Seodaemun Euddeum Mountaineering Club Supports Two Elderly Facing Difficulties Due to COVID-19

Sharing Warmth with Two Neighbors Struggling Livelihood Due to Temporary Suspension of Senior Job Program

‘Seodaemun Euddeum Mountaineering Club’ officials are posing for a commemorative photo with Moon Seok-jin, Mayor of Seodaemun District (second from the right), after the donation ceremony supporting 100 households.

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Seodaemun-gu (Mayor Moon Seok-jin) announced on the 13th that the ‘Seodaemun Eutteum Mountaineering Club (President Kim Soon-rye)’ recently donated money to two elderly people in their 80s who are struggling to make a living, warming the community.

The Eutteum Mountaineering Club supported the elderly through the ‘Caring for 100 Families’ sponsorships for households 603 and 604.

Both elderly individuals were living without support from their children, relying on income from selling scrap paper, basic pensions, and senior job wages, but recently faced difficulties due to the temporary suspension of senior jobs caused by COVID-19.

Kim Soon-rye, president of the ‘Seodaemun Eutteum Mountaineering Club,’ said, “While planning to share with neighbors struggling due to COVID-19, our members pooled donations little by little and decided to participate in the Seodaemun 100 Families Caring Project. We hope this small help will assist the elderly in overcoming these difficult times.”

The sponsored elderly said, “Our children are also struggling and cannot help us, so it is a great strength that neighbors share their warm hearts like this,” and added, “We hope the COVID-19 situation calms down soon and the senior job project resumes as quickly as possible.”

The ‘Seodaemun 100 Families Caring Project’ is a program that connects families in welfare blind spots who urgently need help but are not eligible for public support with individual sponsors, businesses, religious organizations, and others. Currently, with sponsorship for household 604, it has achieved cumulative support funds of over 3.4 billion won and has established itself as a donation model within the local community.

When Seodaemun-gu’s community service centers, welfare institutions, schools, and residents recommend neighbors in need, after review, they can become beneficiaries of the ‘100 Families Caring Project.’

The project was initiated in January 2011 by Seodaemun-gu Mayor Moon Seok-jin, who proposed, “Since there are limits to handling increasing welfare demands with limited welfare budgets, let’s build an advanced donation culture through discovering private resources.”

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