Jobs for Seniors and Fire Safety for Vulnerable Groups

HF signs an MOU with Busan and KOWDI

Korea Housing Finance Corporation (HF, CEO Lee Jung-Hwan) announced on the 28th that it has signed an MOU with Busan Metropolitan City and Korea Older Worker Development Institute (KOWDI) at Busan Metropolitan City Hall in Yeonje-gu, Busan. Under the title of ‘Senior Job Project for Installing Fire Safeguards for Vulnerable Households,’ the MOU aims to promote job creation for seniors and fire safety in homes.

According to the MOU, HF is going to contribute KRW 400 million to the project, which will hire 400 Busan citizens aged 60 or older as fire safety keepers. During the two-month project, these senior fire safety keepers will ▲install fire extinguishers, smoke detectors, and other fire safeguards in 12,000 disable, low-income, or other households vulnerable to fire, ▲instruct these households on how to use them, and ▲ offer safety education. Busan Metropolitan City and KOWDI will also provide KRW 200 million to help with the purchase of fire safeguards and uniforms and other operational aspects of the project. 

HF CEO Lee Jung-Hwan said, “This project leverages a link between disaster and other safety issues for households vulnerable to fire and senior job creation. We will do our best not only to build it into a successful model of collaboration between local governments and public institutions, but also to deliver other various forms of welfare services to underprivileged groups.”