<Rainbow Dream - February News and New Hopes>

At our February 24 general meeting, members of Rainbow Dream have elected new board members who will manage and take charge of our association for two years. Our newly elected board members are as follows:

Chairman: Kim, Tae-Wan

Vice Chairman: Kim, Hyeng-Tae

Executive Director: Kim, Young-Hee

Board members: Kim, Seung-Young, Nam, Ki-Chang, Park, Yun-Ae,

                      Shin, Jun-Chul, Yoo, Keun-Hee, Kim, Jeong-Hyun

Auditor: Kim, Dong-Koo

For detailed information of board members, please refer to the ‘Rainbow Dream Staff’ section on our website.

In 2016, we will continue to offer our preexisting programs: <’Culture and Art’ Saturday School Program>, <Art Therapy Class>, <Counseling for Multicultural Children>. In addition, we are planning to launch two new projects, which are <Violin class> and <Publishing the first issue of Rainbow Dream Bulletin>.

Thanks to your attention and support, during the second half of last year, fundraising for <Violin Class> finally came to be completed.

Rainbow Dream has started working with multicultural families since 2010, and now we can proudly say that we have a sufficiently organized system for managing adequate, high quality programs to some extent. However, it is also true that we still do not receive enough media attention to generate in-depth discussions about the values and underlying philosophy of our organization, Rainbow Dream. We would like for as many people as possible to take interest in our social cooperative organization that represents and supports multicultural children and families in Korea. And it would be helpful if such media publicity could induce people to participate in government policy suggestions for multicultural families, making Korea a better place for such families and children to live in. These are the reasons for our starting the new project, <Publishing the first issue of Rainbow Dream Bulletin>.

In this bulletin, we will not be short of article materials to publish. There are wonderful volunteers at Rainbow Dream, the stories of whom we can write about, and the case studies our piano and art class volunteer teachers are working on would be of great value as well.

Recently our <Mothers’ Homeland Cultural Calendar for Multicultural Children-China and Vietnam> has came out, which we have been working on since last year. You can watch the process and overview of our calendar project through this Youtube video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdMEHsAQTL8

 If you would like to purchase this calendar from our organization and make it a present for Chinese or Vietnamese multicultural families around you, please contact us.

The calendar project was something new to us, so we had a hard time while working on it. We’d like to give a big thanks to Mi-Hyun Jeong (Youngshin Girls high school), who designed both covers of the Chinese version and the Vietnamese version.

We also appreciate the devoted services of Jong-Ho Kim (Myeonmokhigh school) and Hoe-Chun Lee(Kyunggi high school).

We express a deep gratitude to our mentor, Yang-ho Lee (History teacher of Purunsup Waldorf school), who improved and elevated the quality of our Mothers’ Homeland Calendar.