Gwangju Nam-gu Launches Health Drink Support for Low-Income Disabled Children

Nam-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City, will carry out a project to provide workbooks and health drinks to low-income children with disabilities in the area to reduce the educational gap among children from vulnerable households in the community during the Year of the Rabbit.

On the 29th, Nam-gu announced, "To improve the learning ability and health management of children with disabilities from basic livelihood security and near-poverty households, we will invest 19.45 million KRW from the district budget next year to provide monthly workbooks and health drinks."

The project to support workbooks and health drinks for low-income children with disabilities aims to alleviate the economic burden related to education and health management for children from vulnerable families. It was established to build a social safety net to close the educational gap and to support the healthy development of growing children.

The support targets children with disabilities from basic livelihood security households, near-poverty households, and vulnerable families under case management. Children who are preschoolers as well as students enrolled in elementary, middle, and high schools can receive workbooks and health drinks.

Since this is a critical growth period, Nam-gu will provide health drinks four times a week to 57 children with disabilities from January 1 to December 31 next year to promote healthy physical development. Additionally, 25 children will receive workbooks once a week to enhance their learning ability and motivation.

The workbook subjects include seven areas: Korean, English, Mathematics, Reading, Science, Foreign Languages, and Hanja. Each child can choose one subject to receive support for one year.

In particular, to facilitate smooth learning for children with disabilities in the district, Nam-gu will dispatch workbook instructors to each household once a week to provide one-on-one individualized education. If there are two or more children with disabilities in one household, all children will be supported.

Moreover, if children with disabilities wish to receive both workbooks and health drinks, active support will be provided.

A Nam-gu official stated, "Children recommended by the 17 administrative welfare centers in the district were selected as beneficiaries," adding, "We are gradually increasing the related project budget every year so that more students can benefit."

Previously, from 2021 to this year, Nam-gu has consistently supported health drinks for 200 children with disabilities in the district over the past three years and has provided workbooks annually to about 80 children.

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