The Export-Import Bank of Korea (www.koreaexim.go.kr, “Korea Eximbank”) announced on February 19 that its social contribution program ‘Seed of Hope’ donated KRW 40 million to a clinic for foreign workers run by ‘Love Sharing Global Village’, a welfare center for immigrants.

Korea Eximbank Deputy President Nam ki-sub visited the clinic for foreign workers located in the Garibong-dong area of Guro-gu to deliver the donation to the ‘Love Sharing Global Village’ President Kim Hae-sung.

Deputy President Nam commented at the occasion, “We hope this would help medically underserved foreign workers and immigrants in however small a way. Korea Eximbank will continue to fulfill its social responsibility through various activities aimed at improving the lives of foreign workers, immigrant women, and multicultural families.”

The donation will be used to hire medical staff, purchase pharmaceuticals, and maintain medical equipment at the clinic.

The clinic attached to ‘Loving Sharing Global Village’ opened in 2004 to treat immigrant workers and ethnic Korean Chinese immigrants without health insurance coverage.

More than 400 thousand foreign workers have received free treatment from the clinic, which operates services in internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and orthopedics on a day-to-day basis and special day clinics in other fields of medicine with the help of volunteers.

Korea Eximbank has been making annual donations to organizations run by ‘Loving Sharing Global Village’ including the clinic, a soup kitchen for immigrants, and a multicultural alternative school starting from 2007.

In October last year, the bank donated KRW 30 million in emergency aid to help ’Loving Sharing Global Village’ rebuild its soup kitchen that burned down in a fire and treat the victims.