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Youth Voice is the main initiative of Daum Foundation’s Youth & Media Program.
Through diverse initiatives, such as Youth Voice, Center, and Online Platform, Daum Foundation strives to provide an environment to enable our next generation to seek ways to express themselves and enjoy life.

Youth Voice provides financial and equipment support for creative youth media production, to enable youths to take the initiative to proactively produce media. Grants are provided for media production and various media education and mentoring.
Outstanding teams are awarded with internships and overseas field trips, among other new experiences.

The Youth Voice Center is a community-based meeting place for the systematic promotion of youth media activities.
Daum Foundation designates Youth Voice Centers from community-based institutes and groups each year through an annual selection process. Successful candidates are provided with operation expenses, media education programs and equipment for a maximum of three years.

“Tortee” is an online mentoring program (e-Mentoring), in which business employees and executives participate. e-Mentors, the employees and executives of companies and e-Mentees, or youths, form one-on-one relationships and steadily communicate via the “Tortee” web site.
Through that, youths learn life skills needed for interpersonal relations and other relevant skills needed to function as members of society.

The Infortrust Web Awards are designed to collect, evaluate and choose, with the help of Internet users, Internet heritages worthy of preservation from among online information that disappears. In 2005, the Awards were limited to 3 major categories in technology, Internet culture and sociopolitical/civic activism, and 18 sub-categories.
The coverage is scheduled to be expanded and diversified to include video, images, etc.

The EHARU616 Campaign was launched with the objective of mobilizing Internet users to record and capture information that flows rapidly throughout the Internet in a state of constant flux on June 16 each year, if only on that day.
The Internet evolves at breathtaking pace, but the information there disappears, without being preserved. We believe that the Internet should be recorded and preserved, as do museums and libraries. The information documented through the EHARU616 Campaign will become valuable resources for future generations to get a glimpse of an aspect of the past Internet culture.

The “L'Oreal Group Home Program" is a joint initiative by L’Oreal and Daum Foundation.
The "L'Oreal Group Home Program" was established to support the alternative family, Group Home, and address the difficulties of its members. Group Home is a residence for abused, abandoned children/juveniles or children/juveniles who cannot live with their parents due to financial problems or due to break-up of their families. About 5 to 10 children/juveniles live together in a Group Home.

Media & Communication Grants seeks to expand opportunities for youths who wish to express themselves and communicate freely through media, by supporting and seeking out diverse projects that can contribute to the wiser use of media.

Cultural Diversity Grant is awarded to research projects and programs.
Research projects include Master’s theses on cultural diversity, while programs include those for empowerment of the minority, that enable expansion of the scope of cultural diversity and understanding of different cultures, and translation and creation of works to promote understanding of cultural diversity.