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Gwangju Metropolitan
City is implementing the ‘maternal care service’ from their home countries to
support multicultural families who have given birth to mothers.
The target are marriage
immigrant women or Goryeo-in women living in Gwangju City who are giving birth
or are planning to give birth.
The service can be used
within 5 hours per day per household, for a total of 70 hours, and is free of
charge. Applications and services are available year-round.
Maternal caregivers are
from the mother's home country, and they help mothers and newborns with
nutrition, laundry, bathing and caring for newborns, and provide various
information necessary for childcare, including information on health management
and basic vaccinations for newborns.
In this regard, the city
of Gwangju is recruiting 30 married migrant women or Korean-Korean women to
work as maternal caregivers this year.
Women who have lived in
Korea for 3 years or more and have had children for more than 1 year and have
communication skills equivalent to level 3 or higher in the Korean Language Proficiency
Test can apply.
The application period
is from January 19th to February 4th, and selection is made through an
interview on February 7th. If selected as a maternal caregiver, they will work
as a carer after completing 35 hours of training.
The maternal caregiver
is provided with an activity allowance of 11,000 won per hour and
transportation expenses.
For more information on
service use application and maternal caregiver recruitment, please contact the
Buk-gu Family Center (Healthy Family Multicultural Family Support Center
062-363-2963).
Choi Seon-yeong, head of
the Gender Equality and Family Division, said, “We expect that the maternal
caregiver will provide warm care like the mother’s to migrant women who are
struggling due to language and cultural differences during childbirth, when
they miss their mothers the most. We will do our best to make it happen,”
Meanwhile, the Gwangju City multicultural family maternal care support project started in 2010 and has received services to a total of 1,209 families until last year. It also played a role in job creation for marriage immigrant women and was selected as a national best case study.
Reporter Song Hasung
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