Goheung-gun, Residents Directly Visit to Practice 'Neighborly Love for Welfare Blind Spots'

Eup and Myeon Community Security Council Year-Round Practice of Small Sharing

[Goheung=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Chunsu] On the 18th, Goheung-gun, Jeollanam-do announced that it has formed community social security councils in 16 eup and myeon to have local residents directly identify citizens in welfare blind spots.

Through this, the county provides customized living services, and when direct provision is difficult, it practices special neighborly love by linking and cooperating with local institutions, corporations, organizations, and facilities to provide services.

The eup and myeon community social security councils are organizations that autonomously lead the council by forming councils of about 20 members each and electing a representative from among the eup and myeon heads and committee members as co-chairpersons.

Each council has taken the initiative in small sharing to neighbors in welfare blind spots in each region using resources received as goods and financial support worth about 150 million won from local philanthropists, small and medium-sized businesses, hometown alumni, and various institutions and organizations centered on council members since August 2017, making its significance even deeper.

Representative cases include the ‘Food Support Project’ for vulnerable groups such as elderly living alone, the ‘Housing Environment Improvement Project’ for households with poor living conditions, ‘Creating Dream Seed Savings Accounts’ for newborns, ‘Making and Delivering Potted Companion Plants’ for psychological stability during COVID-19, the ‘Wireless Light Remote Control Project’ for elderly with mobility difficulties, and ‘Delivering Happy Blankets’ for grandparent-grandchild families.

A county official said, “Despite the already difficult financial situation due to COVID-19, we will do our best to further activate the eup and myeon community social security councils to repay all those who helped neighbors in welfare blind spots.”

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