"Cool and Safe Summer"... Hope Bridge Delivers Heatwave Response Kits to Vulnerable Groups

Shin Hoon, Secretary General of Hope Bridge (left), is taking a commemorative photo with Choi Sang-jin, Director of Yeomni Comprehensive Social Welfare Center (center), and Jin Se-geun, Auditor of Hope Bridge (right) at the ceremony for delivering climate disaster heatwave and infection response kits. Photo by Hope Bridge

The Hope Bridge National Disaster Relief Association (President Song Pil-ho) announced on the 5th that it will deliver 15,800 “Cool Welcome Kits,” worth 1 billion KRW, consisting of daily necessities and infection prevention supplies, to 188 social welfare facilities nationwide for disaster-vulnerable groups such as homeless people, persons with disabilities, and the elderly who are vulnerable to summer heatwaves and infections.

The “Cool Welcome Kits” were selected through a preliminary on-site demand survey with social welfare facility officials and include ▲10 types of daily necessities such as cooling fans, fans, and cool towels ▲6 types of infection prevention items such as masks, hand sanitizing wipes, and hand sanitizers ▲3 types of food items including probiotics, effervescent vitamins, and barley tea. On the day the supplies were received from Hope Bridge, Choi Sang-jin, director of Yeomni Comprehensive Social Welfare Center in Mapo-gu, said, “We are grateful to receive kits containing essential items for disaster-vulnerable groups,” adding, “They will provide great comfort and help to those whose immunity has weakened due to heatwaves and various illnesses.”

Shin Hoon, Secretary General of Hope Bridge, said, “The nature of disasters such as heatwaves, extreme heavy rains, and new infectious diseases like COVID-19 is becoming increasingly diverse and complex, which hits vulnerable groups even harder,” and added, “Hope Bridge will closely cooperate with local governments and related organizations from the perspective of preventive disaster welfare and will carefully attend to the real difficulties of neighbors including disaster-vulnerable groups.”

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