‘Mother’s Love’ for Climate Change Refugees

Intl. WeLoveU Foundation -국제 위러브유 운동본부
[led by Chairwoman Zahng gil jah]

I am sure that if the countries all over the world join forces with one another, we will able to solve the current global environmental crisis. Hand in Hand, Heart to Heart, be united in "Mother's Love".

By Kirsty Taylor in Seoul/The Korea Herald | Asia News Network
 – Thu, Apr 26, 2012

More than 12,000 people are expected to walk through "Seoul on May 13" to raise awareness of climate change refugees.

-"What is truly needed in our society
 is a warm heart,
that is, LOVE"-

The annual walkathon organized by the  International We Love U Foundation will start at Olympic Park in Songpa-dong at 10 a.m. Ambassadors and organizations including   Daejayon  student environmental group is also set to participate in the walk that President Lee Myung-bak and other celebrities have joined in the past. The Korea-based International We Love U Foundation  operates with the lofty goal of sharing the mother’s love of founder   Zahng Gil-jah (장길자 회장) with all mankind.
Founded in 1995, the organization now has 70,000 members with 43 branches in Korea and 30 international branches across seven continents. 

Its current "Clean WORLD movement" aims at environmental and humanitarian goals with WORLD standing for Water, Oxygen, Region, Life, and Descendants.

“The meaning of ‘Clean World’ is to think about how to make everyone feel happy. If everything is clean all people will think it is beautiful and feel happy,” explained general manager Lee Sung-an.

“First, our hearts should be clean and then the environment should be clean, sharing love with our neighbors should also be clean.”
Lee said that the international programs including providing water pumps to Asian and African nations, planting trees to clean the air, donating blood and providing medical care were changing people’s lives and mindsets.

“We have done activities all over the world, so many people have changed their thinking to become clean. In America, originally the people were a little individualistic but after this movement they can feel love with their families.“In ASEAN, it was a little lazy, but after this movement … many governments and official offices are participating in this movement now.

“In Europe, before only the government took part in environmental movements, but after   "Clean  WORLD movement"  , citizens were taking part too.”

The organization also runs many projects in Korea including visiting senior citizens living alone and assisting multicultural families.
“The purpose of this foundation is to give mother’s love and make the world become one.

“Times are changing so our activities are also changing to reflect this. 
Before we were helping with food or expenses but now we have many medical and environmental branches,” Lee said.

“Now, sadly, child crime and violence is increasing.
To change this, we provide education for children. Kids also take part in the movement to help them to become more kind.

“All the people that participate in the movement feel happy and they become clean. They are changed by the movement.”

Last year’s walk promoted the foundation’s water pump projects in Africa and Asia, but Lee explained that environmental catastrophes had prompted them to help climate refugees.

“The U.N. is helping (political) refugees but no one helped the climate refugees so they are in need of our support. It is possible that in future all nations can have climate refugees so this is a very important subject.”

The ambassadors of Gabon and Ghana have confirmed they will join the event, and organizers are expecting the attendance of some government ministers.

-Below : People take part in last year’s International We Love U Foundation 
walkathon in Seoul. (International We Love U Foundation)-

Those wishing to take part in the Walkathon can register for free online at www.weloveu.or.kr.

MUTHA  CLEAN-UP GETS GLOBAL PUSH -Intl. WeLoveU foundation
(국제위러브유 운동 본부)

"Save The Earth Before Too Late"

Today's environment issues are getting worse and worse, that signify the earth is suffering. After all , which causes lots of natural disasters. Then, How should we cope with all the natural disasters threatening our lives? The Intl. WeLoveU Foundation-국제 위러브유 운동본부 ( Chairwoman : Zahng Gil-jah -회장 장길자)  is trying to raise public awareness of these environmental problems and solve them actively in many ways. The mature civic awareness is needed for the earth to keep  on  breathing.    

 Express news service 

On Sunday morning, an army in white T-shirts and yellow gloves assembled at the Mutha river to carry out the 2012 Clean World Movement.

From the Kalyani Nagar bridge, one could see the group hard at work.

Organised by the Korea-based  WeLoveU Foundation (IWF),  river cleaning activity was carried out simultaneously across the world. Right from Mutha in Pune to El Paso in USA, Bellecour Square in Lyon, France, Magat Salamat in Phillippines and Hara River in Darkhan — the initiative was a synchronous step towards a cleaner environment.

The event was also part of an agreement signed at the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit. In mid-March this year, Zahng Gil-jah (회장 장길자) chairperson of the  Intl. WeLoveU Foundation and Ali-Ben Bongo Ondimba, president, Gabon, agreed to cooperate with each other to cope with environmental problems.

In Pune, 400 people from all walks of life went about town collecting garbage. Colin Fernandes, a 21-year-old student who has been volunteering with the organisation for a year now, felt this was a great way to create "awareness". “It’s like a world movement.  WeLoveU Foundation,  expands worldwide starting from the Representative of Korea. The clean up activities will be organised concurrently to send a stronger message.”

From 10 am to noon, spreading in various time zones, garbage was collected and the issue discussed. Several black dustbin bags stuffed with cigarette butts, plastic bottles and paper waste sat around.

On the side, volunteers emptied the bags to form a big mass of garbage that Pune had effortlessly discarded into Mutha.

Raghav Shelke, a volunteer said, “One is surprised by the kind of garbage dumped here. There are toothpaste caps, pen refills, used cans, 

a pair of jeans, a torn leather shoe and several other things here.”

The black bin bags stuffed with non-degradable waste signified how much the citizens take the river for granted.