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| Writer | Kim Nahae | ||
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| Phone number | ******** | ||
| Subject | Sabit-torae of Hanyoung Foreign High School in Gangdong Gu | ||
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Saebit-torae(세빛또래) is a club activity taking place in Hanyoung Foreign Language High school, located in Gangdong Gu. Saebit-toarae was made in 2008 for the purpose of encouraging students to actively participate in volunteer works. Students help children from multicultural families and low income families, hold campaigns regarding problems of the Japanese comfort women and human rights of North Korean defectors. This year, one of the major activities is visiting a non-profit organization, “KoRoot(뿌리의 집).” The representative of KoRoot, reverend Kim Do Hyun helps adopters and single mothers to go through a proper healing process. He introduces himself as a reverend that works outside the church. This year he was nominated for the Asia Philanthropy Awards (APA) that prizes people who voluntarily donated their time and talent to improve the quality of life in Asian countries. Today, there are many problems of foreign adoptions in Korea and KoRoot strives to solve them. Their major activities are providing non-profit guest house, arranging forums and meetings to help find the rights of adoptee, and operating a publishing company that publishes books related to children and maternity rights. Guest houses are provided for the foreign adoptee to visit their homeland. About 300 adoptees stay there for ten days every year. Also, KoRoot has published “해외 입양과 한국 민족주의(이삼돌),” “Outsiders within: writing on transracial adoption(Tobias Hubinette),” and “The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child(Nancy Newton Verrier).” Students of Hanyoung Foreign Language Highs School participated in translating the book, “The Primal Wound” in Korean. In November, students of Saebit-torae in Gangdong Gu are planning a campaign to enhance social welfare towards single mothers and their children. |
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