“Working house of woman”

During the summer vacation, I planned to visit orphanage in Seoul, however I changed my plan and visited ‘working house of woman’.

‘Working house of woman’ is an organization supported by “YCMA”, offering and training a job for women who want to, are looking for a job. I helped cleaning the empty desks and get organized files. I saw the place where the training was taken and I also saw the counseling place. Lots of women, high school graduate students, university students, mothers, even working women came and seek for new, suitable job for them. Working in there for one day taught me lots of things; I knew there are such more jobs available then what I knew, lots of women came and seek for jobs, and there are lots of jobs available for women.

I’ve undertaken new challenge of working in an organization for a day with people whom I don’t know, and worked collaboratively with others. There were 2 more volunteers who visited the “Working house of woman”; they were two females, much older than me. We first toured the group and introduced to the organization. Then we sorted out the letters (from who want to visit the organization to get some advice, from the organization which wants new workers to be introduced to them, etc) into different departments. There are several departments of HR, training, marketing, etc. Then we had lunch with the people who came for training and the trainers. After lunch, we cleaned the seminar hall for the training which will be held in there in afternoon. Also we set the hall, putting the papers, documents in place, placed some drinks and snacks, etc. One of us made the print hand-out, other two placed them in each seat. It was really worthy experience to be there with other volunteers, not only for the volunteering but also the knowledge we gain from the organization was really precious.