Choi Hogwon, Yeongdeungpo-gu Mayor, Embarks on Warm Journey to Ease Cold in Ssangbangchon

December 2nd, District Office Executives and Volunteers Deliver 'Love Briquettes' to Ssokbangchon... 200 Briquettes per Household, Total 1,000 Briquettes Delivered to Share Warmth in Winter
Creating a Warm Community Together with Residents through a Paradigm Shift in Volunteering

Choi Ho-gwon, Yeongdeungpo-gu Mayor (center), participating in making fruit punch for residents of the jjokbangchon (small room village)

Yeongdeungpo-gu (District Mayor Choi Ho-kwon) announced on the 2nd that it will carry out a "Love Briquette Delivery" volunteer activity as the last "Volunteer Day" event of the year in the jjokbangchon (small room village).

With the onset of the full winter season, the district will engage in briquette delivery volunteer work to help residents of the jjokbangchon, who use briquettes for heating, stay warm during the winter. The volunteer activity will include participation from the district mayor, senior officials, district employees, and 15 volunteers.

The staff will deliver 1,000 briquettes to five households in the Yeongdeungpo-dong jjokbangchon, sharing warmth and kindness.

Meanwhile, the "Volunteer Day," held every first Saturday of the month, is an activity where district senior officials and volunteers carry out relay volunteer work for marginalized groups and the local community.

Since February, the district has conducted various volunteer activities across welfare, environment, safety, and culture sectors, including cleaning rainwater drains in preparation for the rainy season, sharing watermelon punch in the jjokbangchon, making songpyeon (rice cakes), removing weeds from street trees, and accompanying elderly people on outings at day care centers.

In addition, the district collaborates with employees from 18 neighborhoods and residents of professional organizations to support socially vulnerable groups. They carry out community-based volunteer work such as thorough cleaning of rainwater drains to prevent flood damage, checking on elderly living alone, and sharing food with neighbors in need. The large-scale rainwater drain cleaning is particularly credited with significantly reducing flood damage this year.

The district plans to continue "Volunteer Day" next year to foster a warm community through solidarity and harmony. Furthermore, it aims to expand the volunteer paradigm by promoting creative and public-private cooperative volunteering, solving social problems together with residents, and striving to realize the social value of "togetherness."

Environmental Cleanup Volunteer Work

Choi Ho-kwon, Mayor of Yeongdeungpo-gu, stated, "I hope the briquettes filled with warmth will provide some help to the residents of the jjokbangchon enduring the harsh winter," and added, "We will carefully look after every corner of the community to ensure vulnerable groups can spend a warm winter and build a dense welfare safety net."

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