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제목 June 2016 등록일 2016.07.05 10:44
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<There's one child>


Six month has passed since the dawn of 2016.

We would like to ponder about the meaning of our social cooperative organization through the story of one child from our center.


There's one child.


He was born into a multicultural as well as a North Korean refugee family. His parents seemed to have a hard time adjusting to our South Korean society, so they were not able to take good care of their child and their family was in bad circumstances.


When we first met him, he had difficulty adapting to his kindergarten environment. He ate food only by his hands, refusing to use spoons or chopsticks, and his only method of communication was through yelling, screaming, or hitting another child.


We offered this child <sand play therapy>. When he got better mentally and emotionally, he started to learn Hangeul and participated in art class program, and later, he also started to learn the piano at our Saturday School sessions.


Then he moved to the country following his mother who had to move there to provide for her family. After 2 years, he returned to Seoul early this year.


His grandmother seriously asked us to provide therapy for this child since his condition got worse after he entered elementary school in the countryside. His grandmother told us that he had to undergo rough times when he entered elementary school, an environment where nobody tried to help him, and he returned to the initial stage of his mental illness. This child would say that he missed our ‘Happy Move’ volunteers who used to play with him.


So since this January we carried out both individual therapy sessions and group art therapy, which is conducted every Saturday morning. Of course, he met our ‘Happy Move’ volunteers again. On top of this, he received textbooks and exercise books for this first semester from one of our Saturday School volunteer teachers, and one of our supporter families sent this child loads of clothes and shoes.


After he got well again with the help of art therapy, his performance improved at the Saturday School Program (Piano lesson, Art class, and school learning).


So starting from April, he proceeded to learn the violin for 10 weeks. And last week, he went skating for the first time in his life with ‘Happy Move’ volunteers.


Now, we have decided to try a new project starting from this month. After our art therapy sessions are finished, we are planning to begin <Exercise mentoring>. We would like to encourage our children to gain more confidence, relieve their stress, and learn some necessary manners as they exercise with our university student volunteers every week. We have already started our first lesson!!


Note: We are now raising funds for our summer vacation trip to Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, ‘Anthony Browne Exhibition.’ Please become a sponsor of this upcoming event so that our children could see this world-famous artist’s works. We have a total of 30children and we also need tickets for our volunteers and mothers as well. And we are also in need of weekday volunteers who could help us take our children to the museum. Thank you once more for all of your support~!

We appreciate all supporters and volunteers who make our work possible. Thank you.



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