Hanam Operates Gyeonggi Province's First 'Water Play Experience Day for Children with Disabilities'

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The reality is that children with disabilities often find it difficult to comfortably enjoy water parks due to concerns over safety accidents. In response, Hanam, Gyeonggi Province, has prepared a special water play experience day for children with disabilities and their families.

Reporter Yu Yeong-su has the story.

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Children play excitedly in a water park, swimming and splashing around in the water.

With bright faces, the children enjoying the water are all children with disabilities, most of whom have developmental disabilities.

Hanam organized this "Water Play Experience Day for People with Disabilities" for children with disabilities and their families, who usually face difficulties using water facilities due to safety concerns and caregiving burdens.

Some 120 children enjoyed water play comfortably and freely without having to worry about others at the exclusive water park today.

[Seo Hana and Maeng Seo-jun / Hanam, Gyeonggi Province: Because of the worry that our child might be a nuisance to others, it is not easy to go around. I think it is wonderful that today became an opportunity for our children to play amongst themselves.]

For the first time in Gyeonggi Province, Hanam opened a public children's water park exclusively for children with disabilities and their families on its closing days twice in July and August of this year.

[Kim Mal-sun, Chairperson / Korea Association of Parents of Persons with Disabilities, Hanam Branch: Friends with developmental or intellectual disabilities, especially adolescent and young adult friends, have an even greater desire to use water play facilities. Therefore, I hope they can create a space where even teenage and adult friends can enjoy themselves for a day.]

[Lee Hyun-jae / Mayor of Hanam: We are also setting aside specific times for people with disabilities to use regular swimming pools so that they can swim and engage in other activities better. We plan to expand these programs even further moving forward.]

Hanam and the city council announced plans to further expand the frequency of operations and scale next year.

(Video by In Pil-seong)
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