The Samsung Hope Stepping Stone Middle, which helps youth growing older out of care, has been established within the Incheon area. The brand new middle will present a basis for independence to younger individuals in want inside the Incheon area, together with financial independence and academic assist.
Samsung Group held the Hope Stepping Stone Incheon Middle opening ceremony and the Hope Stepping Stone tenth anniversary commemorative occasion on the Bupyeong-gu Youth Coaching Middle in Incheon Metropolis on Dec. 11. The Hope Stepping Stone Middle has expanded to a system of 16 facilities throughout 13 metropolitan cities and provinces nationwide, 10 years after first establishing its base in Busan in 2015.
The Hope Stepping Stone venture started with concepts and donations from Samsung Electronics executives and workers to mark the twentieth anniversary of the “Samsung New Administration” declaration in 1995. The middle focuses not solely on offering residential house to youth growing older out of care but additionally on imparting life expertise and knowledge. Youth growing older out of care refers to younger individuals who should start residing independently after age 18 following safety in baby welfare amenities, group properties, and comparable establishments. Younger individuals can obtain complete training obligatory for independence on the middle, together with every day residing expertise reminiscent of cooking, cleansing, and organizing storage, fundamental financial training together with monetary information and asset administration, and complete profession counseling and job placement providers. Up to now, 54,611 younger individuals have benefited from this system.
The Hope Stepping Stone venture, which started by offering housing to youth growing older out of care, developed into “Hope Stepping Stone 2.0” in 2023, specializing in serving to younger individuals obtain financial independence. Hope Stepping Stone 2.0 vocational training actively makes use of the skilled capabilities and academic infrastructure of Samsung associates to assist the enhancement of experience and capabilities of youth growing older out of care. To assist younger individuals collaborating in instructional programs deal with their research, Samsung Electronics Human Assets Improvement Institute and Samsung Heavy Industries Technical Coaching Institute are opened to offer single-occupancy lodging and meals. Over the previous three years, 241 youth growing older out of care beneath age 34 participated in vocational training programs, and 79 out of 167 graduates (47.3%) achieved employment at their desired firms.
Choi Eun-jae, who went by way of the Hope Stepping Stone 2.0 program, mentioned, “Via the Hope Stepping Stone 2.0 instructional course, I realized new issues and have become a bit extra mature by assembly individuals who had been in comparable circumstances,” including, “I acquired many certifications by way of buying specialised information and constant examine, and in addition succeeded find employment.” Choi at the moment works as an data know-how (IT) safety officer at a fireplace station in an area space.
Samsung additionally operates psychological assist packages for younger individuals going by way of the employment course of. The “Stepping Stone Household” marketing campaign, which started in 2022, is a program the place Samsung Electronics executives and workers present mentoring to youth getting ready for independence. A hundred percent of collaborating worker volunteers have skilled {qualifications} reminiscent of teaching counseling and counselor certifications. The Stepping Stone Household, which began with 30 Samsung Electronics executives and workers, expanded this 12 months to executives and workers of all Samsung associates, with a complete of 270 Stepping Stone Household pairs at the moment persevering with their connections by way of mentoring.
Samsung Electronics additionally obtained a presidential commendation on the fifth Republic of Korea Good Donation Awards on Dec. 8, which acknowledges firms and people who apply constant sharing actions in numerous fields of society, in recognition of their contributions to selling the Hope Stepping Stone venture.
Park Seung-hee, president of company relations at Samsung Electronics, mentioned, “Independence is achieved by including sensible assist for housing, training, and employment together with robust surrounding assist to younger individuals’s potential, and Hope Stepping Stone has created such adjustments and can proceed to do its finest for youth independence by way of 16 facilities sooner or later.”
Samsung is conducting youth training actions beneath the imaginative and prescient “Let’s Go Collectively to the Future! Enabling Folks.” Youth education-focused actions embody packages that assist younger individuals to maximise their potential, reminiscent of Samsung Youth SW·AI Academy, Samsung Hope Stepping Stone, Samsung Dream Class, Samsung Blue Elephant, and Expertise Olympics Technical Schooling.
