Service Must Go On

Since I cannot attend Hyeeun school any more, I have decided to write about my other community service experience. I am part of an organization called VCGY (Vision Care Global Youth), which is an organization administered by a group of students. The main purpose of this organization is to help people who are blind and people who are in danger of loosing their sights. Recently, I visited Ansan Immigrant Center, where VCGY members attend monthly to help out. This time 6 VCGY members were there to help out. Our mission there was to facilitate the operation of free eye medical treatments for immigrants by encouraging immigrants to get the treatments, and by helping the registration process. For those of you who have never been to Ansan, it is a place full of immigrants from various places: China, Algeria, Nepal, Pakistan, and so on. These immigrants don’t have the national health insurance, and without a health insurance, a simple treatment at the hospital can cost them a fortune. Therefore, unfortunately, it is difficult for those immigrants to get medical treatments in Korea. So, real ophthalmology doctors ( eye doctors) come to Ansan to give the immigrants free eye medical treatment every month, and we are there to help those doctors do their jobs.