Visiting and Helping Neighbors in Need Directly in Hwagok 8-dong, Gangseo-gu

Ganseo-gu Hwagok 8-dong Operates ‘Smart Visiting Welfare and Health Counseling Center’

Providing Welfare and Health Services by Visiting Residents Who Have Difficulty Accessing the Community Service Center to Eliminate Welfare Blind Spots

The Hwagok 8-dong Community Service Center in Ganseo-gu, Seoul (Director Kim Euisuk) announced that it will operate the ‘Smart Visiting Welfare and Health Counseling Center’ in collaboration with the Hwagok 8-dong Hope Dream Group (Leader Kim Youngcheol), Banghwa Health Branch, Deungchon 7 Comprehensive Social Welfare Center, and Homeplus Gayang Branch.

The ‘Smart Visiting Welfare and Health Counseling Center’ is a project that installs and operates counseling centers at local hubs for residents who usually have difficulty visiting institutions such as the community service center and health center. It aims to discover vulnerable groups in crisis who need help and provide health counseling services to residents.

The Hwagok 8-dong Hope Dream Group and the community service center conduct welfare blind spot discovery promotions, customized welfare service consultations, and connections to public services. Banghwa Health Branch and Deungchon 7 Comprehensive Social Welfare Center provide blood pressure, blood sugar, depression tests, and intensive counseling for high-risk groups.

Homeplus Gayang Branch sponsors various daily necessities such as canned tuna, and together with vitamins and first aid kits purchased by the Hope Dream Group, they produce the ‘Health Doctor Hope Dream Box’ to provide to the discovered high-risk groups.

The counseling center will operate for two days on the 22nd and 23rd from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Anggeo Children’s Park. It is also scheduled to operate at Deoburi Children’s Park and Baedari Children’s Park in September and October.

A community service center official stated that through operating this counseling center, they expect to raise awareness of discovering welfare blind spots and create a synergy effect in establishing a local care system by providing various welfare and health services to middle-aged and elderly single-person households at risk of isolation.

An elderly visitor named Lim ○○ who visited the counseling center on the 22nd expressed gratitude, saying, “The community service center and health center are far away, and it is difficult to go out due to physical discomfort, so it was very convenient and good that they came nearby to check my health and provide counseling.”

Kim Euisuk, Director of Hwagok 8-dong, said, “We will continue to actively discover welfare blind spots through public-private cooperation, manage residents at risk of isolation, and strive even more to build a village welfare system so that no resident is left out.”

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