Seoul YWCA

  It's fall in Korea and we are enjoying the just appropriate weather and clear sky. On the October 19th, Seoul YWCA hosted Big Flea Market at the YWCA parking lot.   A variety of goods and food were displayed everywhere in the market, they were relatively inexpensive. The special section of this year was low carbon agricultural products from local farmers. They sold pears, apples, cherry tomatoes, corns, rice that were cultivated by low carbon technology.  Also there were a lot of second-hand products from YWCA members. They looked still useful and very very cheap. All the profits are going to do good public programs in Seoul YWCA. We would like to thank all the participants to the Seoul YWCA's Big Flea Market. #seoulywca

    Particiaption in the Social Welfare Expo     Garak social welfare center participated in the National Social Welfare Expo in Olympic Park on the September 7th. Garak center demonstrated "Happy Inconvenience Movement(Energy Saving campaign)", "making natural mist for face", "protecting neighbors". This helped the community members know about Garak center and it was able to promote social activities Garak Center is doing.                    Teenager Music Festival Seongdong Youth Center hosted teenager music festival, "Radiate Youthfulness: Sing a Youth" on the September 2nd in the Wangsipli Square. 12 teams played divers music and showed their talent.        

  Gangnam Youth Center hosted  "Peaceful Gender Equality Campaign" for about 400 youth in the COEX Square on the September 16th. Participants had a look on cases of gender inequality in media like entertainment show, commercial, news, movies. They promised to take actions to realize gender equality in their daily life through this event.         

    Seoul YWCA hosted a movie talk event with Seoul Y members. The movie <GMO OMG> tells us we are unwittingly experimented by GMOs whose risks and effects to our health and the environment are unknown. After the movie, Ms. Park Jun Kyeong working for Han Sal Lim Life Co-op was invited to talk about staus quo of GMO in Korea and do Q&A session regarding GMOs.             

The picturesque photo was taken in the picnic of Y-teens on the 2nd September. Seoul's sky was clear and high enough for the Y-teens enjoyed the picnic. They got together to have group activity about peacebuilding. Since some of them met each other for the first time, so they needed icebreaking first. And they had a meal altogether and had a quiz game.       The purpose of this meeting was making good relationship among Y-teen members. Seoul YWCA hopes the Y-teens have more feelings of peace and YWCA.

Gangnam Youth Center implemented a variety of volunteering activities with the member students during the summer vacation in July and August. They visited a center for senior citizens and taught elementary school students. The volunteers experienced a community spirit through these activities.

Nowon Women Resources Development Center hosted a meeting for women's job with Seoul Metropolitan Government Council members(Oh seong rok, Lew cheong) on the July 20th and August 28th. Fifteen women resource development center's executive chiefs also participated in this meeting and shared opinions on each center's characteristic, each district's business, vision for raising women's employment, making better treatment in workplaces.