The Export-Import Bank of Korea (www.koreaexim.go.kr, Chairman Kim Yong-hwan, “Korea Eximbank”) held a graduation ceremony for the first class of its ‘Seed of Hope Undergraduate Volunteers’ program at the bank’s Yeouido headquarters on December 23.

The volunteers, who joined the program in May as its inaugural class, were divided into 14 teams with 10 members each to conduct community service for disadvantaged social groups including multicultural families and resettled North Koreans.

In particular, the teams devised more than 90 community service programs on their own, including a program to help migrant women introduce their native countries’ cultures, a street campaign to improve perceptions about multicultural families, and a history and culture tour for resettled North Koreans.

At the graduation ceremony, the grand prize for community service excellence was awarded jointly to team Busan and team Seoul 1, who helped children of low-income families by respectively conducting an economics class and introducing children to diverse professions in the world of work.

The two winning teams will have the opportunity go to Cambodia’s Bot Veng Village, a jungle village with which Korea Eximbank has a sisterhood relationship, to do volunteer work in February next year.