Oak Tree Project supporters

Trying to help the Oak Tree Project reach its financial goal to provide scholarships and mentoring to Korean orphans who wish to attend university.

This is the site http://www.oaktreeproject.com/
Please check it out to see more detail on what they are trying to do in Korea.

The person leading and running this project is John-Michael Becker and you can learn more about him at http://www.jerusalemministry.org/

Your support will go towards providing students with a scholarship and will also help provide for books and the student's meals during their monthly meetings with their mentors. If you want to get more involved with the students, you can also receive updates about the students if you choose to sponsor them monthly.

However, small or big - let's do our part in helping out.

기업은행 (IBK/INDUSTRIAL BANK) - 588-041156-01-026 (사단법인 참나무프로젝트)

To give in USD (or by international credit card): https://give.lifesong.org/lifesong/oak-tree-project

Oak Tree Project is a scholarship fund/mentoring program for Korean orphans attending university.

Most of the children who leave the orphanages have no emotional or financial support. Loneliness, depression, suicidal thoughts, vulnerability to bad jobs and bad influences, and alcohol abuse are all huge dangers for these kids. For most of them they have no one to mentor them and help them get on their feet. The few who are able to attend college often give up because they are so worn out from working all the time to provide for their tuition.

Oak Tree Project was formed to not just provide a scholarship for the orphans, but to also serve as a mentoring program that would give the kids the emotional support and direction that they so sorely need. Although their lives have been rooted in the storms of rejection and struggle, we believe through the love and support of the program they will be able to rise up above the storms as mighty oak trees, unshakable in their identity.

Oak Tree Project began with just four recipients in 2013. The program has grown with each year and as of 2024 112 students have received a scholarship with us and already 47 students have graduated through the program. 

Out of the 500,000won given a month, a typical student’s budget is…
40% (~200,000won) spent on food
15% (~75,000won) spent on transportation
15% (~75,000won) spent on personal needs
15% (~75,000won) spent on school supplies and events
15% (~75,000won) spent on cell phone

All staff and mentors in the program serve strictly as volunteers.

Oak Tree Project is a registered NGO in America and is registered in Korea under the NGO Jerusalem Ministry (예루살렘선교회).