Rubber Seoul

I will be volunteering with The Little Travellers organization here in Seoul for World Aids Day. Tessa introduced them to me and I'm pretty excited to be helping out. The event is in an area of Seoul called Hongdae, the university area, and we will be joining another great organization called Grassroots Uganda.

Here is some information from their website:

The Little Travellers HIV/AIDS Initiative is orchestrated by a group of ordinary people, who really want to do something to ease the burden of HIV/AIDS & poverty in Africa. This is a true grassroots project: the initiative got its start at the University of Manitoba in 2005 after a few curious beaded dolls - lovingly made at the Hillcrest AIDS Centre in South Africa - were discovered to have stowed-away in the luggage of an unsuspecting volunteering returning from the Centre.

The dolls, affectionately named "Little Travellers", were recognized as an opportunity to raise money and awareness for the plight of the crafters, all of whom are affected by HIV/AIDS, and others that the dedicated staff at the AIDS Centre work tirelessly to help.