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40 ft Rice Meal Container on the way to North Korea
May 2012 UPDATEAfter what seems endless discussions since last year, Feed the Hungry finally able to send a 40ft container of rice meal to feed at least 800 children for 4 months. The container will be sent to Nampo where children are cared for by NAFEC. We are pleased to report that together with our donors, we can bless those with needs. THANK YOU for donating shipping cost. Dongrim Orphan School – Shinaju North Korea Feeding Program – HELP to provide a school meal for needy students Project Shin Ranmen (noodle)
A visit to Pyongyang University of Science & Technology
March 2011
Faculty Buildings A group of 5 from US, Canada, Hong Kong were invited to visit PUST early March 2011. We were so impressed to find the University bearing the same mark, tradition and education direction as the sister University YUST (Yanbian University of Science and Technology) in China. Classes are taught in English, and internet access has been promised to all students. When we visited them, it was their school opening day for the new Spring Term, each senior student was given a computer to use. We also visited the University’s facilities.
We also took time to visit this capital city of North Korea
North Korean Workers' Party 65th Anniversary Celebration 10 Oct 2010
Three of us from Hong Kong were invited to attend the 65th Anniversary Celebration in Pyongyang, after which we were to travel by train to Shinaju to see some orphan schools and how we could help. The Celebration was nothing I have ever seen before, Pyongyang put up a really good celebration with many events. The whole city was in festivities, people smiling, ladies in their traditional “hanbok”, gentlemen in army uniform or suits. Street and building lights were all sparkled and shinning throughout the evening. All sort of activities were organized to remember such special day, with many oversea visitors and press to cover the event.
Visit to Shinaju, Wonsan and Dongrim, North Pyongyan Orphanages
After all the visits, Feed the Hungry decided to join the Shin Ramen Project, to ship 800-1,000 cartons of Ramen to the schools every quarter to help kids with some noodles. We welcome your participation to subscribe to purchase the Ranmen, each carton costs HK$50 including shipping from Dandong China to Shinaju NK. We also work on sending clothing, stationeries, sport equipment, and install hot water bath house, so the children can have hot baths in the winter. We need your support to help those not able to help themselves.  VISIT TO TUMEN RIVER VOCATIONAL SCHOOL 14-17 May 2010Tumen River Vocational School (“TRVS”) is part of Feed the Hungry’s North East Asian caring concern. TRVS offers a three-year academic program that covers a core curriculum and specialized courses. It is registered with the Tumen City Board of Education and the Chinese government. The core curriculum emphasizes computer skills, Korean, Chinese, and basic English, and it also covers history, ethics, geography, music, and physical education. Students, ages 16-24, make-up of ethnic Korean Chinese (Chosunjok) minority. All courses are instructed in Korean, with the exception of Chinese language and English conversation courses. Currently 86 students, or two-thirds, live in the school dormitory on site. Teachers coming from China, S Korea, America and Canada How we got involved? FTH having a close relationship with Tumen River Area Development Initiatives, they are our partners who handle the feeding of North Korean Children with bread and soymilk in Sunbong, they also run this Vocational School on the China side. In the small capacity to share love and care, we visit the school regularly to give encouragement to the teachers and students, we bring greetings from Hong Kong, sharing of fellowship, meals, games and do outing with the youth, we co-ordinate special classes for our volunteers to teach, we bring gifts to enrich the environment, together we want to see the Chosun move up and get on.    Special educational toys for the Kindergarten   We spent time with the youth and joined their regular hikes. The Green Apple Café – part of TRVS   Built inside the school, to give youth a learning opportunity on bakery industry, serving customers, prepare simple drinks and sandwiches. On Saturday morning, it is opened to any one interested to learn English. A very happy meeting point. Own and run by an English couple from Scotland, they want to get involved in serving the Chosun people. FTH supports gifts in kind to their computer room, hair dressing class, kindergarten, Green Apple Café, we continue wanting to love this group and to serve them better and serve them in love. Join Us – in loving them – Be their friends – visit them as our volunteers. WHY there are Chosun people in China? Historic Background Most of the Koreans in China are descendants of migrants who fled the Korean peninsula, which lies to the east of the country, at the end of the Chosun Dynasty in 1910 and during the Japanese colonial period of 1910-45. Now numbering some 1.88 million, these ethnic Koreans, popularly known as "Chosun" people, have settled mostly in northeastern China where they are spread out among some 4,000 villages. For generations, they lived in relative peace, even though they stood out because of their Korean culture and language. Often, many had problems blending in with the Chinese people. Chosun Jok is a close-knit community in Northeast Chinese. You find them in Yanji, bordering Russia and North Korea, Jilin province, Changchun, Huachuan, Dalian, Heilung Zhou, Haerbin etc. We also visited other sites during this trip to get to know Yanji
