Seoul City and LG Household & Health Care Deliver 'Safety Packages' to 280 Care-Leaving Children

Promoted as part of the 'Seoul City Plan to Strengthen Support for Independent Living of Care-Leaving Children'... Scheduled to be held twice annually

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] Seoul City announced on the 17th that, in celebration of the Chuseok holiday, it collaborated with LG Household & Health Care and Hope Sharing People to create and deliver ‘Safety Packages’ worth approximately 600,000 KRW per person to 280 children who aged out of care earlier this year.

LG Household & Health Care, which participated in this sharing event, has been actively engaged in numerous social contribution activities targeting women, children, and adolescents. Hope Sharing People is a social welfare support organization that connects and supports socially vulnerable groups in partnership with various companies.

Children aging out of care are those who have been protected in child welfare facilities or foster care due to reasons such as the death of guardians and leave the system upon turning 18. Typically, these youths have just graduated from high school and face many difficulties during their initial steps toward independence.

The ‘Safety Package’ project is part of Seoul City’s previously announced ‘Plan to Strengthen Support for the Independence of Children Aging Out of Care.’ It involves collecting essential daily necessities sponsored by private companies, assembling them into ‘Safety Packages,’ and delivering them twice a year, including during holidays, to children aging out of care.

For this Safety Package, LG Household & Health Care donated daily necessities including cosmetics worth 160 million KRW. The organization and volunteers assembled the packages, and Seoul City handled the delivery. Seoul City plans to pilot this project this year and institutionalize it as a biannual event through expanded public-private cooperation.

Kim Seon-soon, Director of the Women and Family Policy Office of Seoul City, said, “The Safety Packages contain the heartfelt support of many people cheering on the new start of children aging out of care. We hope that warmth reaches these youths during the holiday season, and we will continue to implement thorough and detailed support policies to help them settle stably in society.”

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