NongHyup Bank helps the school with desks
Sikandrabad. As part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives in India, the South Korean NongHyup Bank, also known as NH Bank has reached out to help the needy students of a government-run school in a northern Indian state Uttar Pradesh.
On July 5, the bank’s staff members led by its managing director Sung Chang Hong went to Faridpur village in Sikandrabad district of Uttar Pradesh to donate 20 high quality wooden and steel desks to the students who had been studying by sitting on the floor. Each desk can accommodate four students.
When asked by the managing director Sung Chang Hong about how were they feeling while using the desks, the students cheered with joy and expressed their happiness.
According to Hong, the bank would like to help the school with 20 numbers of more desks in the next quarter if it got approval from its head office. The bank might think of providing other facilities also to the school in the future depending upon the requirement and associated approvals.
Situated on the outskirts of the district Sikandrabad, this middle-level school with the student’s strength of 170 – both girls and boys, miserably lacks on the elementary infrastructure.
The 7-room school does not have a boundary wall to protect the students from animals wandering into the school premises. The toilets are in a dilapidated condition but the school has basic water availability, Even school walls were recently painted.
Hong spoke to the students and motivated them to study with more emphasis as they are the future of the country. According to the bank officials the company will give facility to the school to make it model in the future as well subject to related approvals.
The bank officials who made it to the school included Amit Sharma, Nisha Sidharth Iyer, Swati Sachdeva, Ilhyoun Park, Sangwoo son and Sung Chang Hong.
The school head Shikha Singhal was also present on the occasion. She introduced the school and its students to the visiting bank staffers.
