Namwon Pyeonghwa House and Lifelong Learning Center Host 'Social Welfare Colloquium'

The Peace House residential facility for people with severe disabilities (Director Kim Jong-yeol) and the Namwon City Social Welfare Council (Chairman Noh Jae-gyu) announced on the 17th that they held a 'Social Welfare Colloquium' for social welfare workers from the 11th to the 13th on the 3rd floor of the Lifelong Learning Center.

This event was promoted to start contemplating sustainable social welfare practices and to seek directions for realizing social values.

Namwon Peace House and Namwon City Social Welfare Council recently held a "Social Welfare Colloquium" for social welfare workers on the 3rd floor of the Lifelong Learning Center.
[Photo by Namwon City]

On the first day, Bang Dae-wook, CEO of the Next Generation Foundation, gave a lecture titled 'To Do What We Want to Do Better'; on the second day, Pyo Kyung-heum, Executive Director of nonprofit consulting firm Wellfirm, spoke on 'Beyond Social Welfare: Opening the Era of Social Design'; and on the third day, Yang Won-seok, Director of the Blue Welfare Office, presented 'Is the Social Welfare Field Sustainable?'. The event was held over three days.

The '2023 Namwon Social Welfare Colloquium,' attended by over 200 social welfare workers, provided a time to deliberate on how social welfare should respond and be practiced in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and AI.

This social welfare colloquium conducted lectures to contemplate what a sustainable social welfare field should be like together with social welfare workers in Namwon City amid rapidly changing social trends, and to seek and expand directions for realizing social values.

The Peace House (Director Kim Jong-yeol) and the Namwon City Social Welfare Council (Chairman Noh Jae-gyu) said, "We hope that through this social welfare colloquium, social welfare workers will find directions for realizing social values and greatly contribute to local social welfare and capacity building."

Namwon = Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Jeong Young-kwon baekok@asiae.co.kr

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