Gyeonggi-do Increases Meal and Snack Allowances by 2,000 Won Each for Volunteer Participants

Gyeonggi Province Governor Kim Dong-yeon is taking a commemorative photo after participating in a plogging activity on Paldal Mountain with the Gyeonggi Youth Volunteer Group last month.

Gyeonggi Province will increase meal and snack allowances for volunteer participants by 2,000 won each starting this month.

Based on the 'Gyeonggi Province Volunteer Activity Support Ordinance,' Gyeonggi Province currently provides actual expenses or equivalent in-kind support of 8,000 won for meals and 3,000 won for snacks to active volunteers in province-led activities. However, considering recent high inflation, it announced on the 2nd that it will raise the meal allowance to 10,000 won and the snack allowance to 5,000 won per person, an increase of 2,000 won each.

This decision to increase actual expenses follows a proposal made directly by members of the 5th Gyeonggi Youth Volunteer Corps during a Paldalsan plogging (picking up trash while walking or running) activity with Governor Kim Dong-yeon on the 3rd of last month, emphasizing the need to update the actual expense payment standards.

Governor Kim Dong-yeon responded to the youth volunteer corps' proposal by saying, "I agree that the current actual expense payment standards are unrealistic," and added, "We will consider raising the meal allowance up to 10,000 won."

Meanwhile, this increase in actual expense payment standards applies only to projects directly operated by Gyeonggi Province and the Gyeonggi Volunteer Center. For projects operated by city and county governments, actual expenses will be paid according to each local government's own standards.

Gyeonggi Province plans to use this increase as an opportunity to ensure that all volunteers in the province receive realistic actual expense payments.

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