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| Amy Meek, right, 18, and Ella Meek, 16 left, the sisters and co-founders of Kids Against Plastic, pose during an international conference jointly hosted by Woori Financial Group and the Institute for Global Economics in Seoul in November. Courtesy of Woori Financial Group |
By Yi Whan-woo
Woori Financial Group announced on Friday that it will sponsor Kids Against Plastic, an environmental group founded by British teenage sisters with the goal of tackling plastic pollution around the world.
The banking group said the sponsorship will be made through a matching grant program, which means that the company will match its donation to the amount of money raised by individual supporters of the sisters.
The sisters, Amy Meek, 18, and Ella Meek, 16, have been running the Be Plastic Clever campaign to urge people to reduce their use of single-use plastics.
The campaign is running in cooperation with 636 first and secondary schools across the world after Kids Against Plastic was formed in the United Kingdom in 2016.
Correspondingly, the Meek sisters delivered a speech at an international conference in Seoul last month that was jointly hosted by Woori Financial Group and the Institute for Global Economics.
The conference dealt with environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) principles.
The two sisters spoke about how Millennials and Generation Z can play a part in fighting climate change and making the world a better place to live in.
Back then, they also visited and gave a speech on environmental protection at Seoul's Urwool Elementary School.
The school has been working with Woori Financial Group on the circular environment concept, where waste and pollution are eliminated and products and materials are kept in use at their highest value and natural systems are regenerated.
"The circular economy has been a keyword for the banking group's management in relation to environmental protection," Woori Financial Group Chairman and CEO Son Tae-seung said. "We will continue to work with the international community to become a leader in circulating resources."
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