Home repair volunteer club visits homes to help put up new wall papers, flooring and replacing lights
Students donate to purchase goods for volunteering and receive support from Hope Bridge
“It is more fulfilling as the objective of volunteering is more concrete and clearer”
[November 26, 2018]
The YU student club, ‘Youngjihoe’ was awarded in the group sector of the ‘1st Korean Residential Welfare Culture Awards’.
The ‘Korean Residential Welfare Culture Awards’ selected and awarded organizations and institutes that work on making a residential welfare community and citizens who practiced residential welfare cultures at the National Assembly Library’s main auditorium on November 2. This event was hosted by the Residential Welfare Culture Movement Center and sponsored by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and the National Assembly Traffic Committee.
Most of the winners this year were part of volunteer centers, organizations, companies and institutes, and only two school clubs including YU were selected.
<Youngjihoe volunteer work>
Youngjihoe is a home repair volunteer club and is made up of 80 students. They visit homes with poor residential environments in Dong-gu, Suseong-gu and Gyeongsan in Daegu to offer their volunteer services in placing wall paper and replacing floors and lights. Youngjihoe, with the support of the legal disaster relief organization ‘Hope Bridge’, purchases their own goods for volunteer activities with money from the pockets of the student volunteers. The residential areas to receive volunteer services are selected with help from local volunteer centers.
Youngjihoe Vice-president Park Sung-joon (23, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, junior) said, “House repair work may be a bit unfamiliar and difficult for students, but members of our club make up teams of about 10 students each and enjoy volunteer activities.” He added, “Thanks to continuously volunteering every month, our skills with wall papering improved significantly.”
Youngjihoe engages in volunteer activities every month, whether during the semester or during vacation. About 100 homes were repaired since 2014. About two volunteer activity projects are held every month on weekends and club managers have higher responsibilities having to participate in volunteer activities mandatorily.
Youngjihoe President Park Jin-seok (23, School of Materials Science and Engineering said, “Unlike other common volunteer clubs, Youngjihoe has a clear and concrete objective for volunteering. It is very fulfilling as we can see for ourselves the fruits of our volunteer work.” He added, “If you want your college life to be more meaningful, we invite you to come to Youngjihoe.”
