ANSAN YMCA Grass-Root Environment Center


1. Objective
- Driving Green Eco-City Movement with the public.
- Operating environmental education programs for local residents and children.
- Enhancing environmental awareness and attitude of citizen.
- Assisting local schools do better environmental education.


2. Contact
Address:
 528-3 Hanmi Bank Bd., Gojan-Dong, Ansan City, Kyonggi-Do
Tel:
 +82-31-410-6925 Fax: +82-31-487-1881
URL:
 http://www.shihwaho.or.kr
(under construction)		 Email: ansany@chollian.net

3. Organization Structure
Established: 06/1996
Divisions: General Affairs Div., Environmental Education Div., and Environmental Information Div.
Staff No.: 4 full-time staffs
Director: Gapgon Kim

4. Foundation
Foundation Annual Budget 2005 Settlement 2004 Resources
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N/A
70,000,000 Won
 1. Grants
2. Membership fee

5. Regular Environmental Education Program
Project Name
Place
 Operational Features
Training for
Eco-guiders
Ansan City,
Sihwa Lake
Oee Island
Wetland,
Chilbo Mt.,
Suri Mt.,
Hwarang pond
 - Field oriented environmental education.
- Training eco-guiders, students and citizens based a manual for eco-tourism.
- Have been holding an eco-tour in each season since 1999.
- Consisted of 10 training sections.
- About 20 participants per section.
Environmental Teachers Group ANSAN YMCA
Grass-Root
Environment
Center
 - Inviting and listening to experts in ecology and environmental education.
- Conducting a research project in connection with university professors.
- Co-working among schools and teachers through holding seminars, publishing newspapers and homepage-building.
Monitoring
Sihwa Lake
 Sihwa Lake - Aiming at protecting wildlife, plants and natural remains near Sihwa.
- Composed of water quality monitoring team, wildlife monitoring team and natural remains monitoring team.
- Doing regular and irregular monitoring activities.
- The natural remains monitoring team inspected the area in connection with local residents.

6. Other Environmental Education Programs
- Green Children Scout
- Green Ecology Research Group Activities in 1998
- Silwa Lake Ecological Survey in 2000


7. Publications
Type
Title
Price
Publisher
Periodical
 "Ansan Report (Annual)" Not for sale ANSAN YMCA
Grass-Root Environment Center
Others
 "Ecological Environment Guide Education" Not for sale
Others
 "Green Children Scout Manual"
 Not for sale

8. Partnership
Green Kyunggi Agenda 21, Green Kyunggi Self-governed network, Ansan City, Korea Water Corporation

9. Plans in the next 5 years

- Playing a local information center for environmental education and movement.
- Building an alliance with school environment teachers through workshops and seminars.
- Planning a homepage that can serve as a center for the information network.

10. Self Evaluation

- Despite the budgetary limit and low participation rate of local residents, a variety of environmental education programs have been successfully completed.
- With environmental education researchers, a comprehensive evaluation should be done to make a long-term plan and improving existing programs.

11. Expectation toward TEEN and Message

- Required for Korean NGOs to build reciprocal alliance for expanding and vitalizing social environmental education.
- Needed to establish an international information network for environmental education prior to building a network among the three countries.