Gyeonggi Province to Support Child Care for Underprivileged Families

Gyeonggi Province announced on the 4th that it will support child care for married immigrant families and families with disabled children.

For married immigrant families, women married immigrants among recipients of basic national livelihood benefits or near-poor households with children aged from infants to 12 years old will be eligible for assistance.

The province plans to place household support helpers at three centers: the Ansan Healthy Family Support Center, which serves a dense immigrant population, and the Anseong and Namyangju Married Immigrant Family Support Centers.

Seven helpers at each support agency will assist 35 families, providing child care support to a total of 105 households.

Additionally, the province will dispatch helpers to households raising children under 18 with developmental disabilities, intellectual disabilities, or cerebral palsy, while also operating a caregiver respite support program.

Gyeonggi Province plans to select helper training programs, business implementation agencies, and target families this month, with full-scale support to begin next month.

A provincial official stated, "Families of married immigrants or those raising disabled children face greater financial hardship because parents are unable to work properly due to childcare burdens," adding "by supporting childcare, we will protect the rights and interests of these vulnerable groups."