Yangcheon-gu Signs Customized Support Agreement for Medical Blind Spots with Seoul Nam Annual Conference of the Methodist Church

The Korean Methodist Church Seoul Southern Conference Yangcheon District and Yangcheon Sarang Welfare Foundation Sign Tripartite Agreement for 'Hardina Sharing Fund'... Monthly Support of 1 Million KRW Each for 3 Low-Income Residents Below 120% Median Income, Totaling 3 Million KRW for Medical and Living Expenses

Yangcheon-gu (District Mayor Lee Gi-jae) announced on the 8th that it has signed an agreement for the ‘Hardy Sharing Fund’ with the Yangcheon District Conference of the Seoul Southern Annual Conference of the Korean Methodist Church and the Yangcheon Sarang Welfare Foundation to support vulnerable groups in medical blind spots within the region, becoming the first autonomous district in Seoul to do so.

The ‘Hardy Sharing Fund’ is a social contribution project established to honor Robert Hardy, a Canadian medical missionary who was active in the Busan area and sparked the revival of the Korean church. The fund aims to activate the discovery of medically vulnerable groups, eliminate welfare blind spots, and establish a customized welfare support system.

Through this tripartite agreement, each institution pledged to sincerely cooperate for the development of the project based on mutual respect and reciprocity. The beneficiaries of the agreement are low-income residents with a median income of 120% or less, and a total of 3 million KRW will be provided monthly to three individuals, 1 million KRW per person, as emergency medical and living expenses.

To this end, the Yangcheon District Conference of the Seoul Southern Annual Conference of the Korean Methodist Church, in the name of missionary Robert Hardy who dedicated his life to medical missions, agreed that its 34 affiliated churches will join forces to raise a monthly fund of 3 million KRW. Yangcheon-gu will recommend recipients among the medically vulnerable groups to receive the fund, and the Yangcheon Sarang Welfare Foundation will be responsible for supporting the recipients and reporting the results.

This agreement was expanded and planned based on the ‘First Day Life-Saving Offering’ of Sesin Church, where Kim Jong-gu, a superintendent of the Yangcheon District Conference of the Seoul Southern Annual Conference of the Korean Methodist Church, serves as the senior pastor. Since March 2020, Sesin Church and the Yangcheon Sarang Welfare Foundation have discovered 1 to 2 medically marginalized individuals monthly and provided 1 million KRW per person for medical and living expenses, benefiting a total of 36 residents so far.

Kim Jong-gu, superintendent of the Yangcheon District Conference of the Seoul Southern Annual Conference of the Korean Methodist Church, said, “I am truly grateful that Methodist churches in the region can cooperate to help more neighbors through this ‘Hardy Sharing Fund’ agreement, and we will strive to expand this project to other areas within Seoul.”

Lee Gi-jae, Mayor of Yangcheon-gu, said, “I sincerely thank the pastors and congregation members of the Yangcheon District Conference of the Seoul Southern Annual Conference of the Korean Methodist Church for taking the lead in caring for the difficulties of the medically vulnerable through the ‘Hardy Sharing Fund’ agreement,” adding, “We will continue to actively promote public-private cooperation projects that strengthen welfare competitiveness to create a warm city, Yangcheon.”

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