Jeonnam Residents Voluntarily Raise Funds and Supplies to Overcome COVID-19... Support for Daegu and Gyeongbuk

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Chunsu] About 70 social economy enterprises in Jeonnam, village community members, and 200 public officials voluntarily gathered hygiene products, food, and health supplements to help residents of Daegu and Gyeongbuk who are struggling due to the spread of COVID-19, warming the hearts of many and becoming a hot topic.

On the 11th, Kang Jeonghee, a member of the Jeonnam Provincial Assembly, along with about 30 Jeonnam village activists and residents, carried out volunteer work packaging and packing items such as masks and food (worth approximately 40.31 million KRW in goods and 7.3 million KRW in cash) carefully collected from 22 cities and counties in Jeonnam, including Haenam-gun and Yeosu-si, into ‘Happiness Boxes’ at Yeonho Village Co., Ltd., a village enterprise in Haenam.

The ‘Happiness Boxes,’ which aimed to capture the ‘spring of Jeonnam,’ contained side dishes such as green onion kimchi carefully prepared by grandmothers, pickled vegetables, organic nutritious porridge, onion and bellflower root juice, masks, and hand sanitizers. These were delivered to the Daegu·Gyeongbuk Social Economy Council and will be distributed to vulnerable households within Daegu and Gyeongbuk.

The initiative began with a small appeal posted by a Jeonnam activist in a group chat and, within three days, led to the participation of more than 200 Jeonnam residents.

The appeal started with a proposal to gather warm affection from Jeonnam village activists for Daegu and Gyeongbuk, recalling Admiral Yi Sun-sin’s famous phrase, ‘If there is no Jeonnam, there is no country.’

The article also mentioned, “It is heartbreaking to hear that nurses supporting Daegu are having meals with disposable cup rice. Nurses are ‘not angels, but people who need to eat to live.’” It proposed sending delicious Jeonnam foods such as Yeosu Gat Kimchi and Yeonggwang grilled fish with chili paste, along with heartfelt support, to the medical staff and villages in Daegu and Gyeongbuk who are working hard to treat COVID-19.

Kang Jeonghee, a member of the Economic, Tourism, and Culture Committee and also a member of the Jeonnam Village Making Committee, said, “As the saying goes, even sharing a single soybean, we are a people who become stronger in times of crisis. The elders in the villages personally made green onion kimchi for neighbors in Daegu and Gyeongbuk who are facing difficulties. I participated in volunteering to support the beautiful actions of the great and nameless Jeonnam residents who donated delicious food and money from various places.”

Kang emphasized, “I will carefully oversee Jeonnam’s policies and support budgets so that social enterprises, village enterprises, and village community projects can be further activated in the future.”

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