Sharing Winter Supplies for Underprivileged Groups in Yeongdeungpo-gu Filled with Warmth and Kindness

Distribution of Volunteer-Made Scarves and Sock Yarn Cushions in Yeongdeungpo Squalid Village on the 14th
Supported by Three Organizations Including Shalom Sharing Association, Alongside Free Noodle Serving Volunteer Work
Volunteer Center Conducts Various Services... "Committed to Helping the Underprivileged Have a Warm Winter"

A volunteer is delivering winter supplies to residents of small rooms.

Yeongdeungpo-gu (District Mayor Choi Ho-kwon) Volunteer Center announced that on the 14th at noon, volunteers personally distributed donated items in the Yeongdeungpo jjokbangchon (goshit village).

This distribution of goods was carried out with the support of local organizations Shalom Nanumhoe, Big Tree, and Apartment Volunteer Group in preparation for the winter season.

The distributed items included ▲100 scarves ▲50 sock cushions ▲100 cereals ▲100 scrubbers, and the significance lies in the fact that volunteers made and handed out the items themselves.

On the day, the distribution was promoted alongside the free noodle meal service conducted by Shalom Nanumhoe and Jogye Order in the Yeongdeungpo jjokbangchon. After serving noodles to the residents of the jjokbangchon, the prepared items were distributed, and volunteers also visited some households to personally deliver certain goods.

Shalom Nanumhoe and Jogye Order provide free noodle meal services to jjokbangchon residents every Thursday. During Lunar New Year, they deliver rice cake soup, and in summer, samgyetang (ginseng chicken soup), practicing warm sharing for socially vulnerable groups.

The Yeongdeungpo-gu Volunteer Center has annually identified marginalized groups during winter and promoted volunteer activities such as briquette delivery, kimchi sharing, winter hope box distribution (including 13 items such as agricultural products, sleeping socks, instant foods), scarves for elderly who collect scrap paper, and Christmas gift delivery to local children's centers.

Especially this year, the support achievements of volunteer groups registered at the Volunteer Center stand out. Various groups including Big Tree, Apartment Volunteer Group, Shalom Nanumhoe, and Yeongdeungpo-gu Social Welfare Council participated in sponsorship, providing frozen foods, rice, food ingredients, children's toys, and women's products for autonomous crime prevention teams, small libraries, jjokbangchon, and volunteer fire brigades.

Additionally, the Volunteer Center is planning to distribute winter hope boxes linked with corporate social contribution activities in the region so that marginalized groups can spend a warm winter during the upcoming year-end.

Choi Ho-kwon, Mayor of Yeongdeungpo-gu, stated, “Small hands coming together become a great force moving toward a better local community,” and added, “We ask for the interest and support of many so that no neighbors are left out and everyone can spend a warm year-end together.”

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