Gwangju City to Host Volunteer Fair on the 22nd

At City Hall and Online: "Responding to Climate Change! With the Power of Volunteerism!"

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 20th that it will hold the ‘2021 Volunteer Fair’ on the 22nd with an offline event at the City Hall Citizen’s Forest Plaza and an online video conference system.

The Volunteer Fair has been held annually since 2009 to raise awareness of the social value and importance of volunteering in the region.

This year, under the theme ‘Gwangju Climate Change Response! With the Power of Volunteering!’, various volunteer experience activities such as making natural air fresheners using coffee grounds for climate change response and reducing carbon footprints, as well as an online volunteer challenge poster contest, will be held together.

Considering social distancing, the event is organized so that about 100 participants in non-face-to-face volunteer activities through the online video conference system and about 100 on-site participants and facilitators at the City Hall Citizen’s Forest Plaza can understand and experience volunteer activities together.

To spread the culture of volunteer participation, the non-face-to-face ‘Volunteer Practice Challenge Poster Contest’ involves 100 elementary, middle, and high school students who were recruited in advance expressing the necessary practical activities for responding to the climate crisis through drawings.

The online drawing contest grants participants 2 hours of volunteer activity credit and selects excellent works to award 16 certificates from the mayor, city council chairman, superintendent of education, and others. The submitted works will be used as promotional materials for public purposes to revitalize volunteering in the future.

Kim Il-yong, Director of the City’s Autonomous Administration Bureau, said, “Gwangju citizens have a special DNA of the Gwangju spirit of sharing and solidarity, thinking and acting for my family, neighbors, and community before themselves,” and added, “We will actively support and back efforts to expand citizen participation and unite local community capabilities to pass on a safe environment so that Gwangju can become a leading volunteer city where volunteering is part of citizens’ daily lives 365 days a year.”

Meanwhile, despite the difficult situation due to COVID-19, volunteers are caring for neighbors in more difficult circumstances by engaging in disinfection, volunteering at vaccination centers, and caring for marginalized groups throughout the region.

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