<Opening Parent Class for Multi-cultural Families in September: “Release your depressed heart”>

On every Saturday, 8-12 parents of multicultural families came to Saturday school with their children, and they are watching their children study, talking with each other in their mother tongues.

At the beginning of our ministry, we had so much concentrated on the programs for the children like piano lesson, art class and Korean/English lesson and monthly party that we could not take sufficient care of the problems of mothers. But three years ago we started to open group art therapy class for mothers in the morning of Saturday during summer and winter vacation to heal their wounded heart.

Then we came to realize that we should not delay any longer parent education as children are having more school problems as they grow up. Without the change of parents, how can we solve the problems of children?

Parent class is open on a bi-weekly basis. As Numusuh has not been supported by any government or city or local government but by the donation of voluntary supporters, we have always tried to make our programs as sustainable as possible. Since the first week of September, Jeon Jin Lee started to meet mothers for two hours and to have talks about children’s school life and learning habits and to develop a good program together.

We have tried to overcome the bias about our program that it must use very cheap materials in class, because it is free for multi-cultural families. So we have used the best materials and the most elegant program for the mother’s group activities since we opened our piano class eight years ago.

We received the response from the first class on the first day.

Asked about the class after the multi-cultural parent class, one Vietnamese mother answered with tears in her eyes, “Teacher, we know that you are always trying to offer the best class to us. Thank you so much!”