Through efforts of Muhandolbom Welfare Center’s Welfare Blind Spot Identification Team, total number of potential recipient identification cases increased 449% year-on-year

◇ The Welfare Blind Spot Identification Team of the Muhandolbom Welfare Center produced tangible results within only 100 days of its launch. Pictured: Muhandolbom Caregiver appointment ceremony at the Gyeonggi Provincial Academy in March. ⓒ Gyeonggi G-News

A Vietnamese marriage immigrant (Siheung City), who has a boy born in 2012, was in a predicament as her husband had passed away due to tuberculosis. Discovered by the Welfare Blind Spot Identification Team, she was able to receive financial support for medical and funeral service expenses for her husband as well as for living expenses. As she continues to live in Korea with her son, Gyeonggi Province and the Muhandolbom Welfare Center in Siheung City agreed to help her to raise her son and to be self-supporting.

In only 100 days after its launch on April 28 to identify potential recipients, the Welfare Blind Spot Identification Team of the Muhandolbom Welfare Center has produced tangible results.

Compared with the same period last year before the launch of the team, the number of households visited has tripled from 5,216 to 15,748, and the number of households receiving support from Muhandolbom to overcome crises jumped 449% from 1,770 to 8,826.

Muhandolbom caregivers, appointed to further strengthen networks in the identification of blind spots, have reported an impressive 1,291 cases. The team has made visits to municipal governments twice a week to emphasize the importance of identifying welfare blind spots and has pursued efforts to reflect voices from the field. 

“We have implemented itinerant training sessions for Muhandolbom caregivers, who are comprised of 25,000 leaders of neighborhood associations and women’s associations in towns, and are strengthening networks, and our efforts have come to fruition,” said the director of the Muhandolbom Welfare Center of Gyeonggi Province, Kim Mun-hwan. “We will continue to make efforts in identifying welfare blind spots as well as raising private funds and improving systems to support families in crisis.”

ⓒ Gyeonggi G-News | Lee Jun-kyun eyekle@hanmail.net

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