Ammon News - KOICA Jordan Office has held the "2022 Partners Workshop - World Friends Korea (WFK) Volunteer Program" to commemorate the resumption of the program and strengthen the partnership between KOICA and its partners in the Kingdom.

The workshop included several sessions covering a wide range of topics, such as reviewing program updates, the volunteer enlistment process, and KOICA's commitment to partner satisfaction. Another session focused on KOICA's anti-corruption compliances and internal and global efforts to combat corruption, according to a KOICA statement released Monday.

During the workshop, attended by the directors of host organizations and representatives from concerned ministries, Country Director of KOICA Jordan Office, Seo Dongsung, expressed his gratitude to KOICA’s partners for their cooperation and contribution to the program’s success for the past 16 years and its resumption in the second half of 2022. He also praised the new volunteers who came to Jordan to share their knowledge and experience despite the prevailing circumstances.

The workshop concluded with a feedback session for KOICA’s partners who voiced their questions, concerns and opinions regarding WFK Volunteer Program. KOICA responded to each question and pledged its commitment to assist Jordan and reassured to continue the partners’ positive experience with KOICA’s volunteers.

KOICA sought this workshop as an excellent opportunity to meet with the directors of host organizations and representatives of the concerned ministries; as the WFK program has finally resumed after the outbreak of COVID-19 and the subsequent evacuation of KOICA volunteers in April 2020.

Three new volunteers were dispatched to Jordan in July 2022, after two and half years, in the fields of youth development and music education to the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Social Development and Ministry of Culture respectively. The number of volunteers is expected to grow in the next coming months, the statement added.