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💌MAP LETTER💌 brings you the activities and stories of MAP every month.
The weather has warmed up and summer is approaching. In April, too, MAP continued its work at many different sites.
What happened at MAP last April?
First news🖤 The 16th scholarship student’s plan to master Korean on the way to a dream
✅ Two Good Samaritan scholarship students were selected for the vocational education track!
The Refugee Youth Empowerment Scholarship team selected two students for the 16th Good Samaritan Scholarship in the vocational education track.
❓What is the Good Samaritan Scholarship❓ This scholarship program has been run by MAP and the Good Samaritan House since 2021 to support refugees’ higher education and vocational education, helping refugee youth and young adults living in Korea to strengthen their capacities.
🌱Please lend your support to the scholarship students on their journey toward their dreams! After improving their Korean at a university Korean language institute, the two students selected this time plan to take on an interpretation and counseling skills training program and an IT skills training program, respectively. It took a long time for the two, who had to start everything anew in Korea, to come to dream of vocational education.
Please give your warm encouragement to the two as they take a step forward with trembling hearts!✨✨
Second news🩵 Dialogue with Refugees @ Sudo Girls’ High School
✅ “Dialogue with Refugees” took place at Sudo Girls’ High School on April 14.
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🏫 Where refugees and students met On April 14, “Dialogue with Refugees” was held at the invitation of the “Future Sociology” course of the high school credit system at Sudo Girls’ High School in Seoul. The speaker, Naim, who visited the school that day, talked about growing up in Afghanistan and about the student movement of an ethnic minority, and discussed with the students how to solve the difficulties faced by refugees seeking asylum.
Third news💚 So that we can grow together – Home visits to refugee children’s families
✅ From northern to southern Gyeonggi, we visited 10 households.
MAP supports child-rearing, childcare and medical expenses by working with refugee children’s families so that refugee children can grow up healthy.
In April, the Humanitarian Assistance Team made home visits to the families of refugee children who are accompanied by MAP. Starting in northern Gyeonggi and going down to southern Gyeonggi, we met 10 households in 5 cities. We also delivered small gifts for Children’s Day🎁
We checked the local environment where the children are growing up, and discussed with their guardians the difficulties that stand in the way of the children’s healthy growth.
MAP’s home visits will continue in May and June!🚗💨💨
Fourth news🩷 We attended the 21st “Boisabi Festival”!
✅ A record of our visit to “Boisabi,” the festival of the Jumma people of Bangladesh
On April 19, we attended the “Boisabi (BOI·SA·BI) Festival,” the New Year festival of the Jumma people of Bangladesh, held at Hangang New Town Lake Park.
This year’s Boisabi Festival was the 21st, and it is also a cultural event rooted in the Gimpo community.
🔥A festival full of energy The mayor of Gimpo, international organizations, civic groups, religious groups and local residents joined Jumma refugees and many other participants, adding to the meaning of the festival.
After traditional performances by Jumma families and a K-pop performance by the children, people enjoyed sharing holiday food and trying on traditional clothing. Together with the voices of people exchanging New Year greetings and chatting, the venue was lively from beginning to end🔥🔥
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May marks the start of summer. We hope you stay healthy!🌼🌼
Thank you!