2011년 8월 4일 목요일

G 12 Project's Expanding to China

I spent 10 days in Kunming, China, Chinese main gate to east and south Asian countries as well as to the highlands areas in the north including Tibet, visiting local children living in the highlands. The children living far away from the city are also experiencing extreme poverty under the unsanitary environment. Until all the children on earth become a beneficiary of equal education regardless of where they live and who they are, our G12 Project based in Vancouver, Canada will not stop finding, connecting, and supporting them with a firm belief that all of us are one family.


                                  Stone Forest in Kunming

                                         
                                          Guhyang Cave in Kunming                                      

                                 
                                  The Children in Dream Community                                  
 

                                          Boys are same where ever we go
                                 
                                  Single Mother and Son in poverty


                                  The Children in Dream Community at a local retaurant

                                          Chapel Time at a Chinese government registered
                                          Samja church- No freedom of religion!
                                          Grandma and granddaughter
                                  Two boys in the highlands area, 15 hours from
                                  Kunming-no water, no wash
                                 
                                  This is the tough road we took on the way to
                                  meet the children
                                 
                                  How dare they can live on the hill, are they
                                  cliff-hangers?
                                  Kumsa Liver and the highlands
                                 
                                  Potatoes farm in the highlands-white and
                                  purple flowers
                                 
                                  These are the kids we are looking for-it is
                                  extremely rare to see children's smile in public, why?
                                 
                                  What are you looking at, man?
                                 
                                  Who can help them wash their hands and faces?
                                 
                                  A beautiful potato flower
                                 
                                 A church and Tobacco farm- many Christians
                                 in rural areas make ends meet by farming tobacco.
                                 Who can stone them?

2011년 8월 3일 수요일

G12 Project's 2nd Scholars in Guatemala


                                  15. Edwin Ottoneil Alcor Patzan: 16 years old

                                 
                                  16. Edwin Yolando Sequen: 13 years old
                                 

                                  17. Maria Luz Canel Chon: 12 years old
                               
                                  18. Ingrid Maribel Miza: 14 years old

2011년 6월 25일 토요일

G 12 Project's 1st Scholars in Guatemala

                      1. Brenda Mariela Culajay Camey: 14 years old
           2. Douglas Alfredo Joi Patzan: 17 years old
                      3. Evett Daniela Leonardo Hernandez: 13 years old
                      4. Fabio Modesto Simon Jimenez: 12 years old
                    5. Glendy Aleida Patzan Chiroy: 13 years old
                    6. Jessica Roxana Ticun: 13 years old  
                    7. Karla Yesenia Tomas Reyes: 15 years old
                    8. Lesly Elsy Patzan Chiroy 17 years old
9.                    9. Lesly Melisa Ticun: 15 years old
                    10. Moises Oliberto Chicop: 15 years old
                    11. Rosa Viviana Choxin Yucute: 16 years old
12.                    12. Selena Solis Raxon: 15 years old 
                    13. Vicente Enrique Joj Patzan: 19 years old
                    14. Wendy Araceli Patzan Chiroy: 11 years old
*** Our journey to recruit G 12 Project's scholars continues when the 100th scholar comes in.

2011년 5월 16일 월요일

How can I forget the smiles of these children?



Education Beyond Borders

Guatemalan children, especially Mayan children in rural and highlands areas, are living under extremely poor situation; girls are often pressured to quit their school at their age 11or 12 because they should help out their families, cooking, cleaning and farming. They have been discriminated from the masculine-dominated society (machismo) for a long time. With a priority on girls’ education in that girls later become mothers and mothers become primary and foundational educators for their children so it is desperate to empower girls through education, the G 12 Edu Project is founded in Vancouver, Canada, as a non-profit foundation which plays a significant role of bridging Guatemalan (and other developing countries’) children with Korean communities in Canada and South Korea in light of becoming global family.