Bangkok--29 Jul--LG-One
LG Hope Family project provides resilience programsin Bangladesh and Cambodia
LG Electronics (LG), a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, recently announced its LG Hope Family-Enhancing Resilience project in a partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to strengthen the fight against hunger and under-nutrition in Asia.
The LG’s Hope Family-Enhancing Resilience project is a three-year public-private partnership, through which LG will support WFP’s programmes in Bangladesh and Cambodia. With an initial donation of more than US$760,000 (or approximately 22.64 million Thai baht), the LG and WFP partnership will help more than 35,000 people in these two countries to boost families’ resilience to disasters and household food security.
In Bangladesh, more than 10,000 people from 2,000 families will benefit from the project to facilitate physical, environmental, and social resilience as well as food rations. Concurrently, the project will provide 25,000 people from 5,000 households in Cambodia with family rations of food in form of approximately 750 metric tons of rice, which will result in significant impacts to ensuring food security, poverty reduction and as a catalyst to the transformation of local communities.
“Bangladesh and Cambodia are two of the most vulnerable countries threatened by food insecurity and climate disasters,” said Mr. James Park, President of LG Electronics Southeast Asia Region Representative. “The LG Hope Family project is a part of our commitments to lifting the disadvantaged families in Asia out of hunger and poverty, and making their life good by bringing them into hope for a brighter future.”