Opening of Geumcheon-gu Shelter for People with Physical Disabilities

The 4th Shelter for the Disabled Opens in Geumcheon-gu, Efforts to Improve Welfare for the Disabled

A Shelter Created for Use by Both Disabled and Non-Disabled Individuals

Geumcheon-gu (Mayor Yu Seong-hoon) announced on the 10th that the Geumcheon-gu Shelter for the Physically Disabled (13, Siheung-daero 59-gil, 2nd floor, hereinafter referred to as the Shelter) has been opened.

Geumcheon-gu is making efforts to improve welfare for the disabled by creating shelters tailored to the characteristics of different types of disabilities. Starting with the shelter for the visually impaired in 2018, the shelters for the hearing impaired and the Geumcheon-gu Disabled Care Shelter were opened in 2020.

The establishment of the shelter was promoted after being selected in a Seoul city public contest in May last year, receiving project funding from the Seoul Metropolitan Government.

The facility is operated by the Seoul Association for the Physically Disabled Geumcheon-gu Branch (President Lee Wan-beom). It consists of various spaces such as a ‘lecture room’ where education, culture, and art programs can be learned; a ‘multipurpose space’ equipped with soundproofing for screen park golf, rehabilitation exercises, and music activities; and a ‘book caf?’ where visitors can chat over refreshments and read books.

Yu Seong-hoon, Mayor of Geumcheon-gu, said, “This place embodies the will of the district office and the association to create a space where not only the physically disabled but all disabled and non-disabled people can use and interact together,” adding, “I hope the space will become more active.”

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