Yeongdeungpo-gu Announces Social Welfare Project Proposal Contest... Up to 10 Million Won Support

Overcoming COVID-19, Safe Environments for Vulnerable Groups, Support for Learning and Cultural Activities, Health Management, etc... Apply by May 7 via Mail, Email, or Visit to District Office Welfare Policy Department... Final Selection by End of May

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Yeongdeungpo-gu (Mayor Chaehyun Il) is promoting the ‘2021 1st Social Welfare Planning Project Proposal Contest’ to discover excellent field-centered social welfare programs that reflect the diverse characteristics and welfare needs of the region and actively support them.

The ‘Social Welfare Planning Project Proposal Contest’ is a fund allocation project by the Community Chest of Korea that solicits innovative and efficient excellent welfare programs from institutions and organizations active in the social welfare field, supports a certain budget necessary for project operation, and aims to solve community problems and enhance welfare services through public-private cooperation.

The contest fields are divided into ▲non-face-to-face social welfare projects to overcome COVID-19 ▲support for safe living of vulnerable groups such as children, disabled persons, elderly living alone, and middle-aged single-person households ▲support for learning and cultural leisure activities for learning-vulnerable groups such as the elderly and disabled ▲support for healthy living such as resolving food shortages and mental health management for care-vulnerable groups ▲support projects for vulnerable groups against heat waves, and other fields. However, one-time projects solely for purchasing or distributing goods are excluded.

The funds are provided from the 2021 Hope Ondol Warm Winter Fund, with up to 10 million KRW supported per institution.

Nonprofit corporations, institutions, organizations, or facilities operating social welfare projects or welfare activities in Yeongdeungpo-gu, consortia formed to solve community problems, or institutions active in the working subcommittees of the Community Social Security Council are eligible to apply.

Those wishing to apply can download the application form posted in the Notices/Announcements section on the Yeongdeungpo-gu Office website by May 7 and submit it in person to the Welfare Policy Division of Yeongdeungpo-gu Office, send it by mail, or email it to the person in charge (allcod@ydp.go.kr).

The submitted documents will undergo a fair and strict review by the Fund Review Committee composed of welfare experts at the end of May, and projects deemed suitable for support will be finally selected.

Chaehyun Il, Mayor of Yeongdeungpo-gu, said, “We expect to discover creative and effective welfare project ideas that contain the vivid voices from the welfare field through this contest,” and added, “We will take the lead in resolving welfare blind spots, strengthening the community safety net, and realizing an integrated local welfare community through the establishment of a close public-private cooperation system.”

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