6 Agendas and Main Projects
Preparation for Peaceful
Reunification
As
our desires for the unification of North and South have been shrinking,
imagining Korean society after the unification is keenly needed. Seoul YWCA
will provide with diverse unification education for children and youths to make
them understand North Korean society and to raise their peace awareness in
everyday life as they lack understanding of unification of our nation. At the
same time, we will campaign for fundraising to expand powered milk support to
children in North Korea.
Anti-Nuclear Movements
Republic
of Korea is fifth-ranked among world’s nuclear power countries and the density
of nuclear power plant is highest in the world. We are living with a hazard of
nuclear accident. People are afraid of radioactivity after Fukushima’s nuclear
crisis. In this circumstance, Seoul YWCA will offer education on riskiness of
nuclear energy and necessity of anti-nuclear movement and campaign for safe
food from radioactivity. We will make a group for anti-nuclear movements and
foster them as a anti-nuclear activists. Energy saving movements will be also
implementing in cooperation with churches, schools, and other communities. Moreover,
we will try to change nuclear-dependent policy into renewable energy oriented.
Expanding Alternative Education
and Youth Programs
To
make youths recover their independence and find genuine happiness by
themselves, Seoul YWCA will expand alternative education and youth programs. Alternative
school called ‘Tong’ will be another chance to expelled students. Kidari School,
fostering Y-like leaders, will be expanded to support self-governing activity
of youths. Youths Issue Forum will enhance publicity on various issues related
to youths and suggest policy for them. Happy Youths and Happy Parent campaign
will also conducted all year around.
Promoting Gender-Responsive
Awareness
To
seek gender-based discrimination in our society and realize gender equality,
education for promoting gender-responsive awareness will be providing. We will
try to enlarge women’s opportunities to take part in policy making. Media
monitoring from the viewpoint of gender-responsiveness and campaign for work
family balance will be carried out all year round.
Prevention of Violence against
Women
To
recover victims of domestic violence and support their independent life, shelter
and various healing programs will be offered. We will also try to build
stronger community safety net to protect women and girls from all kinds of
violence.
Improvement of Human Rights of
Care Service Provider
Seoul
YWCA will try to change our common awareness on care service provider and the
worth of their work, which takes the largest part of women’s unofficial labor.
In cooperation with other organization, we will try to revise the Labor
Standard Act and the Employment Security Act.
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