Busan Mayor Park Hyung-jun Becomes a 'One-Day Santa'... Leading the 'Warm and Happy City Busan' Initiative

Visit to Parangsae Children’s Home and Cheonghak Moja-won Single-Parent Family Welfare Facility at 2:30 PM on the 24th

Mayor Park: “We will do our best to create a warm community where citizens feel greater happiness and stability”

Mayor Park Hyung-jun will take the lead in creating a warm community atmosphere during the year-end and New Year holidays by visiting child care facilities and single-parent family welfare facilities consecutively at 2:30 p.m. on the 24th, ahead of Christmas.

Busan Mayor Park Hyung-jun is participating as the chief Santa in the "18th 2024 Green Umbrella Santa Expedition." Provided by Busan City

Mayor Park will become a 'One-Day Santa' and visit the child care facility 'Parangsae Children’s Home (located in Yeongdo-gu)'. He will spend time communicating with the children by personally delivering Christmas presents.

He will also encourage the hard work of the facility staff, inspect the living environment and facilities, and urge warm care and self-reliance support so that the children, who are the future leaders of Busan, can grow up well.

This year, the city invested about 29 billion KRW in operating expenses for 20 child care facilities located in the district to support children to grow up in a stable environment. Regarding pocket money for children in facilities, the city raised the amount by 2,000 KRW for middle school students to 30,000 KRW per month and by 3,000 KRW for high school students to 43,000 KRW per month, continuously working on measures to increase the life satisfaction of resident children.

‘Parangsae Children’s Home’ was established in 1958 to care for 50 war orphans and has been helping children in need of protection to grow up and become independent with confidence to this day.

Mayor Park will visit 'Cheonghak Moja-won (located in Yeongdo-gu)', a single-parent family welfare facility, to directly check whether policies that guarantee stable living conditions and strengthen the self-reliance foundation for single-parent families are being felt on the ground.

Mayor Park will have an open and honest communication with single-parent families, discuss various difficulties such as childcare and the city’s support policies for single-parent families, and also gather opinions from the on-site workers of the single-parent family welfare facility.

The city has been providing support for low-income single-parent families, including child-rearing expenses for single parents and teenage single parents, and this year supported operating expenses of about 3.9 billion KRW for nine single-parent family welfare facilities in the district. Since 2021, the city has also been operating the ‘Single-Parent Family Support Project Group’ to provide various counseling and housekeeping services.

‘Cheonghak Moja-won’ was established in 1955 and has been running various programs to support the self-reliance of single-parent families, currently housing mother-child families.

Mayor Park Hyung-jun said, “The year-end and New Year holidays are a time to reflect on the meaning of sharing and solidarity. Through meticulous and seamless care for people’s livelihoods, we will strive to establish a sustainable welfare foundation beyond simple one-time efforts so that citizens can feel greater happiness and stability.” He added, “We will continue to do our best to spread the warmth of the local community through volunteering and donations throughout Busan, creating a warm community where everyone cooperates together.”

The city is currently implementing the ‘Comprehensive Winter Livelihood Stability Measures,’ which include 60 detailed tasks in four areas: sharing welfare, citizen safety, citizen health, and citizen life. It is strengthening care support for vulnerable groups to ensure no citizen is left out during the year-end, supporting private fundraising such as sharing campaigns, and working hard to spread a warm atmosphere of sharing.

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