Suwon City Holds Meeting with Private Entrusted Organizations on Multicultural Family and Foreign Resident Policies

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] Suwon City held a 'private entrusted organization meeting to discuss the direction of multicultural family and foreign resident policies' at the Multicultural Policy Division of Suwon City Hall on the 23rd.

The meeting was held with attendance limited to key officials including Kim Mi-suk, Director of Suwon City's Multicultural Policy Division; Seol Dong-ju, Director of Suwon City Global Youth Dream Center; Lee Dae-hee, Director of Suwon City Multicultural Family Support Center; and Lee Jong-soon, Director of Suwon City Foreign Resident Welfare Center, while adhering to COVID-19 quarantine guidelines.

The three organizations promoting Suwon City's multicultural family and foreign resident support policies and projects—Suwon City Global Youth Dream Center, Suwon City Multicultural Family Support Center, and Suwon City Foreign Resident Welfare Center—shared their major second-half (fourth quarter) projects.

Suwon City Global Youth Dream Center decided to implement 'Smart Home Camping Life,' which provides camping kit packages to youth with limited outdoor activity opportunities due to COVID-19, the 'nutrition kit project' that provides nutritional supplements and food ingredients, and 'comprehensive adaptation education (online)' to help settle in the community.

Suwon City Multicultural Family Support Center plans to conduct traditional culture experience programs and Korean language education (online) for multicultural families. It also decided to support foreign residents with written and practical driving license exams.

Suwon City Foreign Resident Welfare Center will implement 'Happy Book Play,' an online reading mentoring program for children aged 9-10 from multicultural families, and the 'COVID-19 kit support' project, which provides groceries and masks to multicultural families experiencing financial difficulties.

Participants at the meeting said, "Although we face difficult circumstances due to the COVID-19 crisis, we will promote projects more actively through continuous communication and cooperation," and "Let us unite our efforts to create an inclusive city where domestic and foreign residents coexist."

Kim Mi-suk, Director of the Multicultural Policy Division, said, "I request substantive project implementation for the stable settlement of multicultural families and foreign residents who come to Suwon," and urged participation in "'proactive administration' to respond to the rapidly changing administrative environment."