Korea

Help children in Korea thrive.

You can better the lives of vulnerable children living in Korea by providing essential resources and supporting foster care opportunities that facilitate healthy growth and maximize potential:

• Pyeongtaek Welfare Town - sponsorship opportunity
• Foster Care Assistance
• Ae Ran Won
• Recent Accomplishments

Pyeongtaek Welfare Town

The Pyeongtaek campus was established in 1981 by Eastern Social Welfare Society. This facility provides services and programs for a diverse group including infants, toddlers, youth, disabled youth and adults from the city of Pyeongtaek and surrounding areas. 

The Dongbang School is an elementary, middle and high school that provides an education for children with special needs. It has 30 classrooms in which 230 mentally or physically disabled children are taught by 60 teachers. Students from the school are featured in the sponsorship program.

Along with the school, there are four other major support areas with a staff of 150 who serve the more than 370 clients. Jacob's Home cares for abandoned infants and toddlers up to age 4. Esther's Home is a shelter for women. A Vocational Rehabilitation Center provides job training and a workplace for adults with special needs. Businesses include a bakery, paper-cut factory and a shopping bag assembly center. Local businesses contract for specific work. The Child Rehabilitation Center is a residential facility for children and young people with special needs.

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Foster Care Assistance

Foster Care Assistance addresses the daily needs of children in the care (e.g. foster care, babies home) of CHSFS' two Korean partner agencies - Eastern Social Welfare Society and Social Welfare Society. The assistance helps to ensure that  children receive quality care through these agencies until they are placed in their adoptive families.

There are currently more than 330 children being cared for in foster families at Eastern Social Welfare Soceity and more than 450 children at Social Welfare Society. The average foster family cares for a child for 7 - 9 months. Since the implementation of new adoption laws in Korea in 2007, the amount of time children are spending in foster care has increased dramatically. Accordingly, foster families need more supplies (e.g. food, formula, disposable diapers) to provide a consistent quality of care. Because children are in care longer, agency clinics are reaching capacity; some facilities and equipment are wearing out. In other cases, there is not an adequate number of machines or testing equipment to meet the need and provide reliable results.  

Ae Ran Won

Located in Seoul, this is a home for young, single mothers who are doing their best to raise their children but sometimes require additional support. Ae Ran Won provides a stable residence, education, vocational training and counseling. When these services are not available, there is a high risk of running away from home, unwanted pregnancies, sexual trafficking or drug abuse. The ultimate goal is to equip these young women to be self-supporting and live on their own.

The rate of unexpected pregnancies in Korea is increasing. At the same time, more mothers are choosing to raise their child(ren) rather than relinquish them for adoption. Ae Ran Won provides group homes for these single mothers as well as food, clothing, medical care and education.

Ae Ran Won is a nonprofit organization with a staff including social workers, a nurse, a cook and specialist instructors.

CHSFS Receives Plaque of Appreciation

Recent Accomplishments

Take a look at what support from donors like you has accomplished in Korea:

• More than 900 children were supported in foster care through Eastern Social Welfare Society and Social Welfare Society in fiscal year 2009. Children are living more comfortably because donations are helping to provide blankets, clothing, medicine and other needed supplies.
   
• Pyeongtaek Welfare Center has purchased two new washing machines and two refrigerators for the orphanage and a fermenter for the bakery operation.
   
• Students at the Dongbang School at Pyeongtaek Welfare Center are now using new chairs, desks and play therapy and occupational therapy equipment to support their special needs.
   
• Women who reside at the Korean agencies’ birthmother homes are benefiting from the donation of occupational therapy materials and hygiene products. 

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Make a financial contribution today -- you will make a difference to vulnerable children in Korea.
 

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