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Anna¡¯s House: Non-Profit Organization
The center called Anna¡¯s House started in 1998. Here we are welcoming homeless, elderly people, jobless people and children from the street. The center also hosts an association for dyslexic people with the purpose of initiating a campaign to bring proper knowledge to Korea about the condition.
We would like to explain in a simple way the kind of work we are doing with marginalized at the center ¡°Anna¡¯s House¡± where we have three main activities.
Center for homeless adults
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Soup kitchen: we serve about 400 meals a day (last year we distributed 83,880 evening meals).
Services: Medical care (general clinic - 1136 patients; dentist - 62 patients; psychiatric help - 888 patients; oriental medicine - 567 patients), distribution of clothes, barber, washing clothes, shower facility. We also offer counseling: psychological, employment and legal.
We take a holistic approach to the person: while we are helping with basic needs (food, health, clothing, etc.) through the counseling and educational programme we try to give the person the opportunity to overcome his or her disability and build a new life.
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Center for youth on the streets
working with street people we discovered that among them were some teenagers and other young people. We decided to help these youngsters, so we started a program called E.V.E.( Ego-esteem, Vision, Empowering) that we realize in three different steps:
+Welcoming attitude: creating friendships
+Growing as a human being: providing an educational program every day with the social workers and the volunteers
+Taking responsibility for yourself: helping the boys to find employment, earn money and build their own life.
Our program has is carried out in three different houses: Benedict's House, Anna¡¯s House Group Home and Eugenio's House and is collaborating as a network with other shelters:
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- Benedict's House is a shelter where runaway teenagers can find emergency assistance. They can stay in the shelter for six months. In that time, with the help of professional people, they receive counseling and education. In dialogue with the client and his family, when it is possible, we try to incorporate him once again into his own family.
- If, for some reason, it is not possible to return him to his own home and he wants to continue to go to school, we offer him the possibility to stay in Anna¡¯s House Group Home. Here, while he continues to study, we offer him a family context where he can grow up as a healthy person, integrated into society.
- The third level of our program is done in Eugenio¡¯s House. Here those who can't follow the normal curriculum of studies have the opportunity to start to work, under the supervision of specialized persons, and enter into society in a healthy way. All those who complete this program and start their own life can enter our mentoring program where an adult follows up these boys and offers them the opportunity to have a reference point in their new life.
We started this programe in 1998 and we have had more than 160 teenagers and young people come through this program
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Korea Dyslexia Association (KDA)
This is a committee affiliated with the British Dyslexia Association. The aim of this association is to enable teachers, parents and students to know and understand the problem of dyslexia in Korea. Even though in Korea, as in other countries, five percent of the student population is affected by this condition, the problem is largely unknown to the majority of people and results in a lot of prejudice toward and neglect of the young people who suffer from it.
In all these activities there are more than 400 volunteers involved.
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