Ewha launches volunteer corps

Students, doctors and professors at Ewha Womans University launched a volunteer corps Monday to provide medical and educational services in Korea and Cambodia.

A total of 164 volunteers will work in farming and fishing communities and industrial districts during the summer, the school said.

The group consists of 118 educational volunteers to be dispatched to 21 regions at home, 21 educational workers to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and a 25-strong medical team to Kampong Speu Province, Cambodia.

“It will be an opportunity to practice our love for neighbors, and acknowledge different dreams and challenges through experiencing foreign cultures,” the university’s president Kim Sun-uk said in a statement.

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