Gwangju City Donates Award Prize Money for Outstanding Self-Sufficiency Project Institution

Gwangju City Hall

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 28th that it will donate cultural gift certificates worth 1 million won, received along with the Minister of Health and Welfare’s Commendation for being selected as an excellent local government in the 2020 self-sufficiency project evaluation, to the Gwangju branch of the Community Chest of Korea, a social welfare corporation.

The donated items will be used to support welfare for at-risk youth living in youth shelters, which are welfare facilities that provide early detection of runaway and other at-risk youth to prevent crime and delinquency, support for livelihood protection, and assistance for their prompt return to family and social advancement.

Gwangju received the commendation as an excellent institution due to the high evaluation of various policy projects implemented to maintain stable jobs and create new jobs for vulnerable groups most threatened by COVID-19.

To maintain jobs in the self-sufficiency project, the city supported the operation of cafes run by self-sufficiency project groups at the Usan-dong Administrative Welfare Center in Gwangsan-gu and the Hyoryeong Senior Welfare Town, and helped self-sufficiency project groups be selected as operators of the Hanam Workers’ Workwear Laundry, thereby supporting stable operation of self-sufficiency projects through public institution establishments.

Additionally, linked with HiteJinro’s social contribution project, the city made efforts to create new jobs by actively supporting the selection of self-sufficiency project groups as operators of the ‘Youth Independence Support Project,’ which helps low-income youth achieve independence through entrepreneurship by providing startup spaces, professional technical training, and operational know-how, and the ‘Bitgoeul National Safety Experience Center Cafe and Restaurant Operation’ scheduled to open next year.

Ryu Mi-su, head of the city’s Social Welfare Division, said, “Although the amount is not large, I hope it will be meaningfully used for welfare support projects that enable at-risk youth in the local community to promptly return to their families and advance socially,” and added, “We will continue to strive to discover jobs that low-income people with work ability can participate in through more diverse policy initiatives.”

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