Yeongdeok County, Yeongdeok Christian Union, and Pohang CBS Sign Agreement to Make Yeongdeok a Better Place to Have and Raise Children

Yeongdeok-gun, Gyeongbuk Province, the Yeongdeok-gun Christian Association, and Pohang CBS have joined hands to overcome the crisis of the population cliff.

Agreement Ceremony for Making Yeongdeok a Good Place to Have and Raise Children.

On the 10th, Yeongdeok-gun signed a mutual cooperation agreement with the Yeongdeok-gun Christian Association and Pohang CBS at Yeongdeok-gun Office to overcome the low birthrate population cliff crisis through the initiative “Making Yeongdeok a Good Place to Have and Raise Children.”

Through this agreement, the three organizations will work together as a community in sharing and solidarity from pregnancy to birth, childcare, and care to create a “sustainable Yeongdeok where every birth is respected.” They will also join forces to prepare practical alternatives and mutual cooperation to establish a women- and child-friendly Yeongdeok.

To this end, they will engage in ▲ cooperation to expand the “Making Yeongdeok a Good Place to Have and Raise Children” campaign regionally ▲ securing public support for population policies related to making Yeongdeok a good place to have and raise children ▲ mutual cooperation to realize a “sustainable Yeongdeok where every birth is respected,” including creating a women- and child-friendly city and shared community responsibility from pregnancy to birth, childcare, and care ▲ and other joint cooperation through mutual consultation.

The county will actively discover and implement various policies for “Making Yeongdeok a Good Place to Have and Raise Children.”

The Yeongdeok-gun Christian Association will actively convey messages about the importance of pregnancy, birth, childcare, and care to local churches and congregants and will promote campaign activities at the church level.

Pohang CBS plans to produce programs to positively change citizens’ awareness of childbirth and care, hold care community and co-parenting briefings, and launch the Life Care National Movement Camp Gyeongbuk Eastern Headquarters.

County Governor Kim Gwang-yeol said, “Increasing the population is an urgent task above all,” and added, “We will actively support Yeongdeok-gun, the local church community, and CBS to work together and ensure successful progress.”

Kim Cheon-bok, president of the Yeongdeok-gun Christian Association, emphasized, “Childbirth and care are the biggest issues in the region,” and said, “I hope that this agreement will lead to practical and concrete activities being put into practice.”

Yoo Seung-woo, CEO of Pohang CBS, said, “CBS is carrying out the ‘Childbirth and Care Movement’ for the future of Korean society,” and added, “I hope we can share empathy for the national crisis and gather wisdom together to find solutions.”

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