"No Nutritional Gaps for Children"... Dongjak-gu Supports Evening Meals at Daycare Centers

Providing 'Dongjak-style Children's Dinner Lunchbox'... Reducing Parental Burden for Dual-Income Families and Others

The opening ceremony of the Heukseok-dong Public Gomdori Daycare Center in Dongjak-gu held last May

Dongjak-gu (Mayor Park Il-ha) announced that it will pilot the 'Dongjak-style Children's Dinner Lunchbox' support project starting in November to address nutritional gaps for children and reduce the burden on parents.

The newly launched 'Dongjak-style Children's Dinner Lunchbox' support project provides dinner lunchboxes to children in extended daycare at daycare centers when they are picked up.

The purpose is to help children grow healthily by ensuring they receive nutritious meals on time even if their pickup is late, and to reduce the burden on parents who have to prepare dinner after work.

Currently, most daycare centers provide dinner mainly to children in night extended daycare who are picked up after 7:30 PM. Children in extended daycare who do not receive dinner lunchboxes often miss appropriate mealtime due to late pickup and dinner preparation time.

The district will select one daycare center considering the number of extended daycare children and other factors, accept monthly applications from parents, and pilot the program from November to December.

From March next year, the dinner lunchbox support will be expanded to about 40 daycare centers. The program will initially target children aged 3 to 5, with plans to gradually extend it to infants.

Park Il-ha, Mayor of Dongjak-gu, said, "This will give parents more time during their busy evenings and allow them to entrust their children with greater peace of mind. Dongjak-gu will provide generous support to lead the way as a city that is good for raising children."

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