Despite the summer heat, Yonseians spread love to neighbors in need in Korea and abroad. Volunteer activities for rural communities supporting agriculture and farming areas took place for 9 days from June 27th to July 5th in 30 villages of 6 regions in Nonsan, South Chungcheong Province. The student body organized the activities and some 530 students participated in them for a day and up to 9 days. Volunteer work did not include simply helping locals with agricultural tasks, but also other programs customized to the needs of respective villages such as being companions for senior citizens living alone and providing education for children. Kim Chang-min (Ceramic Engineering) who participated in the volunteer program for rural communities said that, “I realized once again that we are not alone, that we should live together with others around us. I learnt that I should broaden my view toward the world and take notice of our neighbors.” The woman’s student body volunteer group visited Sorok Island, a small beautiful island once a place for the quarantining of people with Hansen's disease. The 5-day volunteer work took place from August 20th to 24th. Thirty-five students helped with the laundry and cleaning of the village, houses and the beach as well as carrying out other errands. They also organized a village festival and had a wonderful time with the villagers. The volunteer group was able to feel firsthand the suffering of patients of Hansen’s disease and learn the spirit of serving and sharing. College of Engineering volunteer group consisting of 17 students and 4 professors visited Tanjung Priok and Muara Karang regions near Jakarta, Indonesia. Over 9 days, starting from July 16th, the volunteers painted walls of impoverished schools, provided meals for children in poverty and held one-day classes. The students also held cultural exchange programs with Indonesian university students. Yonsei Volunteer Service Center also sent a group of 16 volunteer workers to a youth welfare center in Birla Village near Hanoi and to a social protection center in Bavi, Vietnam. The volunteers held programs to promote science and creativity, and enhance sociality of children there. Other programs included cultural exchange with the students from ULSA(University of Labor & Social Affair) in Vietnam and volunteer activity at the Blood Transmission Institute for pediatric cancer patients. After visiting a welfare center in Hanoi for development of cooperative programs in 2007, Yonsei University has been dispatching a volunteer group to the same region annually since 2010 as part of the ‘Yonsei Global Volunteer Belt,’ a plan initiated by the Yonsei Volunteer Service Center. The plan includes 5 countries in Asia – Vietnam, Nepal, Mongolia and the Philippines – aiming to foster friendship and to provide Yonsei’s social welfare as a model for development of a greater infrastructure in underdeveloped regions in Asia. The Yonsei-Waseda program established in 2007 to help rural communities in Yan-gu, Gangwon Province, is also an extension of the ‘Yonsei Global Volunteer Belt’ plan. Every year, students from Yonsei and Waseda University visit areas near the DMZ to help mine victims. Students are faced with the realities of war, and through volunteer work and discussions of peace, they seek understanding and harmony. Similar joint programs combining resources and development potential are being pursued with developing countries, such as Vietnam, to introduce a new volunteer service model.