Pusan Women's Association
TEL : 052-852-6647/8  FAX: 052-852-6649
www.busanwomen.or.kr

Pusan Women Workers' Associations and Pusan women's Association was integrated into
Pusan Women's Association in 1995 in order to carry out activities in diverse fields
for better lives of women workers in Pusan.

Her Activists

1) Counseling  

● Saha Counseling Center for domestic violence
● Yeonjae Counseling Center for domestic violence
● Counseling Center for Children  
● Hotline for women house holders

- Counseling (call, interview, and on-line counseling)  
- Study on counseling case (focusing on settlement methods for every case)
- Further Research (counseling through gender perspective, counseling techniques seminar, once every two weeks on Tuesday 10:30 a.m.)
- Research on prevention of domestic violence and spouse troubles and public discussion on how to communicate between spouses
- Lectures on building gender equal relationship between husband and wife for singles
- Workshop for counseling victims of sexual violence and diverse campaigns (how to deal with domestic violence, human rights of women)
- Training for volunteer counselors (free training for counselors, regular training for counselors, and practices for fresh counselors)
- Solidarity building for human rights for women and equal society

2) Building a democratic family

● Husband and Wife : problem solving programs and public discussion
● Parents and Children : how to understand my children, how to communicate my children, how to prepare for the first school day of my children
● Juveniles : science camp, volunteer activities for agricultural areas, juvenile counselor training, education on sex
● Children : science camp, children's camp, children's school, finding treasures in TV
● Seniors : seniors' school, computer class, medicare class
● Single parent : fact finding research on situations of single parent's family, public discussion for policy suggestions, group counseling for single parents, building networks, regular meeting for single moms

3) Human Rights of women
 
- policy suggestions for prevention of sexual violence and domestic violence
- elimination of householder system
- policy suggestions for termination of prostitution
- expansion of gender equality in the area of education, media and culture

4) Women Workers

- Counseling through Equaline
- Education and policy suggestion for equal employment of women
- Policy suggestion for supporting women at work and at home

Her Branches

1) Saha  
- counseling center for domestic violence
- Participation Team for Assembly : realization of self-governance and local autonomy
- Theater company "Hangajok" (Our family) : performed plays about discrimination and social issues at work and domestic violence from the feminist points of view since 1999
- support volunteer activities  

2) Jin  

- Volunteer Center
- 'Sae ssak"(sprout) Children's center
- Volunteer Team for disabled children
- Volunteer Team "Pul Ggot Hyang" for orphanage
- Volunteer Team "Bud Na Mu" for seniors, disabled children and victims of domestic
- Eco-protectors "Nuri Gikimie"
- Volunteer Team for performing Pung Mul (traditional musical instruments)
- Love Neighbor : free hairdressing for foreign workers, free meals, free dishes for seniors living alone
- Love wheeling : driving service for children in welfare centers and orphanages

3) Young Do : supporting cultural social activities in the region  

4) Dong Rae  

- Cultural Center for women
- Counseling Center for women and family
- Education Community
- Love Children
- Singles : monitoring mass media
- Juvenile Volunteer Counselors

5) Sa Sang

- Participation Team for Assembly
- Solidarity Building in the region
- Love Children
- Supporting small groups


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