Gyeonggi-do to Invest 72.5 Billion Won This Year to Create 9,163 Jobs for People with Disabilities

Gyeonggi Province will invest 72.5 billion KRW to create over 9,100 jobs for people with disabilities.

On the 5th, Gyeonggi Province announced that it plans to promote 27 disability job projects this year, allocating a related budget of 72.5 billion KRW, which is 4.9 billion KRW more than last year. Through this, the province aims to create a total of 9,163 jobs for people with disabilities.

First, to expand social participation and ensure stable income for people with disabilities, Gyeonggi Province will implement a total of 4,944 disability job projects including administrative assistants for basic local governments, library assistant librarians, disabled parking zone monitors, environmental cleanup, school meal assistants, as well as specialized jobs such as dispatching masseurs for the visually impaired and assistants for developmental disability care workers. This is the largest scale nationwide.

Additionally, customized disability job contest projects will be conducted to support the development of various vocational skills and employment for people with severe disabilities.

Gyeonggi Provincial Government

Furthermore, the placement standard for vocational training teachers for people with disabilities using vocational rehabilitation facilities will be changed to one teacher per eight people, aiming to improve the quality of vocational training and rehabilitation services so that people with disabilities can find jobs suited to their abilities and aptitudes.

Other initiatives include specialized vocational training and employment linkage for jobs such as advanced vocational training for visually impaired masseurs, vocational rehabilitation education projects for people with severe disabilities, taxi driver training projects, and training for assistive device managers for people with developmental disabilities.

Kim Hana, Director of Welfare at Gyeonggi Province, said, "We are continuously creating jobs specialized in specific duties by strengthening collaboration with related organizations for disability employment. We will do our best to activate employment for people with disabilities by providing more opportunities, more equitable opportunities, and better opportunities."

Meanwhile, Gyeonggi Province achieved significant results through disability job projects last year.

A, a visually impaired person living in Suwon, faced a bleak future due to blindness but succeeded in becoming economically independent from basic livelihood security recipients after obtaining a masseur license with the help of the Gyeonggi Province Association for the Visually Impaired and participating in the province’s masseur dispatch project.

B, an intellectually disabled person living in Bucheon, met C, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, through a program at a disability welfare center. Both had mental disabilities and were hesitant to start a family. However, after participating in Gyeonggi Province’s customized disability job project, they were able to secure stable income, got married last year, and are now actively involved in community volunteer activities, living a new life.

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