Support for foster homes
 

U. S. Steel Košice has been supporting foster homes in Eastern Slovakia for 16 years. Nearly all of the foster homes have taken a turn in this program, some of them more than once. In financial terms this support already amounts to nearly 324 000 €.

Every Christmas for the past ten years the foster home children have written their gift wishes on cards, which Company employees have picked from the Wishing Trees and then fulfilled the children's wishes. The trees have taken firm root in the steelmakers' hearts, and many of them take it for granted that they bring pleasure at Christmas not only to their own children, but to the foster home children as well.

In addition to the children's gifts, symbolic checks representing financial support from the Company with a total value of 19 000 € were presented during the Christmas Concert to:

» the St. Klement Hofbauer Foster Home in Podolínec
» the Uralská Street Foster Home in Košice
» the Hniezdo Halfway House in Prešov
» the Halfway House in Košice

Support for the families of employees

Everybody may at some time experience a difficult living situation. This could be due to disease, the death of a partner, or a seriously ill child. There are also people in the steelmakers' community whio have seen the worse side of life.

It is just at such moments when a sense of belonging is vital, when a helping hand needs to be extended and neighborly support provided. And this is the sense of the project called “We Are With You At The Right Time”, which U. S. Steel Košice has been carrying out for the past five years.

The Concert program included short video sequences presenting ten steelmaker's families who find themselves in complicated situations, and who have been included in the “We Are With You At The Right Time” project. These families will be receiving financial assistance from the Company amounting to 2 000 € each.