109 Doosan Vina scholarships awarded across Vietnam
08:50 | 26/02/2014
October 31st 2013, Dung Quat, Quang Ngai, Vietnam: For the sixth consecutive year Doosan Vina has awarded scholarships at universities across Vietnam. The 109 recipients are students at nine Vietnamese universities.
Speaking at one of the scholarship award programs, Kim Gwang Ju, Director of the Human Resource and Management Divisions said, “Since commencing operations five years ago we’ve spent more than $2 million on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), our CSR programs focus on education and health because we believe that education and health are foundational to advancement, if a person is to be competitive in today’s global economy a healthy body and a well trained mind are an absolute necessity, so that’s where we’ve been investing our CSR budget.”
The scholarships Doosan Vina provides are broad based and cover a variety of disciplines, including engineering, language and business that coincide with the company’s employee development needs.
This year’s scholarships totaled nearly 400 M VND or $20,000 and went to students at: Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Da Nang University of Foreign Languages, Hue University of Foreign Languages, Ho Chi Minh University of Polytechnic, Ho Chi Minh University of Technical Education, Ho Chi Minh University of Industrial, Da Nang University of Polytechnic, Quang Ngai’s Pham Van Dong University and Quang Nam University.
In addition to the student support, nearly $2,400 was given to Quang Ngai’s Pham Van Dong University and Quang Nam University to help the schools purchase some much needed equipment and machinery for classes.
Doosan Vina
Doosan Vina is a high tech industrial complex in the Dung Quat Economic Zone of Central Vietnam’s Quang Ngai Province employing nearly 2,500 Vietnamese. The company supplies the mega infrastructure products that make modern life a reality. Doosan Vina’s products include: Boilers for thermal power plants, Heat Recovery Steam Generators that increase the efficiency of a typical power plant by over 30%, Desalination plants the size of a football pitch that turn sea water into fresh, Material Handling Systems like the cranes that are the heart of logistics at ports around the world and Chemical Processing Equipment that turns the earth’s natural resources into the useful products we use every day.
The Doosan Group
The Doosan Group is a global multinational focusing on Power, Water and other infrastructure developments worldwide. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, has operations in 37 countries, over 35,000 employees and $22 billion in annual revenue.
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P1: Kim Gwang Ju (black suit), Director of the Human Resource and Management Divisions and students of Da Nang University of Polytechnic after scholarship ceremony.
P2: Vo Hoang Thong, General Manager of Human Resource Department granting the scholarship to Quang Nam students.
P3: Kim Gwang Ju (left), Director of the Human Resource and Management Divisions presenting scholarship certificate to Da Nang University of Foreign Languages.
P4: Vo Hoang Thong, General Manager of Human Resource Department and students from Hue University of Foreign Languages.
P5: Kim Gwang Ju, Director of the Human Resource and Management Divisions together with teacher and students of Ho Chi Minh University of Industrial.
P6: Vo Hoang Thong (center), General Manager of Human Resource Department and students of Ho Chi Minh University of Technical Education.
Source: Doosan Vina/ VietnamEnergy.vn
