,” said S-OIL Senior Vice President Lee Chang-jae. “We hope that our donation will contribute to protecting female migrants’ human rights and helping them to create happy families.”
