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CHARITY: Jeon Jin Sang Hospice/Palliative Center |
Amount: 5,000,000W |
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Description: Provides hospice and palliative care for terminally ill patients unable to pay for the care themselves.
Usage: The purchase of a steam sterilizer which is used on all medical equipment and surgical instruments. |
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CHARITY: New Light Community |
Amount: 5,000,000W |
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Description: To provide care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Usage: For the care, medical and daily, and rehabilitation of people living with HIV/AIDS |
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CHARITY: Myongdo Sheltered Workshop |
Amount: 5,000,000W |
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Description: This workshop acknowledges the rights and dignity of those with disabilities by providing rehabilitation and education programs to develop their abilities and enable them to live a meaningful life within their local community.
Usage: Subsidy of a weekend program of immersion training and rehabilitation through field study which would allow social activity, improvement of peer interaction skills, and varied social situations. |
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CHARITY: Archdiocesan Pastoral Center for Filipino Migrant Workers |
Amount: 5,000,000W |
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Description: A full served center which caters to the needs of migrant workers. This center provides food, shelter, medical assistance and government (Korean paperwork, Visa, job search) assistance. Many local organizations look to the APCFMW for guidance and training with their needs.
Usage: To assistance in the implementation of a strength and personal vision training program. |
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CHARITY: Emmaus Home Bound Center |
Amount: 5,000,000W |
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Description: Located in Gwangju, this center strives to enhance the dignity and quality of life of intellectually disabled people.
Usage: Funds will be used to facilitate a program which enables intellectually disabled mothers by providing them support and education to integrate with their community, enjoy family time, child rearing classes, and enhancing their quality of life. |
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CHARITY: Arum Village |
Amount: 5,000,000W |
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Description: Home for mentally and physically disabled children
Usage: Arum Village built a new outdoor playground with special safety and structural adjustments made to serve those with physical handicaps. |
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CHARITY: Boystown |
Amount: 5,000,000W |
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Description: Self-sufficient organization that houses children from birth through 12th grade. They are dedicated to taking care of all the children who come through the door and especially those with special needs and challenges.
Usage: Donation will be used to refurbish one of the older rooms into a new playroom for the children which will be called Anna's Room. (In honor of Anna Venn, an AWC member and Boystown volunteer, who passed away suddenly last year.) |
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CHARITY: Emmaus Activity Center |
Amount: 4,400,000W |
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Description: Offers services to 30 severely intellectually disabled adults. In addition, there is a local institution that cares for severely disabled children, as well as the local disabled children attending pre-school.
Usage: Donation will be used to build a new room for gentle stimulation of the primary senses through movement in a calm and relaxing atmosphere. This helps reduce stress and tension for both disabled adults and children. |
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CHARITY: Friends Without Borders Counseling Office |
Amount: 5,000,000W |
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Description: Counseling services for foreign laborers and women married to Koreans who need assistance for a variety of issues including domestic abuse, medical challenges, and psychological problems.
Usage: Donated funds helped purchase supplies in the counseling office that are necessary to process each laborer's or woman's cause and ensure they receive the help they need. |
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CHARITY: Home of Love |
Amount: 2,500,000W |
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Description: Teaches handicapped men to lead as independent as possible a life, to be self-sufficient and to be able to acquire a license to work.
Usage: Chop kits purchased for each man participating in the program |
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CHARITY: House of John |
Amount: 5,000,000W |
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Description: Institute which provides a home and education to orphans and neglected children.
Usage: The House of John serves a large number of children and was badly in need of a new facility. AWC funds contributed to the renovation of a new home. |
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CHARITY: Lighthouse Foundation |
Amount: 5,035,000W |
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Description: Provides emergency assistance and aid for North Korean children suffering from severe malnutrition. The Foundation has two soy milk and bread factories and is currently feeding approximately 20,000 children on a daily basis.
Usage: Funds will be used to purchase clothing, shoes, socks, blankets and soybean. |
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CHARITY: Myung Do Child Care Center |
Amount: 4,000,000W |
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Description: Helps enable all persons with disabilities, especially those with learning disabilities, to lead as normal a life as possible within their local community. Currently assists nearly 100 children.
Usage: Donated funds will go toward the cost of installing a city gas line in the building (Currently, the organization uses bottled gas, which is very costly.) |
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CHARITY: Nanoom House Child Care Facility |
Amount: 5,000,000W |
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Description: Daycare for children in single-parent homes or children being raised by elderly relatives.
Usage: AWC funds helped to satisfy the nutritional needs of the children by ensuring that rice and other food staples were readily available year round. |
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CHARITY: New Light Community Shelter |
Amount: 5,000,000W |
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Description: A home for women living with HIV/AIDS.
Usage: The shelter used the designated funds to renovate their basement into an area where the residents could be taught valuable trade and work skills. |
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CHARITY: Seton Rehabilitation Center |
Amount: 5,000,000W |
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Description: Located in Gwangju, the center provides daycare and therapy for students with physical disabilities and focuses on work training programs, including a bakery, ceramics studio and metal parts assembly workshop.
Usage: Donated funds will go providing new machinery for the bakery. |
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For more information about our funding guidelines, please contact our Welfare Chair, Jennifer Lane, at 
