Community

Each December, students in all grades at YHIMS participate in a giving-back project. This culminating project is the application of everything they have learned about cultural awareness, advocacy, teen voices, and civic engagement. Students work with their entire homeroom class to give back to the community, the country, or the world. Each class elects student leaders and plans, manages, and shares their project completely independently. In the past, YHIMS students have made an impact in their community by donating school supplies, books, and other goods to charity. They have made a difference in Korea by raising money for a national charity. YHIMS students have also used various applications that reward users with donations to world-wide charities. This tradition has been kept since 2021, and the local, national, and global impact of YHIMS students continues to grow each year.

Another way YHIMS students participate in giving back globally is through the Freerice program. Freerice is a game developed by the World Food Programme with the goal of fighting world hunger. Students answer trivia questions, and answering one question correctly is equivalent to donating 10 grains of rice to a human in need. As an extension of the Global Leadership Program, students participate in monthly Freerice challenges as well as work together with their homeroom class to compete with other classes. As a school, we are in the top 40 groups globally, with over 54 million grains of rice donated since 2021.