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Email Address
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Phone number
+82 2-535-3217
Nest is a corporation that wants to make the world smile. Nest was established on October 28, 2006 and has carried out various projects. This includes supporting overseas adoptees with visits to the homeland, resettlement to Korea, and assisting with the development of underprivileged countries. Nest helps everyone beyond religious beliefs and ideology. Currently, Nest focuses on improving and developing services to better their quality of life by preparing and planning better ways to support overseas adoptees.
Airport Pickup Service
Nest provides an airport pick-up services for only overseas adoptees visiting Korea for the first time. If you are interested, please fill out of the following form.
Homestay
Many visit Korea for the holiday but your experience as an overseas adoptees may be a bit different from them. Some adoptees would like to learn more about Korean culture. Consider, instead of staying at a more conventional accommodation, try a home stay! Nest offers overseas adoptees with an opportunity for a home stay which will provide you with more personal hands-on experience of Korea. Adoptees will be able to stay for one to five days during their home stay. Please apply at least two months in advance for this service.
Let’s Go to Korea
This program will assist overseas adoptees in traveling back to Korea to experience the beautiful atmosphere and warmth the motherland has to offer.
Overseas adoptees will visit a variety of places in Korea including: Incheon Ceramic Village, Jeonju hanok village, Jirisan Nogodan Mountain, Jeju Island, and the Boseong green tea field. Participants will also enjoy other programs such as a temple stay, rural countryside visits, riding the rail bike, visiting the bamboo park, hiking, and much more. You will also get to create memories alongside other fellow adoptees while building an emotional connection.
Participation is for overseas adoptees that are over 18 years of age. It is a first come first serve application process with a limit of no more than 10 applicants.
The “Let’s Go, Korea” program is usually held every year. It is sponsored by the Overseas Korean Agency and the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
Interpretation and Translation Services
Nest provides translation services to overseas adoptees visiting Korea. We connect Korean volunteers with overseas adoptees in order to ensure smooth communication. These services can be used to communicate with biological family members, agency visit, etc. In addition, Nest provides translators for letter exchanges with their biological family members when adoptees are abroad. These letters can be translated into Korean, English, and French.
Korean Language Class
Studying Korean language helps to provide overseas adoptees with a better understanding of their Korean culture and heritage. One of the biggest challenges of communicating with biological family members, living or visiting Korea is the language barrier. Nest offers a one-on-one Korean Language Class for those who want to learn Korean but are unable to attend regular educational institutions due to economical reasons or time constraints.
The classes are individualized working one-on-one with a teacher who will assist you with creating a curriculum that fits your needs. Through the Nest Language program overseas adoptees can learn Korean at their own pace and in the comfort of their own home. Lessons are conducted only online through Zoom, Skype, Kakao, or FaceTime.
2020 – Philippines
Nitang Philippines, ‘A Glass of Milk Sharing Project.’
Nitang is an area outside of Quezon City, children and adolescent are often times exposed to diseases because of polluted rivers. There is also a high death rate due to malnutrition. Nest has launched a nutrition improvement project to help strengthen the immune system of children and adolescents through conjunctiva with the Korean Martyrs’ Association who are dispatched to the Nitang area.
2019 – Senegal
Women’s Competency Enhancement Project, Daru Kudos, Senegal.
Senegal’s Daru Kudos region where education attainment for women is low. This does not allow social advancement and is socially oppressive against women. In addition, as more women were forced to to live on the streets under the system of polygamy, women living in poverty became more of social issue. Nest supports women’s human rights and independence.
2018 – Cambodia
Support for study rooms for children in poverty in Cambodia.
This program supports impoverished children in the Pusat region of Cambodia. There is a social perception that poverty is a “punishment” due to the actions of the parents or other family members. It is difficult to break down the deep-rooted negative perception. In addition, educational infrastructure and facilities for the impoverished were so terribly managed that the high school graduation rate was less than 2%.
2017 – Mynamar
Anna Center Support Education Program for Disabled Children
This is a support program that was created to help intellectually disabled children and adults in Kachin Mynamar. More than 50% of individuals with disabilities worked together to solve social problems. Which may have caused them to be denied admission into schools. This Nest program want to help disabled children and adults to become more independent by offering them education and social adaptation training.
2015-2016 – Indonesia
Medical Service and Scholarship Support
2014 – Marshall Islands
Provided 20 Computers
Jabol Island, located in the Marshall Islands, is where residents and students rely on coconuts for the livelihood. The access to education is difficult for children in addition to food insecurity. Nest believes that the computers given the children will assist them with their education.
2012-2013 – Nepal
Operation Dental Clinic
Nest established a clinic in the Muui Village in Darding, Nepal. This was to provide the local residents with basic medicine and first aid kits. The clinic would be the foundation for disease prevention. The first phase of this project was to complete the building of the clinic within the first half of 2012. The second half of 2022, Nest would bring in dental and malaria treatment equipment to the clinic. The goal to help provide future medical services to serve about 43,000 residents.
2011 – Mongolia
Darkhan Agricultural School-Support
Darkhan City is the second largest city in Mongolia, with a population of about 100,000 people boosting the second largest educational center in the country. After the collapse of the communist regime in 1990, the unemployment rate increased significantly between 7 to 9% in Mongolia. With job creation being the main focus, establishing this school would educate students under the age of 15 on systematic agricultural technology and lead to further developments in the community.
