One of the areas on which ACE focuses its philanthropic activity is poverty and health—supporting the work of local hospitals and treatment centers, promoting safe streets, bringing treatment of major diseases to farflung areas. Read more about some of these projects below.
Seoul employees support children's hospital
In Seoul, South Korea, nearly the entire office staff supported the Seoul National University Children's Hospital on and around ACE's Global Day of Service on November 7, 2005. Volunteers organized a fundraising charity bazaar with goods donated by ACE's business partners, raising US $5,000. ACE Korea added US $3,000, resulting in a donation of US $8,000 to the hospital's school. Volunteers also distributed ACE toys and balloons to the children, painted the faces of the young patients, and took photos with the children while wearing famous Korean comic character costumes.
Volunteers also launched a child safety education campaign, which is now run by ACE employees each year as part of an ongoing project with the hospital. Each year since then ACE volunteers have involved themselves in the hospital's child safety education program.
Thailand employees assist with safety campaign
In Bangkok, Thailand, 170 ACE employees reached out to youngsters during ACE's Global Day of Service on November 7, 2005, to support safety awareness, complementing the work done by Thai Life's policy department in the Helmets for Children campaign. Volunteers visited four government primary schools with their safety message.
The campaign, supported by the police department in Bangkok, seeks to educate parents about the danger of letting their children ride on motorcycles without wearing helmets. And those helmets? ACE Green, donated by the local ACE offices. Each year since the Global Day of Service ACE volunteers have supported the annual campaign.
Frankfurt office supports cancer organization
In Frankfurt, Germany, during the ACE Global Day of Service on November 7, 2005, 15 employees engaged in a variety of activities in support of the non-profit foundation, Hilfe fur Krebskranke Kinder Frankfurt e.V., which provides services for children suffering from cancer and supports the child cancer department at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University.
Volunteers raised funds to support rising staffing costs, renovated part of the children's cancer house, organized a visit by the gourmet chef Bernhard Reiser, who cooked together with the children, and donated a dvd player and dvd's for use by quarantined children at the facility. The activities built on an existing relationship between the ACE Frankfurt office and the organization.