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[Streetdogger]

HOPE (Helping Others Prosper through English) is a new volunteer project based in Seoul and was established by Canadian teachers who are looking to make a positive impact on the communities where they live. We are a non-profit intercultural learning organization that is led and managed by foreign English teachers. Our objective is to provide a free, safe and accessible place for underprivileged children to develop their English skills and equip them for a brighter future in further education.

We are looking for English teachers to please volunteer an hour of their time a week to join our team. Locations are all across Seoul, within minutes from your closest subway terminal.

Let's do what we can to help out in our communities.

Please feel free to browse our NEW website:

http://www.alwayshope.or.kr/

OR

contact Maria, our Foreigner Director of Recruiting

[email protected]

[Bibbitybop]

Sounds like a good idea. Are you aware that people on an E-series visa legally need to register with immigration to volunteer? Many also get verbal approval through the immigration hotline at 1345.

Teaching anywhere, even for free, is prohibited for E-series visa holders without immigration's approval. Do people get busted? Rarely. But all it takes is one phone call to immigration from an upset Korean (disgruntled parent or pissed off neighboring hogwan owner).

Your organization and any prospective volunteers should check into getting approval before volunteering.

What other country makes it illegal to volunteer time? That's why Korea is Sparkling.

[Streetdogger]

Thanks Bibbitybop, you do raise a valid point.

Our organization has been fully recognized by the Seoul Volunteer Center (SVC), which has made it relatively easy for volunteers holding an E visa to work. One stipulation is that you MUST have your criminal check.


The classes are usually one hour long. The maximum amount of students is 12 but we have classes as small as 2. Each volunteer teacher is assigned a Korean volunteer coordinator. They help set everything up, make sure the class is ready, take the teacher down on the first day so they know how to get there by subway and stay during their first lesson to make sure everything goes smoothly. They also act as a hub of communication between the volunteer, the partner host center and with the directors of HOPE. As well, if any translation is required, that's what they're there for.

HOPE