   In the final hours of the war, the Japanese originally built this bridge to facilitate their own tanks and soldiers to pour into North East China from Korea, their intention was to take control of Xinjin (新京)-Tumen (圖們)-Changchun (長春) line and east of the Dalian (大連). On August 15, 1945, Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration, and the war ended. The army ordered the destroy of this bridge as they hastily retreated into the now North Korea. This area was near the border between Manchuria and Korea. In their haste, the bridge was only 1/4 destroyed, today we can still see this bridge as a reminder of what took place historically. At this point, North Korea is so near to China.  Photos and Sharing on the Feeding in N Korea In 2005 Feed the Hungry began feeding 2,500 school children working with a local partner in Sunbong, North Korea   It is a joy to see children have a piece of bread to eat   Our Bakers       We felt this is not enough, so we began to look for partners that could help us to expand the feeding program.   By 2009 we were able to partner with a government registered NGO inside North Korea to feed 6,000 children with a piece of bread and 4,000 children with a cup of soymilk in two areas of Sunbong. The bread is sent to school, children homes and elderly people homes   May 2009, we decided to expand the feeding, we need a proper soymilk factory to produce 10,000 cups of soymilk per day, and we also need to expand the bread factory to have production efficiency to bring to 10,000 pieces of bread per day. We knew we must complete the projects by December before winter set in.   The building was finished just before deep winter settled in North Korea in December 2009.     The extended bread factory is next door to the new soymilk factory. Now we are ready for production for 10,000 pieces of bread and 10,000 cups of soymilk daily.  We need help with: (1) ONGOING MONTH TO MONTH COST OF RUNNING THE BREAD FACTORY (2) HARDWARE NEEDED TO SUPPORT THE BREAD FACTORY. Why do we have to support? Here is an extract from NK Daily’s September 15 2009 Reflecting on his school experience in North Korea, Chung Hyun Chul (pseudonym, 19), who entered South Korea in December 2008 after defecting from Buryeong in North Hamkyung Province, explained sadly, "I could not attend school even though I was of the proper age.” He said, "Among my nine friends who lived in the same building and attended the same school as me, not one of them attended consistently. The circumstances of the children who could not attend school ranged from those who did not even have food to eat to those who just lacked clothing, shoes and notebooks." All of Chung’s nine friends were born in households which struggled to have three meals a day. Among them, two had parents who were traders, but their incomes were insufficient. Parents tend to be increasingly absent from home when household economics grow dire. In such circumstances, children travel in packs and often resort to stealing.  Nine friends, unable to attend school, resort to steal potatoes and corn to support their families. Getting caught meant serious beatings or jail sentence. POVERTY AND FAMINE PREVENTS CHILDREN FROM ATTENDING SCHOOL!
Infant mortality rate: 27/1000 Literacy rate 90% Life Expectancy 69.5 years Government type: highly centralized
For HK$50 or the price of a cup of coffee and a piece of pastry, you can help one child receiving a cup of soymilk and a piece of bread in school. ACT NOW ! |
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We are currently supporting the supply of Shin Ranmen to a rural orphan school in Dongrim, Shinaju, North Korea. The school cares for well over 200 school children and over 20 teachers and staff. We invite donors to subscribe a carton (20 packets) of Shin Ranmen bought in Dandong at HK$50 per carton including land transport cost, to truck into Shinaju from Dandong to this School direct. We are happy to report last December, we raised HK$50,000 to purchase the noodles. See this happy pictures of noodles ready to ship to the School and the Head Master came to Shinaju to pick up the goodies. Look at how the children enjoy the noodles. We are preparing the next shipment in May. We invite you to subscribe as many cartons of Shin Ranmen as you desire to bless the children (
Pust and Yust works hand in hand with Northeast Asia Foundation for Education & Culture, their rice feeding program helps 3,947 children, ages ranging from 4~7, and the 3,565 Pre- School toddlers in the Kang Dong Gun area near Pyongyang. NAFEC runs a children hom in An-Hwa Dong Rasun City, North Hamkyung Province. 
If you are interested to support NAFEC’s rice programs or to join the Adopt the North Korean Children Program, please contact 
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