Muan-gun Conducts 'Thank You Yo, Appreciate You Yo Project' with 54 Children

Published 01 Dec.2021 11:14(KST)

A Letter Written with Small Hands Conveys Grateful Feelings

A first-grade student named Lee Mo from Muan Haengbok Elementary School is delivering a letter expressing gratitude to the homeroom teacher. ? Asia Economy

[Muan＝Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Oh Hwanju] “I have so many things to thank you for, teacher. On my first day at school, I was scared, but you treated me kindly, so I started to like school. Also, thank you for teaching us so many things.”

Lee (first name withheld), a first grader at Muan Haengbok Elementary School, wrote a letter expressing gratitude to her homeroom teacher.

The Muan-gun Community Social Security Council in Jeonnam (Public Chairman Kim San, Private Chairman Jeong Gilsu) conducted the Thank You Yo~! Appreciate You Yo~! project from October 22 to last month’s 24th, delivering drawings or letters of gratitude along with flowerpots to those whom participants wanted to thank.

According to the county on the 1st, this project was part of the Muan-gun Community Social Security Council’s Children and Youth Division. They received stories from children and adolescents who had feelings of gratitude but had not expressed them, collecting 54 such stories.

The recipients of gratitude included a variety of people such as family members, friends, teachers, public health center officials, police officers, firefighters, and sanitation workers.

Hong (first name withheld), a fourth grader at Muan Elementary School, wrote a thank-you letter to his father: “Dad, you are my badminton partner, my helper when playing games, my protector when I’m scared, and my safety man when we walk together. When I become a dad, I want to be like you and learn everything from you. I can’t even imagine a world without you.”

County Governor Kim San said, “I was deeply moved by our children expressing their gratitude through letters and drawings to many people they often meet and live with,” adding, “Just as a butterfly’s small flap of wings can change the weather, I hope these warm hearts come together to create a society full of love.”