Geumcheon-gu to Provide Lunch at Senior Centers Five Days a Week Starting May 14

Geumcheon Senior Club and Geumcheon Regional Self-Support Center Sign MOU to Provide Meals to 60 Senior Centers

Geumcheon-gu (Mayor Yu Seong-hoon) announced that starting from May 14, meals will be provided for lunch five days a week at 60 senior centers.

To provide lunch five days a week at senior centers, the district signed a business agreement on the 10th with Geumcheon Senior Club and Geumcheon Community Self-Support Center. Through this agreement, Geumcheon Senior Club (Good Lunchbox Project Team) and Geumcheon Community Self-Support Center (Matdream Project Team) will provide lunch meals according to the number of users surveyed in advance for each senior center, and after the meal, they will collect leftover food and dishes all at once.

Previously, the district conducted a demand survey on lunch operation methods targeting a total of 74 senior centers in the area to expand lunch services, which were operated an average of 10 times a month. As a result of the survey, 60 senior centers wished to operate lunch five days a week via meal delivery, and 6 centers preferred autonomous operation.

With the expansion of lunch services, about 1,300 elderly people will be able to have lunch five days a week without worry.

At the 60 senior centers that requested meal delivery, food with balanced nutrition will be provided based on menus prepared by nutritionists tailored to the elderly. Additionally, 6 senior centers that decided to autonomously expand lunch operations will receive additional subsidies for side dishes.

Yu Seong-hoon, Mayor of Geumcheon-gu, said, “Through providing lunch five days a week at senior centers, we hope that elderly people who have difficulty preparing meals can eat at nearby senior centers, meet each other, check on each other’s well-being, and continue to enjoy a healthy leisure life.”