Description:
Early
part of 2004, BPW Korea acquired a special
fund by ministry of gender and BPW Korea
held a leadership camp(1night 2days) for
106 high school girls to meet with their
potential mentors.
Objective:
1) |
To
mentor young girls to help identify
various professions and businesses
as well as job opportunities, |
2) |
To give motives
to participate in the community by
meeting women leaders in business
and profession, |
3) |
To have opportunities
to actually experience various fields
of occupation/profession by role-play. |
Approaches:
• |
106
high school girls were recommended
as “future women leaders”
by high schools through out Korea. |
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(a) |
Description
of the camp, planned program, and
introduction of BPW Korea were sent
out to 150 high schools through out
the nation. |
|
(b) |
Notification
of selected students and questionnaire
to find out their interests was followed.
|
• |
Main
program was focused on “Be a
professional leader” role-play
and actually meeting business &
professional women and spend 2 days
closely with them. |
|
(a) |
All
instructors and mentors were the members
of BPW Korea and they work in the
fields of art, management, IT, medicine,
communication, legal, education, administration,
etc. |
|
(b) |
Guest
speaker was Joan Baron, Chairman of
Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Korea. |
• |
Participants
were grouped by desired occupation/profession
and had group discussions with their
mentors. |
A pledge of
future young BPW was written by camp participants.
Duration
Preparation & develop programs 2004.
2.~ 7 Feed-back, evaluation & preparation
of 2nd camp : 2004. 8~ present
Number
of Women being Help: 106 girls from 150
high schools of 4 provinces actually participated
at the camp. The effect of this project
was much more than expected as it was televised
and reported through TV and newspapers.
Those
girls who were at the camp are now leading
BPW Korea’s mentoring program for
high school students and as of November
2004, over 6,000 high school girls have
contacted local clubs of BPW Korea to join
the program. The number of women being helped
is almost uncountable at this time!
There
is an on-line site at work at this time
for this special mentoring project between
high school girls and BPW Korea.
Results:
• |
Nation
wide promotion of mentoring project
with high school girls - 25 clubs
of BPW Korea are now under on going
mentoring project within their areas
and as of November 2004, over 6,000
high school girls have contacted BPW
local clubs to join the program. |
• |
Active network
between high school girls with professional
women leaders - most are networking
through email and internet. |
• |
BPW Korea organized
and began to raise fund for young
BPW to foster global women leaders. |
Project Team:
Since 2004, the
project team include:
- Young Soon Kim
(President)
- Younhee(uni) Choi (Chairperson, International
Relations)
Young BPW participation:
Involve
young BPW BPW Korea officially inaugurated
young BPW with 25 members at the BPW Korea
national conference in Oct, 2004 –
Dr. Chonchanok Viravan, 1st Vice President
of BPW International was present at the
conference.
Evidence:
'Reports
of 2004 BPW Leadership Camp" booklet
mailed directly to Chonchanok Viravan, PhD.
Chair of Adjudicators
A pledge
of future young BPW
- written by camp participants
As
future young BPW with infinite potential
and confidence, we will always challenge
toward our goal.
As
future young BPW with full of youth, creative
ideas and positive thinking, we will be
global enterprising women.
As
future young BPW with full of passion, courage
and firm faith, we will lead our own lives.
Program
for
" Camp for future women leaders"
Time |
July
17, Sat |
July
18, Sun |
06:30-07:30 |
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Rise & Morning
work out |
07:30-09:00
|
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Breakfast |
09:00-10:30 |
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Recreation
Talks on Health & Wellbeing |
10:30-12:00 |
|
Write thoughts
of Camp experience
& Questionnaire |
12:00-12:30
|
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Check-out |
12:30-13:30 |
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Lunch |
14:00-15:00 |
Registration,
check-in, Organize into work group
Opening Ceremony |
Closing Ceremony
- awards & completion certificate
- a pledge of future young BPW |
15:00-16:00
|
Show(Women in
21st Century, Job prospects for women,
etc.) |
|
16:00-17:00
|
Meet with global
woman:
guest speaker Joan Baron,
Chairman, Canadian Chamber of
Commerce in Korea |
|
17:10-18:00
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"
Be a leader 1” |
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18:00-19:00 |
Dinner |
|
19:10-20:00
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“Be
a leader 2” |
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20:00-21:30 |
Group Discussion
Preparation of role-play
-marketing strategy &
perform project |
|
21:30-23:00 |
Role Play &
Recreation |
|
23:00-24:00 |
Candle light Ceremony
|
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Contact:
Younhee(uni)
Choi (Chairperson, International Relations)
E-mail: choi-uni@kurni.ac.kr
Last update: year 2005 |
