WINGS
The WINGS program is dedicated to helping women and youth in Korea. By establishing WINGS, Me & Korea secures funds and resources to help women and children in a variety of ways throughout the year.
Make a direct impact. 100% of WINGS donations are provided to the organizations we serve.
explore our various initiatives
The Desk Campaign
Join our campaign to provide in-home desk sets to children and families in need.
Helping Halmonies
In partnerships with the Sunlit Sisters Center, we provide food baskets to women who worked in camptowns.
Wings Grant Fund
Support medical, education, and home improvement grant requests from children and families in need.
WINGS+
With the WINGS+ program, volunteers teach English to children living in group homes, with weekly lessons that include one-on-one tutoring.
Angels' Haven Birthday Program
Help us celebrate the birthday of every child, teen, and young adult in a Seoul-based children’s home.
Annual Christmas Gift Drive
Each holiday season, WINGS provides a Christmas gift of their choosing to each youth at children’s homes or in other single parent households.
The Desk Campaign
Beginning in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, WINGS began using a portion of donations to provide desks and chairs to children in need. These desks had an immediate positive impact on families.
From those donations, the “Desk Campaign” was born, with the goal of supplying more desks and chair sets to low-income families. Initially, we aim to provide 10 desks and chairs per year, focusing on children ages 10-15, but we hope to grow the program in the years to come.
WINGS Grant Fund
This WINGS grant fund program aims to support:
Children and families in need. Grants requests for medical needs, education, and home improvement are submitted directly to WINGS, with a recommendation from a local government or NGO. Each request is evaluated by a committee of Korean adoptees.
Single Mothers Seonmul: When it comes to support, women who are separated from their children are often overlooked, and offered little support from the government or other charitable organizations after leaving a single mother shelter or group home. Through the Seonmul program, WINGS is committed to supporting these women upon moving out on their own with a seonmul (gift) of $500 to $1,000.
Angels’ Haven Birthdays Program
Since 2017, WINGS has celebrated the birthday of every child, teen, and young adult living at Angels’ Haven (a children’s home). Each year, 60 to 70 children from the ages of one to 21 receive their own special cake and gift on their birthday.
Helping Halmonies
This program partners with the Sunlit Sister’s Center, an organization that supports Korean women who worked in the camptowns surrounding U.S. army bases during and after the Korean War.
Every year, WINGS provides Christmas food baskets and meals to these elderly grandmothers (halmonies) and those in Paju, most of whom live alone, to celebrate Christmas and Lunar New Year. Additional assistance for basic needs like shelter and home improvement are also provided. The Helping Halmonies program was established in honor of mixed-race (hapa) Korean adoptees.
Annual Christmas Gift Drive
During the holiday season, WINGS raises funds to provide a Christmas gift of their choosing to each youth at children’s homes and other single parent households. On Christmas, the wrapped gifts are delivered to these facilities by WINGS volunteers.
The Christmas Campaign also provides scholarships, graduation gifts, and housing support for students who are graduating or leaving the children’s home, as well as annual group dinners (at a restaurant or catered) for all children, single parents, and other individuals who are part of WINGS programs.
WINGS+: English lessons for youth
Volunteers from WINGS teach English to children in group homes each week, with each child receiving one-on-one tutoring from a WINGS instructor. This is invaluable, both to supplement the children’s English classes at school, as well as to practice conversational English with native speakers.
Interested in volunteering? Email us at info@meandkorea.org.