Gwangju Seo-gu Receives Praise for 'Neighbor Care Movement' Targeting Vulnerable Groups

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Seo-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Seo Daeseok) is receiving favorable reviews for its 'Emergency Neighbor Care Movement,' which is being carried out targeting local community welfare activists and vulnerable groups in response to COVID-19.

According to Seo-gu on the 26th, the Neighbor Care Movement was established out of concern that it would be difficult to spread preventive activity guidelines to all residents through local government responses alone, despite making every effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the community.

A total of 2,108 local community welfare activists, consisting of 18 district crisis household discovery teams, district security councils, and welfare community leaders, take the lead in emergency preventive activities targeting vulnerable groups such as elderly living alone.

The welfare activists check the health status of relatively disaster-information vulnerable and immunocompromised residents such as seniors aged 65 and over, disabled persons, and chronic patients through phone calls and visits, and provide guidance on preventive measures.

In particular, they confirm whether there are any difficulties in daily life and are praised for playing a significant role as a community safety net by immediately requesting on-site consultations at the district community center if additional crisis signs are detected.

A Seo-gu official said, "It is difficult to completely prevent the spread of COVID-19 with local government responses alone," and added, "We will do our best to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the community, which has entered a new phase, together with local community welfare activists."

Meanwhile, Seo-gu has been consistently showing interest in residents in difficulty by establishing a system to discover and support welfare blind spots, operating district crisis household discovery teams, SOS Hope Mobile Units, and Hope Delivery Service as human safety nets to proactively identify welfare blind spots.

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