{"id":52527,"date":"2022-08-09T16:36:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T07:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=52527"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:52:06","slug":"south-pyongan-province-moves-support-orphanages-cut-off-government-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/south-pyongan-province-moves-support-orphanages-cut-off-government-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Pyongan Province moves to support orphanages cut off from government aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">South Pyongan Province recently decided to support orphanages that are struggling due to the lack of government rations and other forms of support, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in the province told Daily NK on Monday that the provincial party committee laid out urgent measures to support the facilities as \u201cchildren are collapsing from hunger because nurseries and schools for orphans in South Pyongan Province have not been receiving supplies from the state.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, with the state cutting off rations and other forms of economic support for orphan care facilities in the province, children are going hungry and suffering from serious malnutrition and other diseases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The party committee of South Pyongan Province called in provincial cadres for an emergency meeting in late July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The meeting decided on three measures that are now being implemented.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The committee first decided that the families of provincial, city and county cadres should contribute rice, corn, beans and other grains to support orphan facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The grain department of the provincial people\u2019s committee has been tasked with taking charge of executing the policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The committee also decided that the medical teams of provincial hospitals and medical schools, as well as cadre families, should take the lead in collecting and sending medications, including household medications, to orphans in need. The heads of childcare facilities for orphans were told to submit detailed lists of children who receive medicine and the medicines they received for immediate submission to the committee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The committee also decided to conclude a cooperative agreement with North and South Hamgyong provinces to bring in seafood as regularly as possible from the coastal regions to bolster the children\u2019s immune systems and stave off malnutrition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In handing down these decisions, the provincial party committee also ordered that incompetant staff and bookkeepers of orphan care facilities be replaced for allowing the situation to get as bad as it has without taking measures in advance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The provincial party\u2019s cadre department carried out the personnel changes, the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe provincial party committee sacked all the bookkeepers who didn\u2019t properly take care of children\u2019s livelihoods and just whined, and all the incompetant staff who never once shared their opinion with the province and instead complained that the state and province are having a tough time and have no medicine to give, even as lots of children were dying,\u201d he explained.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source also said that the committee \u201cmercilessly rebuked\u201d the \u201cinhumanity\u201d of those who \u201cdidn\u2019t care if [the orphans] lived or died,\u201d despite the Workers\u2019 Party and Cabinet\u2019s emphasis on caring for children who have lost their parents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The committee\u2019s cadre department filled the new staff of the orphan care facilities with former military officers or people who worked for the provincial party committee. It also implored the new staff to talk with the committee and resolve problems together when they arise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said that the new staff reported to the committee that when they checked on the condition of the orphans, they found that \u201calmost none were of normal height or weight, and that children who had survived fevers were struggling because they didn&#8217;t receive proper meals.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220808-3\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Pyongan Province recently decided to support orphanages that are struggling due to the lack of government rations and other forms of support, Daily NK has learned. A source in the province told Daily NK on Monday that the provincial party committee laid out urgent measures to support the facilities as \u201cchildren are collapsing from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":38146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1360],"tags":[710,794],"class_list":["post-52527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society","tag-food-shortages","tag-south-pyongan-province"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>S. 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