Yangcheon-gu Out-of-School Youth Support Center Youth Sell Leather Crafts and Donate Proceeds

Proceeds from Sales of Handmade Leather Crafts like Card Wallets and Keyrings Donated to Yangcheon Love Welfare Foundation... Serving as a Stepping Stone for Out-of-School Youth to Become Community Sharing Agents

Leather Craftwork Sales and Experience

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Yangcheon-gu (Mayor Kim Soo-young) School Outside Youth Support Center (hereinafter referred to as ‘Yangcheon-gu Dream’) is holding the Yangcheon Craft Class for out-of-school youth (referring to youth who do not attend school due to reasons such as long-term absence, deferred enrollment, expulsion, withdrawal, etc.) to support various activities.

The Yangcheon Craft Class was selected for the ‘2020 Beautiful Store Gaebong Branch’ themed allocation project and provides leather craft classes for 10 months so that out-of-school youth can grow not only as recipients of help and protection in the local community but also as subjects of sharing.

In addition, Yangcheon-gu Dream (Center Director Jang Hye-young) held an event on October 26th near Happy Department Store where these youths directly sold about 20 leather craft items (card wallets, key rings, tassels, etc.) they made by hand in the Yangcheon Craft Class.

The sales proceeds are scheduled to be donated to the Yangcheon Love Welfare Foundation. The youths’ works are completed with such high quality that they are comparable to products sold on the market, receiving high consumer response. Therefore, another sales event is planned for November 30th.

As a side event, about 10 works completed in a free format through cooperative work by out-of-school youth in the pop art program of Yangcheon-gu Dream’s art club ‘Drawing Youth’ were also exhibited.

Meanwhile, the Yangcheon-gu School Outside Youth Support Center provides programs such as ▲counseling support ▲educational support ▲job experience and employment support ▲independence support for out-of-school youth according to the ‘Act on Support for Out-of-School Youth.’ Out-of-school youth wishing to use the center can apply through ‘Youth Hotline 1388’ or by searching for ‘Dream.’

Jang Hye-young, Director of the School Outside Youth Center, said, “Despite the difficult situation due to COVID-19 this year, I cannot hide my joy that out-of-school youth actively participated in the programs and achieved various results. Next year, various programs for out-of-school youth will also be conducted, so I hope many interested out-of-school youth will participate.”

Drawing Street Exhibition

Also, Kim Soo-young, Mayor of Yangcheon-gu, stated, “Since the opening of the Yangcheon-gu center in 2018, various programs such as psychological counseling, support for preparing for the qualification exam, and job experience have been conducted to prevent out-of-school youth from being marginalized in the local community. In the future, we will do our best to support various programs that can cultivate a sense of achievement for out-of-school youth and help them grow into healthy members of society, including indirect economic education like the Yangcheon Craft Class.”

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