We are looking for volunteers to join MAP!
We are waiting for people who will take part in MAP’s ten programs from February to June.
■ Recruitment areas
① Support for the project to improve refugees’ access to information
▶️ Purpose: We produce Refugee News in multiple languages and distribute it through the organization’s website, social media and the MAP text message alert service, so that refugees can access accurate and useful information at the right time.
▶️ Activities: Researching and writing news content, translating or connecting with volunteer translators, designing web posters
▶️ Requirements: Ability to speak English or a second foreign language, research and writing skills, ability to make web posters (Canva and so on)
② Support for operating the project that provides childrearing, childcare and medical cost support to refugee children
▶️ Purpose: We receive requests from refugee children’s families and support childrearing, childcare and medical costs. We promote the healthy growth of refugee children.
▶️ Activities: Home visits, support for program operation, support for communication among refugee families, childcare institutions and organizations
▶️ Requirements: Ability to speak English
③ Support for the scholarship project for refugee youth and young adults
▶️ Purpose: We support the operation of a program designed to strengthen the capacities of refugee youth and young adults through higher education and vocational education.
▶️ Activities: Support for program operation and communication
▶️ Requirements: Ability to speak English
④ Coordinating mental health and psychosocial support for refugees
▶️ Purpose: We receive counseling requests from refugees and provide timely and appropriate mental health and psychosocial support. We connect refugees with psychological counseling centers and medical institutions, and support medical interpretation and translation and medical costs.
▶️ Activities: Connecting with psychological counseling centers and medical institutions, schedule management, support for communication among refugees, staff of psychological counseling centers and medical institutions, and organizations
▶️ Requirements: Ability to speak English
⑤ Support for the capacity-building education program for newly arrived refugees
▶️ Purpose: We enable newly arrived refugees to take the education course [Living in Korea for Refugees], so that they clearly understand their rights and learn how to access available resources. We strengthen the capacities of refugees who experience an imbalance of information in every aspect of daily life because of social barriers and suffer various disadvantages as a result, and we enable refugees to adapt smoothly to society.
▶️ Activities: Researching and writing educational content, translating or connecting with volunteer translators, support for program operation and communication
▶️ Requirements: Ability to speak English, research and writing skills
⑥ Support for operating basic Korean language education for refugees
▶️ Purpose: We support the operation of a Korean language education program for refugees. We promote the empowerment of refugees by providing specialized Korean language education tailored to refugees.
▶️ Activities: Managing class schedules and supporting communication among refugee participants, volunteer teachers and organization staff
▶️ Requirements: Ability to speak English
⑦ Coordinating peace and human rights education with refugees
▶️ Purpose: Refugees visit schools, bookstores, public institutions and other places and tell their own life stories directly. The ultimate goal of this activity is to confront prejudice in society and to raise mutual understanding and respect between refugees and citizens.
▶️ Activities: Managing education scripts and schedules, interpretation or connecting with volunteer interpreters, promoting the program
▶️ Requirements: Ability to speak English
⑧ Producing a specialized newsletter on refugees and involuntary migrants
▶️ Purpose: To urge citizens’ attention and action on the issues of refugees and involuntary migration, we publish the biweekly newsletter Displaced. In the field of involuntary migration, we deliver accurate and timely news from a refugee-rights-friendly perspective.
▶️ Activities: Researching and writing/producing content
▶️ Requirements: Research and writing skills
⑨ Support for operating the academy for strengthening the capacities of refugee supporters
▶️ Purpose: By running a training program for activists who are refugees themselves and a webinar for strengthening the capacities of refugee protection practitioners, we strengthen the capacities of refugee supporters and lay the foundation for cooperation and solidarity with refugees and refugee communities.
▶️ Activities: Support for program operation and communication, webinar operation and technical support
▶️ Requirements: Ability to speak English, ability to run webinars (Zoom and so on)
⑩ PR (Public Relations)
▶️ Purpose: We produce content on the organization’s activities and issues and share news with citizens to expand solidarity.
▶️ Activities: Planning, uploading and managing content
▶️ Requirements: Ability to use social media and WordPress, video editing skills
■ Activity period: February to June 2023
* One day a week (7 hours); the day (Monday to Friday) and time (10:00 to 18:00) are to be agreed
* A volunteer orientation is planned for the first week of activities
■ Place of activity: the organization’s office (near Dongguk Univ. Station, Jung-gu, Seoul)
* In special circumstances, online activity is possible as an exception
* A volunteer certificate is provided, and lunch is provided for offline activities.
■ How and when to apply
① Application link: https://c11.kr/19qi5
② Application deadline: February 13, 2023
■ Recruitment schedule: February 13 | Application deadline
February 15 to February 16 | Online interview
February 17 | Results announced individually
■ Inquiries: Tel. 02-2038-0231, Email. map@mapcast.org
☑️ For details on the activity period and place and the recruitment procedure, please check the poster!