The 2008 Pangaea Volunteer of the Year Award Ceremony was held today (April 9, 2009) at the MIZY Center in Seoul.

Ms. Sophia Ji-hye Yoon, one of our 300 hard working volunteers, was awarded the Pangaea Volunteer of the Year for 2008 in recognition of her outstanding leadership toward organizing the MIZY Center activity site and efforts to bring new ideas to Pangaea. She has also devoted to training facilitators in Soul.

We invited Mr. Hyung-Kun Choi, director of the MIZY Center, as well as some other guests who have been working with Ms. Ji-hye Yoon, to the ceremony. Ms. Ji-hye Yoon received a plaque and appreciation gift from Yumiko Mori, president of Pangaea.

After the ceremony, the Pangaea Facilitator Training Session took place. It started at 18:30. We got 10 brand new facilitators, including high school students. They will participate in the Pangaea Activity, scheduled on April 11 and will then be given a certification.

In addition, two new Facilitator Leaders, who had completed the Facilitator Leader Training yesterday (April 8), are supposed to join the April 11 Activity.　Both of them are college students and have been volunteering for Pangaea as a facilitator for three years. I can’t wait to see them again at the activity.

Takekazu Hanada a.k.a Hana-pooh
Chief Administrative Officer