The Newsroom Blog

Mormon Helping Hands Serving at Pyeongchang Winter Olympics

Mormon Helping Hands, the Church’s program for worldwide volunteer community service, has a center that provides services to support a successful Pyeongchang Olympic Games.

     

Staffed by more than 20 volunteers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Gangneung, South Korea, the Helping Hands Center offers interpretation services in nine languages, a winter sports photo zone, DIY activities for families, free Wi-Fi, and a place to warm up, enjoy warm beverages, recharge cell phones, watch live Olympic broadcasts and even explore one’s family history.

The center is cooperating with the local police department to prevent foreigner-targeted crime. Go Kwang-young, director of the Gangneung City Volunteer Center, helped facilitate a partnership between the police department and the Helping Hands Center. She expressed gratitude for such collaboration, noting that the “volunteer service and talents offered in this center will help the Gangneung city to develop further.”

         

  

The Helping Hands Center is open daily during the 2018 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games through March 25, 2018. All are welcome.

Browse the Blog

About The Blog: This blog is managed and written by staff of the Public Affairs Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The information here is reliable and accurate but should not necessarily be viewed as official statements from the Church. The purpose of this blog is to provide journalists, bloggers, and the public with additional context and information regarding public issues involving the Church. For official news releases and statements from the Church, visit MormonNewsroom.org.

Style Guide Note: When reporting about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, please use the complete name of the Church in the first reference. For more information on the use of the name of the Church, go to our online Style Guide.