🌅Happy New Year of the Red Horse🐎💙
Happy Lunar New Year with your loved ones.
We wish your life is filled with health and happiness in the new year too.
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🌱The History of BTF Embodied in Its Name🌳 |
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An NGO's name is a promise containing what it wants to protect and what changes it wants to create.
BTF's name changes are footsteps of expanding the scope of values and responsibilities to embrace more children. |
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🙅The Name That Made Problems Visible: The Foundation for Preventing Youth Violence (FPYV) |
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The Foundation for Preventing Youth Violence, the first in our society to bring school violence issues to the surface ⓒBTF |
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In 1995, when the term 'school violence' didn't even exist in our society, the foundation's first name ‘The Foundation for Preventing Youth Violence (FPYV)’ sent a clear signal to our society.
It was a name that made us view violence not as deviance or individual problems occasionally caused by some students, but as society's responsibility requiring us to establish systems and protection networks together, and first revealed to the world the belief that prevention is possible.
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🏫Closer to the Field: FPYV |
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FPYV promoting the National School Violence Counseling Hotline 1588-9128 to youths ⓒBTF |
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As time passed, what needed to be done became clearer. Activities that initially started with counseling to help victim students after school violence occurred now expanded to prevention activities protecting children before violence happens.
At the center of change was always the 'field,' and a name was needed to approach students more familiarly. Thus, the name shortened from ‘The Foundation for Preventing Youth Violence' to ‘FPYV’ expanded activities to more schools and regions.
We met children, met guardians and teachers, and created practical prevention methods needed in the field through practical activities connecting schools and society.
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🌳Embracing Youths Like a Towering Tree: Blue Tree FPYV |
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Blue Tree FPYV's 'Blue Shirts Campaign' conducted with celebrities' talent donations ⓒBTF |
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We directly asked children about the image of 'adults' they could lean on. As a result, the image most children first recalled was a ‘tree’. A steadfast presence that silently offers a place to lean, becomes shade when tired, and gives strength to grow again.
To capture that heart in our name, we added 'Blue Tree.' We also developed a new tree symbol containing the image of adults protecting and embracing children. We moved one step further to ‘Blue Tree FPYV’ firmly supporting children's lives beyond school violence. |
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🌳Beyond Violence to Youth's Lives: The Blue Tree Foundation |
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BTF staff members unveiling The Blue Tree Foundation name ⓒBTF |
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Dedicating ourselves to activities, we realized: Eliminating violence is not just stopping violence, but helping youth regain the strength to live safely again.
So we set down the word 'violence' from the foundation's name and expanded to ‘The Blue Tree Foundation’ embracing hope.
We are moving forward step by step so children can rise again beyond violence, and so all violence can disappear from the world surrounding children to become a forest of non-violence. |
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🌏Solidarity Beyond Borders: BTF |
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BTF UN Youth Delegates at the UN Headquarters in New York ⓒBTF |
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And now, under the name BTF, we are conveying our promise farther.
Since school violence and cyber violence issues are not challenges for any single country alone, global solidarity is needed to share experiences and create solutions together.
‘BTF(The Blue Tree Foundation)’ is the name of that connection. Based on the path we have walked, we are cooperating across borders and creating directions for change together so children worldwide can grow safely. |
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During the 31 years we have operated while changing names, what we wanted to protect was always one thing: Youth's happy and safe growth.
Moving forward, BTF will continue creating a world where children are happy, standing closest by youth's side with more people and broader solidarity.🌍💙 |
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📰BTF Founder Kim Jong-ki, Chosun Ilbo Interview Coverage
An interview with BTF Honorary Chairman Kim Jong-ki was reported. Meet honest stories from the catalyst for establishing the foundation to difficulties faced in the operation process, and grateful help that enabled continuing activities despite them.
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☘️Marte Meo International Workshop Application (~13 Mar)
Marte Meo, meaning "with my own strength," is a video-media-based interaction analysis method used in about 50 countries worldwide. Participate in the Marte Meo certification course that Blue Tree Foundation introduced as the first in Korea.
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🐘Hanui Taekwondo Association Donation Delivery
School violence prevention non-verbal taekwondo musical performance ‘Didn't Go to School’. containing growth from 'bystander' to 'actor.' Meet Hanui Baram Taekwondo Association's story of admiration for stages created and performed directly by youth and the touching donation.
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Would you like to hear more updates from BTF?
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The Blue Tree Foundation
From: jikim0098@btf.or.kr
Address: 88, Seocho-daero 46-gil, Seoul, South Korea
Phone: +82 2-585-0098
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