WEMAP: Meet MAP’s volunteers for the first half of 2024 🙂 Meet Jang Na-gyeong, the volunteer who has joined “Support for the Project to Improve Refugees’ Access to Information”🥰
Q1. Please give a brief introduction of yourself!
Hello! I am Jang Na-gyeong, and I have joined MAP as a volunteer for the first half of 2024. I am in charge of producing Refugee News this time. This is my first volunteer experience, so I may be inexperienced, but I am happy to have the chance to learn a lot from the people I work with and to grow together.
Q2. Please share why you applied to MAP 🙂
As conflicts and disputes escalate around the world, I think international cooperation to respond to refugee issues has become even more important.
At the Global Refugee Forum, our government announced plans to continue official development assistance for the self-reliance and integration of displaced people, to address the root causes of refugee crises by strengthening the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, and to expand refugee resettlement programs and higher education programs for refugee students. I applied to be a volunteer because I thought this relates to the help that the recipients of development cooperation need, a field I want to study further in graduate school. I look forward to gaining direct experience in this area through my work at MAP!
Q3.What gives you small but certain happiness?
I feel happiest when I exercise while listening to loud music or when I lie alone in bed and rest.
Q4. Finally, what change do you want to bring about through your work at MAP?
By producing Refugee News so that refugees can access accurate and useful information at the right time, I hope to help guarantee their basic rights. Through activities that build refugees’ capacity, I also want to help lay the groundwork for each of them to become self-reliant.