Suncheon-si, Realizing Cooperative Welfare! Promoting the 'Home-Clean Project'

Realizing Pumasi Welfare Where Neighbors Address Each Other's Housing Welfare Issues

[Suncheon=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Suncheon City, Jeollanam-do, is taking active steps to improve the living environment for vulnerable groups who have difficulty cleaning their homes due to mobility issues such as disabilities or who live in poor housing conditions with long-term garbage accumulation.

On the 10th, Suncheon City announced that instead of continuing with the one-time housing environment improvement projects conducted annually, from this year onward, it will expand into a citizen-experience welfare project called the ‘Home-Clean Project,’ which links the Clean (cleaning) Project, the Ureonggaksi Project, and citizen participation.

The Clean (cleaning) Project will collaborate with the Suncheon Regional Self-Support Center’s ‘The Clean’ team to provide specialized cleaning and professional disinfection services, and after the cleaning is completed, housekeeping services will be provided through follow-up management under the Ureonggaksi Project.

This ‘Home-Clean Project’ will be promoted through public-private cooperation with volunteers participating each time to activate citizen participation, realizing a mutual aid welfare system where neighbors solve neighbors’ problems together.

In particular, the ‘Home-Clean Project’ will involve the Eup, Myeon, and Dong Our Neighborhood Welfare Task Force members (Jeonnam-type Living Welfare Safety Net), who will directly participate in solving local residents’ daily inconvenience issues and contribute to eliminating welfare blind spots.

The city will start the Clean Project on the 9th with a disabled household in Wangjo 1-dong, followed by Seomyeon on the 10th, and Byeollyang-myeon on the 18th, targeting vulnerable housing groups.

A representative from Suncheon City’s Disability Welfare Division said, “This project is possible thanks to the participation of volunteers, and we hope it will be widely shared as a good example of mutual aid welfare where local problems are solved by the community itself. Starting with the Clean Project, we will do our best to discover and support more people around us who have difficulty cleaning their homes on their own.”

Meanwhile, Suncheon City selected a total of 13 households as ‘Home-Clean Project’ beneficiaries through a full survey conducted until March this year, and in February, signed a business agreement with the Suncheon Regional Self-Support Center’s ‘The Clean’ team to promote welfare improvement for vulnerable housing groups and activate citizen participation.

In the second half of the year, a second full survey for the ‘Home-Clean Project’ will be conducted to further enhance housing welfare for more vulnerable groups.