Korean charity as impressive as Taekwondo

The annual forum on Korea Overseas Volunteer (KOV) Program was held recently at Galle Face Hotel, Colombo with the participation of Korea International Co-operation Agency (KOICA) staff members, Heads of volunteer recipient organizations such as Colleges of Technology, National Schools, Universities, Departments, Bureaus and Councils; including the External Resources Department of the Ministry of Finance and Planning.

The purpose of this forum was to seek the suggestions and comments from the host organizations for KOVs on their job performances and effectiveness of their services in order to enhance the quality of the program and to enable them to provide better service to the host organizations. The KOICA's KOVs Program was initiated in 1990, aimed at sharing Korean volunteers' expertise, knowledge and experience with their Sri Lanka counterparts.

Since commencement of KOVs program to Sri Lanka, a total of 55 KOVs have served in the fields of IT, Agriculture, Vocational training, Korean language training, physical education, architecture, automobile and Taekwondo training and so on.

KOICA will continue its efforts to work together toward sustainable development of Sri Lanka by conducting KOVs programs and other grants as well as technical cooperation programs. Here, the annual forum's participants of the Korea Overseas Volunteer Program