this has given me yet another excuse for postponing my plans — a reason that is connected with the very reason I began this task, which makes it difficult for me to make up my mind.
When I come across Min-woo and the other children, I don’t see it as being a volunteer but rather as taking on the role of their mentor—someone who will be able to continue guiding them throughout their lives after they grow up. Since I was observing them, I came to the conclusion that what they needed was education, and I wanted the children who live in places like Min-woo’s to be able to obtain that education via volunteers. That is the reason why I developed the VolKo app.
At this point I am beginning to question whether it is really education that these children require; the more I get to know Min-woo, the more I suspect that what they in fact need is not education but rather a continuous network of external relationships that they can maintain. It is possible that more important than a hundred hours of lessons is having a mentor who opens up a new perspective on the world for them, even if this happens only once a month.
I need to consider what direction VolKo should go.