Seoul YWCA

As part of the Seoul YWCA’s Myanmar Women's Empowering Project, the Women Development Center in Thanduanggyi, has been successfully extended. Furthermore, a baseline survey will be carried out in July. It aims to gather information about the basic living standards of the residents and their demand for vocational training. From June 22 to 23, Myanmar YWCA conducted training of enumerators using Messenger Rooms, an online conference platform, due to the ban on inter-regional travel and gatherings in the village, which are the countermeasures against Covid-19. Ten young people who are fluent in Bwe Karen language, Myanmar language and proficient in Internet use were selected as local enumerators for the baseline survey. National YWCA of Myanmar shared the goal and details of the “Myanmar Women's Empowering Project” with enumerators. In addition, they were trained on survey ethics, what to do during door-to-door surveys, what should be done (providing detailed guidanc

Hello:) Seoul YWCA is hosting English Access Microscholarship Program(Access) sponsored by U.S. State Department. Access is an educational program which makes North Korean Students in South Korea improve their English ability in line with raising their global leadership. As usual, Access is running in The Great Vision School in this year. Originally it should have started in April, but the impact of COVID-19 has prevented us from having 2020 Access Opening Ceremony until May, 2020. Thus, we managed to have it yesterday, on June 1st. At the opening ceremony, there were 40 guests including Seoul YWCA staffs, students in the Great Vision School and teachers. Students cheerfully participated in the introduction session of Seoul YWCA and Access program itself. First, they watched a video where the president in Seoul YWCA, Ms.Lee Yoo Lim, encouraged their start. Then, they listened to a diplomat in the American embassy, Mr.Aaron Tarver, who said “Hello” in Korean clearly, ch

                                             <Before the extension>                                                  <During the extension> Even though the sky road is almost blocked by Covid-19, Seoul YWCA international cooperation department's <Sharing and Dreams(Women empowerment project in Myanmar)> is taking a step forward with Myanmar YWCA's close cooperation. In Thandaunggyi, Karen State, Myanmar, the Sharing and Dreams project site, people cannot gather due to the social distancing policy designated by Myanmar government, but the extension of Women Development Center where sewing training, hospitality training, and gender equality education will take place in the future is now under construction. Built as a single-floor building in 2019, Women Development Center can accommodate up to only 25 people. An additional floor built through extension will allow more space so that women participating in training can be provided with care services in a