In a society where economic development is a priority, there are also many people who need more caring from us. As an award that focuses on the overall development of the city, in many previous initiatives of Guangzhou Award, the living conditions of many vulnerable groups have been improved a lot. Let's review these heart-warming initiatives with Guangzhou Award Secretariat!

•To promote inclusion policies with the intention that some displaced people will be enabled to return to the municipality; and to provide employment to poor people for housing intervention.

Seferihisar, Turkey

The Public Card is as a welfare activity coherent with the Sustainable Development Goals. The project has a mission of supporting people in need without exposing their condition to the community. As the municipality we are fully devoted to our duties as fighting against poverty, improving the quality of life and enabling social and educational equity. Therefore, the public card has been and will continue to be a powerful means to help these causes. The project has also contributed a lot to the development of small-scale retailers.

•To support mentoring services and empowerment groups for siblings of children with special needs, a group for grandmothers of children with special needs, extending informal activities

At first, our aim was to reach at least 30 disabled children and their parents. We aimed to convince them that they can overcome the difficulties. We reached this aim, and then we started to reach 80 disabled people and their parents. We supported the teenagers to find jobs and helped them to gain their self-confidence. They feel themselves normal just like the other people in the community. Anymore, they know the disabilities cannot stop them. We continue our initiative with the new people and their parents.