Youth Orchestra Without Borders is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides/supports housing, education, mental health counseling, and classical music therapy to North Korean refugee children.
The children who defect from North Korea have been robbed of the same opportunities to the arts that most of us have been afforded throughout our lives. When these children defect from North Korea and arrive in South Korea, they are void of an understanding of art and lack purpose. Much of their lives have been riddled with domestic abuse, indoctrination into the North Korean lie, and tragedy beyond what we can understand. Many lose their parents, are forced to work at labor camps, or become victims of human trafficking.
The experiences of these children are diverse both in age and assimilation into South Korean life but they are connected through their experiences in both North and South Korea and now through this orchestra. We aim to help these children assimilate to South Korea by providing a sanctuary from their traumatic upbringing and hopeless reality after their escape.
Please support YOWB to help these North Korean refugee children.