"Barefoot youth" went to Inner Mongolia to teach by train for 4 days and 4 nights.
Yang Xiao, Yanwu and Zheng Jingjing are undergraduates of UCL. They all cherish the dream of teaching in rural areas of China, but being in a foreign country doesn't give them many opportunities to join domestic non-profit organizations to realize this dream. Several people immediately hit it off. On 20 10, they set up an organization called barefoot youth, describing themselves as "barefoot youth" who have not been trained with professional teacher qualification certificate but are enthusiastic about rural education. BY posting recruitment posts on the Internet, BY has rapidly expanded to seven members, including British and American students and domestic college students.
Because it is a voluntary action, each member has to pay the cost of participating in teaching. In March, Yang Xiao and others held a bread bazaar in UCL to raise money for education. The charity bazaar was responded by Chinese and foreign students, and then they extended the on-site charity bazaar to online pre-purchase, and raised nearly 500 pounds in educational donations within a few days. Everyone contacted Baotou, Inner Mongolia, which was welcomed by the local government, and finally decided to take Guyang County under Baotou as the object of teaching. In late July this year, 10 college students, including Yang Xiao, went to Guyang from Yunnan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shanghai to teach. Two of the boys arrived in Baotou by train from Yunnan, which lasted nearly four days and four nights.
In Guyang No.2 Middle School, BY members used short films, movies, slides and multilingual teaching in Britain, Germany and Japan to have a brainstorming summer camp with a group of junior one children. Yang Xiao recalled, "We told them English physics, English economics and English mathematics. They all understood and interacted well." For this group of teaching objects who have entered middle school and have good comprehensive quality, "barefoot youth" feel that they can use their overseas study experience to describe a broader world and a more distant future, and clarify the truth that knowledge can change their destiny.
Later, BY moved to Huai Shuo Town Central Primary School in Guyang County and participated in a week-long guerrilla summer camp, including movies, interesting English classes and interactive games. It is the first time for international students to teach locally, and the youngest teaching object is only 5 years old. The children's school conditions are far worse than those in the county, and the farthest children have to use the government's daily shuttle bus to attend the teaching classes provided by. In addition to interactive classes every day, BY members also visited more than a dozen families and selected some particularly poor children. Each family gives them grants ranging from 500 yuan to 1000 yuan, and * * * grants 4,000 yuan. The money was originally raised by Yang Xiao and Yanwu at UCL Bread Charity Fair (including 65,438+0,000 yuan as organizational reserve).
BY's aid to poor students does not stop there. They decided to launch a twinning donation to the society online, and gather all forces to help those children with special difficulties find long-term donors, so that the donation of love can become a sustainable public welfare undertaking.
"Smile China" appeals to overseas students to donate clothes to warm Tibetan areas.
In fact, British Chinese charity has never lacked international students. At the beginning of 2008, overseas students participated in every charity performance, long-distance running, fund-raising and other activities, such as the southern ice disaster, Wenchuan earthquake, Yushu earthquake and Haiti earthquake. Dai Jinbo is one of the overseas students who have participated in many overseas public welfare activities. In London, Dai Jinbo spent the whole summer preparing a large-scale and influential charity event "Smile, China".
Dai Jinbo studied business administration at middlesex University before, and now he is the marketing director of a China enterprise in London, and also serves as the standing committee member of the All-England Students' Union in London. This year, when he is ready to return to China and pack up his "belongings" in a few years, he will sort out a batch of clothes that are no longer needed. It's a pity to throw it away, so he came up with an idea: Can we call on students studying in Britain, China people and even locals to donate clothes that are no longer needed and worn together to needy children in poor areas of China?
Old clothes are shipped back to China in obedience to Britain without paying taxes. This kind of charity is practical and does not involve cash. Dai Jinbo thinks it is very feasible. So he began to operate, and soon decided that the All-England Federation of Students, the European Youth Association and his upcoming "Smile China Charity Association" were the organizers of the event. With five years' working experience as a student and familiar contacts in the student union, his Clothing Solicitation Order was publicized and published by the student unions in London, brunell, Greenwich and other neighboring universities, and was collected.
Dai Jinbo said that with the deepening of the activity, the clothing collection point will be extended to other parts of the UK. In terms of recipients, Dai Jinbo has contacted Zhongba County in Shigatse, Tibet and Rangtang County in Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province, a national poverty-stricken county, to receive donations.
There is still a long way to go before the public welfare for international students is mature.
BY's work continues. At present, they are summing up their teaching, and the website covering the new content of this teaching will also be revised and updated. At the same time, BY will look to the longer-term future-looking for donation enterprises or charities to improve the educational environment in the teaching areas.
BY Captain Yang Xiao introduced that they had accumulated experience in Guyang this summer. With the expansion of members, increasing attention and support, BY will register and establish a formal public welfare organization to engage in rural education in China in conjunction with overseas universities.
It is not only BY but also Dai Jinbo's wish to run public welfare undertakings for a long time. Dai Jinbo said that the "Smile China" Association will always be engaged in charity in China and Britain, and will also recruit volunteers who are interested in charity. After the event is officially launched, it will go through the stages of issuing clothes claim forms, collecting clothes and transporting them to the receiving area. After that, I hope to select a capable person through social elections every year to hold public welfare activities that year.