Yeongdeok-gun Launches Full-Scale Career-Type Job Project for Middle-Aged Adults

Utilizing Retirees' Experience and Expertise to Address Welfare Blind Spots

Yeongdeok-gun, Gyeongbuk Province (Governor Kim Gwang-yeol) has been selected for the Ministry of Employment and Labor's public project for three consecutive years from 2021 to 2023, thereby officially promoting the "Senior Career-type Job Project," which utilizes the careers and expertise of retirees to identify vulnerable households and provide and connect welfare services.

Yeongdeok-gun promoting the 2023 'Senior Career Job Project'.

The executing agency for this project is the Yeongdeok-gun Community Social Security Council, which plays a central role in linking welfare resources within the region. Four retired professionals aged between 50 and under 70, residing in the area, who are unemployed and have at least three years of experience in social welfare or hold relevant certifications, were selected as participants.

The selected participants completed job training to enhance their expertise, including ▲ the direction of Yeongdeok-gun's senior job project ▲ practical counseling techniques for meeting neighbors ▲ food hygiene education. They also discussed improvement plans through a meeting with representatives from the nine eup and myeon responsible for the food bank delivery system.

The senior job project will operate from March to November this year under the name "Chomchomi Village Guardians, where neighbors watch over and care for each other." They will work in the nine eup and myeon to identify vulnerable groups in need of care, connect welfare services and resources, distribute donated food from the food bank, and discover donors.

Lee Hee-won, the private committee chairperson of the Yeongdeok-gun Community Social Security Council, urged, “Using the expertise and experience accumulated so far, we ask the participants of the senior job project to help create a tightly knit community care system in Yeongdeok-gun where no neighbors suffer in welfare blind spots, and where everyone watches over and cares for each other.”

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