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The Black Belt Foundation is a non-profit, 501c(3) organization co-founded by Grand Master J. W. Kim in 2007.  The goal of The Black Belt Foundation is to use the values of Taekwondo to help people break out of the restrictive cycles of poverty, poor education, and poor health. 

The students served by The Black Belt Foundation live in the favelas (slums) in the state of Alagoas.  These students live in dilapidated shanties, and often go without food, medicine, and other basic needs.  They are exposed to drugs and violence early in life and often quit school to beg for food and money to help their families survive.

 Through teaching Taekwondo, it is the mission of The Black Belt Foundation to improve the lives of the extremely impoverished in Brazil by teaching them community, responsibility, perseverance, and teamwork.  Taekwondo training provides a constructive, healthy alternative to avoid the streets that are notorious for destroying lives.