Shincheonji Volunteer Group donates 300 blood donor cards for Korea Childhood Leukemia Foundation at a paediatric cancer ward, Gwangju🇰🇷

Shincheonji Volunteer Group (SVG) continues to make national headlines for their outreach efforts in communities throughout the Republic of Korea. SVG belongs to Shincheonji Church of Jesus, The Temple of the Tabernacle of The Testimony (hereafter 'Shincheonji church') and has 200,000 volunteers in 72 branches worldwide that serve communities through a range of projects, campaigns and initiatives focused on environmental conservation, blood donation, provision of medical aid, war veterans' support, care for the elderly and public service. In the first half of 2019, a total of 60,000 volunteers catered to the needs of 80,000 people.

In the most recent news, the news agency 'Cheonji Ilbo' published a report about SVG's visit to a paediatric cancer ward in Gwangju, Korea (link provided below). The head of SVG's Gwangju branch, Mr. Gye-seung Lee (as seen in photo above), along with SVG volunteers, visited Gwangju Naeum Cancer Ward in Seo District, Gwangju on May 5th, donating 300 blood donor cards for the Korea Childhood Leukemia Foundation; with donations used to reduce the cost of blood transfusion. This is significant for a country battling a national blood shortage,which SVG has been working to address through collaboration with the Korean Red Cross.

Gwangju's Naeum Children's Cancer Ward and the Korea Childhood Leukemia Foundation were founded in 2017 and provide a variety of services including financial support, psychological counselling, group programmes, childhood cancer information, and fundraising projects to benefit child cancer patients and their families. Mrs. Jeong Ok of Children's Cancer Ward said, “Some 1500 children are diagnosed with cancer and treated here every year. SVG's donations are particularly helpful".

SVG's Gwangju branch has been taking the lead in creating a national culture of regular blood-giving. SVG's other initiatives and campaigns, most of which serve communities nationwide, and some overseas, include the following:-
- ‘Protect the green nature’: an environmental preservation campaign)
- ’Beautiful senior, Bravo life!’ cultural programme for senior citizens
- ’Love for all nations and Sharing of peace’: for reunification of the Korean peninsula
- 'Wall-Painting Stories with Hope’: converting thousands of kilometres of dilapidated murals
- 'Driving while drowsy Prevention': helping underline the dangers of driving under fatigue
- ‘Shincheonji Multicultural Center’: spreading traditional Korean culture to homesick foreign residents

To read the Cheonji Ilbo news report of SVG's service at the paediatric cancer ward in Gwangju, Korea, please click here⇨https://bit.ly/2lIEqo8 (Korean only)