American Family to receive Honorary Foreign Resident Award for Cleaning Wrecked Beach after Typhoon Chaba
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Suyeong-gu office announced it has decided to honor Deanna Rupert, 38, and her 13-year-old daughter Fiona and five-year-old daughter Stella, who voluntarily cleaned Gwangalli Beach in the wake of typhoon Chaba earlier this month.
Rupert and her daughters saw that Gwangalli Beach was strewn with rubbish when typhoon Chaba receded on Oct. 5 and came back with cleaning equipment to help clean it up for four hours.
Rupert is currently working at the Busan International Foreign School as a teacher. The cleaning started with Rupert’s daughter Fiona’s suggestion, having been influenced by an “Environmental Pollution” class she took at the school.
The story was made public after a passer-by took a picture of them working and the photo spread through social media and touched the hearts of Koreans across the country. Some passers-bys at the scene joined them in their clean-up efforts.
Various social media sites, broadcasts on the news and daily newspapers have also praised the mother and daughters, praising them as good examples for others to follow.
Mrs. Rupert resides in Millak-dong, Suyeong-gu, where she thinks it has a safe and convenient living environment for residents with a beautiful beach, bike paths and more.
The honorary foreign resident award will be given at Sumi Elementary School on October 30, 2016 at 10:00AM.
For more information, please contact the Suyeong-gu Office at (051)610-4072.
