South Korea Delivered Handmade Masks and Letters for the Indian Students

 Vivek Sharma, New Delhi. Areum Middle School, Sejong city, South Korea delivered handmade masks and letters for the Indian students in sisterhood relationship. The School took the masks sending project initiative during corona pandemic to its sisterhood school Manthan based in Greater Noida, UP, India. The loving and caring gesture was made by school’s faculty members and students.The masks were made by the students, though they were clumsy with their first time learning and stitching. Some parents also participated in this project. The school tried to send all these meaningful and heartfelt masks to India through all possible ways. This was initiated just at the time when India declared complete lockdown. After being blocked for several months, with the help of Korean Cultural Center India, the masks were delivered to the Manthan School in person to the principal.

Along with masks there were letters written by school principal and students. Kim Sung-mi, the principal of Areum Middle School in her letter appreciated her 3 years relation with the school and regretted that due to corona pandemic they could not conduct the scheduled exchange program this year. Though Corona situation was serious in Korea also, but now is calming down, school district is doing both online and offline classes. We hope to continue our school sisterhood relationship and the Manthan School also overcome the difficulties in pandemic situation through our small but heartfelt gifts.

Korean Cultural Centre India has been operating school exchange projects as strategic object for Korean culture promotion since its beginning, and has supported international exchange programs between Indian and Korean schools since 2016. The relations between the Manthan and Areum Middle School is the one of fruits for this program.

Hwang Il-yong, the director of Korean Cultural Centre India said, “I am so glad that I could deliver the message of encouragement and hope in recent another serious wave of Corona situation in Delhi. We are also going to deliver another 1,500 masks to Indian schools from Korea donated by Kim Yang-shik, the director of Indian Art Museum in Seoul.

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