Suwon City Deliberates on First Half 2024 Child Meal Support Committee

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Jung Jun-seong] Suwon Special City held a deliberation meeting of the Child Meal Support Committee for the first half of 2024 on the 18th at the small conference room of the Suwon Agricultural and Fisheries Products Wholesale Market Management Building, and decided to provide meal support to 28 children in welfare blind spots.

Ahead of summer vacation, the city conducted a comprehensive survey of 3,417 eligible children for meal support and identified 83 children at risk of missing meals. At the deliberation meeting, the Child Meal Support Committee decided to provide meal support to 28 children who do not meet the meal support criteria but are deemed to need meal support due to the risk of missing meals.

Currently, the city provides meals to 1,372 children using G Dream Cards and 1,791 children using community child centers, supporting their healthy growth.

Meanwhile, the Child Meal Support Committee, established in 2005, deliberates on matters including investigation and selection of children eligible for meal support and monitoring and improvement of the child meal support project implementation. It is composed of 13 members, including 3 ex officio members and 10 appointed members.

A city official stated, "The child meal support project is an essential program to prevent children from missing meals during their growth period and to improve their nutritional status," and added, "We will actively identify children at risk of missing meals and support their healthy physical and mental development by providing meal support."