Seongdong-gu Supports Customized Alternative Meals and Play Activities for Families with Disabled Members

Seongdong-gu Seongdong Disabled Welfare Center Delivers Customized Alternative Meals and Masks Directly to 200 Disabled Families... Provides Home Play Activity Materials for Young Children with Developmental Brain Lesions

Alternative Meal Packaging

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Seongdong-gu (Mayor Jung Won-oh) public Seongdong Disabled Comprehensive Welfare Center is helping disabled families who have to stay at home struggling due to COVID-19 by providing customized alternative meals and activity materials tailored to disabled households.

Since the 19th of last month, the district has ordered the simultaneous closure of local disabled welfare facilities to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the community and to protect disabled people who are vulnerable to infectious diseases.

Accordingly, Seongdong-gu public Seongdong Disabled Comprehensive Welfare Center (Director Choi Sung-ja) is supporting ‘Customized Disabled Health Care Alternative Meals’ to alleviate meal and nutritional deficiencies for single-person disabled households and families with severe disabilities who are suffering from the prolonged closure of welfare facilities and difficult outings.

The welfare center’s kitchen carefully prepares various side dishes, and assembles large gift boxes including instant convenience foods such as ox bone soup and stews, along with fruits and masks. These boxes were personally delivered by welfare center staff to 200 disabled households within Seongdong-gu. Deliveries were made once a week for a total of three times starting from the 4th.

Choi Sung-ja, director of Seongdong Disabled Comprehensive Welfare Center, said, “This alternative meal support was prepared with the welfare center’s sponsorship funds for our disabled community struggling due to COVID-19. Welfare center staff come out early in the morning to prepare side dishes and meals and volunteer by delivering them directly.”

Additionally, since the welfare center’s closure, it has provided play activity materials to infants and children with developmental and brain lesion disabilities who were receiving rehabilitation therapy.

While making daily welfare calls to disabled families, the center learned that many disabled children were struggling from staying at home every day, so it decided to support activity materials that can be used for play activities at home.

Rehabilitation therapists selected activity booklets by domain and level considering the cognitive levels of the children they were treating, purchased 2 to 3 books per child, and delivered them to each household to guide autonomous home education.

Guardian Ha OO said, “Since the closure, my child has been suffering without therapy day by day, but the therapist advised activities that can be done at home over the phone, and when the therapy interruption was prolonged, they sent usable materials to our home, which moved me deeply,” expressing gratitude.

Play Activity Materials for Children with Disabilities

Jung Won-oh, mayor of Seongdong-gu, said, “Although residents are going through a difficult time due to COVID-19, with the warm support of many people, we can overcome this hardship together. We will do our best to overcome the COVID-19 crisis so that not only vulnerable groups such as the disabled but all Seongdong residents can live safe and happy daily lives as soon as possible.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.