S-OIL offers 300 million won in school expenses to children of fallen firefighters

- S-OIL offers 3 million won in school expenses to each of 100 children of firefighters who died in the line of duty or retired due to serious injuries.
- S-OIL provides the financial support under the “Hero Firefighters Support Program” that it launched in 2006.

S-OIL Corporation (CEO: Ahmed A. Subaey) held a “ceremony to donate school expenses to children of fallen firefighters” at Yongsan Fire Station, Seoul on July 28. The donation ceremony was attended by National Emergency Management Agency Deputy Administrator Li Ki-hwan, Korea National Council on Social Welfare Head Kim Deuk-rin, and family members of firefighters.

At the ceremony, S-OIL contributed a total of 300 million won (3 million won per person) to 100 children of fallen firefighters who died in the line of duty or retired due to disability during firefighting and emergency rescue activities.

“We hope that our little donation delivered through the Hero Firefighters Support Program will serve as encouragement and consolation for the families of firefighters. It is our sincere wish that this could be of a little help to children of fallen firefighters in concentrating on their studies, having great hopes for their future and growing into leaders of future society under the warm love of society,” S-OIL CEO Subaey said at the ceremony. “As a faithful companion of firefighter families, we’ll continue to try to stabilize firefighter families’ living conditions and boost the morale of firefighters,” he added.

S-OIL has implemented the Hero Firefighters Support Program since 2006 to support firefighters who willingly sacrifice themselves to protect people’s lives and property even in dangerous working conditions. Under the program, the company carries out a variety of activities each year to help stabilize firefighter families’ living conditions. The activities to stabilize firefighter families’ living conditions and boost the morale of firefighters include awarding prizes to exemplary firefighters, offering consolation money to injured firefighters and families of fallen firefighters, providing school expenses to children of fallen fighters.