Jinju-si Actively Promotes Disability Welfare Projects Without Blind Spots

Comprehensive Support for People with Disabilities in Care, Income, and Employment

Promotion of Welfare Projects for People with Disabilities without Blind Spots in Jinju City

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Jinju City, Gyeongnam Province, announced on the 22nd that it will promote various customized welfare policies for people with disabilities to support care for people with disabilities and their families who are experiencing difficulties in daily life due to the spread of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), as well as support income and jobs and strengthen human rights.

First, the city is implementing an activity support project for 790 people with disabilities who need social activity and assistant support. The activity support project for people with disabilities provides personalized services such as personal care, assistant support, daily life support, communication assistance, visiting bathing, and visiting nursing services for people with disabilities who have difficulty living independently in society.

Despite restrictions on activity support for people with disabilities due to COVID-19 social distancing, the city is actively striving to deliver services by establishing COVID-19 prevention management response procedures and measures, including education and promotion of quarantine rules, designation and deployment of dedicated staff for infectious disease management, twice-daily monitoring, and strengthening quarantine at service institutions.

The employment project for people with disabilities includes 52 welfare jobs, 77 general jobs, and 2 specialized jobs. Welfare jobs mainly involve assisting at welfare facilities for people with disabilities and environmental maintenance, working 14 hours per week, while general and specialized jobs mainly assist welfare tasks at eup/myeon offices, Donghaeng Welfare Centers, facilities for people with disabilities, and elderly care facilities.

At the Jinju City Sign Language Interpretation Center, sign language interpretation services are provided for real-time video calls to ensure that hearing-impaired individuals who have difficulty communicating do not experience inconvenience in daily life. The Disabled Life Mobility Support Center offers personalized services such as shopping and hospital visits for visually impaired individuals.

To prevent the spread of COVID-19, the city is encouraging members of disability organizations to practice social distancing by refraining from self-help meetings and events. Additionally, since many people with disabilities belong to high-risk groups with underlying conditions and have a high risk of infection, the city plans to actively support the discovery and activities of non-face-to-face projects such as education using video calls to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Jinju Mayor Jo Gyu-il said, “I feel very sorry that citizens are going through a difficult time due to restrictions on everyday social activities in the COVID-19 era,” and expressed a strong commitment to promoting welfare policies for people with disabilities, saying, “We will do our best to ensure that people with disabilities, who are socially vulnerable, can live happy lives through various welfare policies for people with disabilities.”

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