Dandelion Project, a registered Hong Kong charity, was founded in early 2013 by a group of local students from different universities, who pay the common attention to education in rural areas of China. The project aims to offer an opportunity, through means including voluntary teaching and home visiting, for students in rural areas to learn about knowledge outside the classroom and broaden horizon, at the same time, for Hong Kong university students to gain a firsthand experience of those students’ happiness and joy, as well as of Chinese culture in rural areas.
We are a group of students from different universities in Hong Kong and have profound feelings on helplessness and limitations faced with children living in rural areas of china owing
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Through voluntary teaching, exhibition, sharing session and various activities, Dandelion Projects leads volunteers across the different areas in China, spreading the seeds of hope to children in rural areas, just like dandelion. We help children realize the importance of studying by mental and behavioral education in order to let them know effort and knowledge are the key to lifting them out of poverty and creating a new …show more content…
Volunteers share the positive view of life with children in rural areas and encourage them to go out of poverty by instilling them with positive information
In order to encourage the diversified growth of students in rural areas, Dandelion Projects advocate creative teaching. For instance, when teaching traditional subjects like English or Science, we add creative topics like environmental protection, leadership training, life education and adopt active teaching method with small-class setting. With these methods, students can develop in a more diversified way.
The voluntary teaching trips are open to all university students in Hong Kong so that we can make a better use of advantages of different universities, backgrounds, profession. As for volunteers , they can help and learn from each other, which promotes culture exchange among different universities. Up to now, we have recruited volunteers from University of Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hang Seng Management of
Thousands of books and essays about poverty, causes and possible fixes have been written for others to gain an understanding and pocket a little bit of knowledge so this can soon be fixed. There are millions of organizations in today’s world that beg for money, clothes, and food so they can be sent overseas to help a poor child in Uganda or Haiti. Helping nationwide is always a good thing to be a part of; however, there are many things that can be done in each person’s community, which is always a great place to start.
Scientific name -Kingdom-Plantea, Phylum- Tracheophyta, Class- Angiospermae, Order- Asterales, Family- Asteraceca, Genus- Taraxacum, Species- officialeDescription - The Taraxacum officiale is a perennial herb that grows from two to eighteen inches tall they are a stem less plant and all parts of the plant contain a milky juice. The leaves are an olive or a dull yellowish color, and smooth with ridged edges where it got its common name, dandelion from the French words "dent de lion" which means lions tooth. The stalks are simple smooth, brittle and hollow. The flowers are one and a half-inch wide and a golden yellow color. The flower blooms from April to August, from 6am to 8pm. They have taproots that can grow up to three feet long in soft soil. There are about 150 to 200 flowerets that are strap shaped that make up the flower.Habitat - Their habitat is in the Northern Temperate Zones located in Europe and Asia. Then the colonists from Europe brought in to America. The plant usually grows lawns.Life cycle - The life cycle of the dandelion is when the adult is mature enough the flowerets turn into seeds with a fluff on it. This fluff enables the seed to be picked up the wind to carry it away from the parent plant.Importance - The dandelion has many little known uses to people. Like the roots are bitter, but they can be boiled put into salads when they are young, or they can be used as potherbs. The roots can be roasted and used as a substitute for coffee. The milky juice is used in some tonics for disorders in the digestive system and the liver. The flower stalks can be yields some rubber in the form of threads.
I have been blessed with the opportunity to partake in volunteer activities through school and outside of school. Through VMS, I worked with organizations like Habitat for Humanity and with homeless in Denver through the Grant Street Reach. Still, it wasn’t until I started tutoring local underprivileged kids within our valley community, that I understood the true value of locally targeted programs.
Teachers help us expand and open our mind by giving us skills throughout students’ early life to help students when they are older. By learning information from teachers, students become better people, in a couple of ways. Besides inquiring knowledge from their teachers, students learn to work with one another, open their mind to other peoples’ thoughts and ideas, respect one another, and learn different techniques for life’s issues.
Within the first year of opening they had helped fifty-two girls see their greatness and help them strive for a better future.Mr. Don J. Brewster was the pastor for a catholic church in Sacramento,California. He went on his first trip to Cambodia in 2005, which was to see the missions his church has been supporting for years. Upon arrival to Svay Pak the only issue only seemed to be poverty, he played with the children, visited the pastors from the missions, and went back on his way home. The next day, after he arrived home, he turned on the news, and the headline story on NBC was “Children For ...
Thesis Statement: Volunteering in your local community will help those around you and help you feel like you have contributed something positive and it is easier than most people think.
A progressive approach to education in which students are valued is the most important foundation upon which a new system of public education must be built. Children should be encouraged to become self-motivated and flexible, while instilling a love of learning. Real world life and career skills must be taught at an early age and nurtured throughout development. Children should be given the freedom and resources to develop their skills and interests on their own. The goal of education must always be the well-being of the whole child, and the effects that those children will have on the future of society. With cooperation and an open-mind to new, progressive approaches, the world of tomorrow can be improved beyond anyone's greatest dreams.
Without their help, one man cannot succeed. Throughout expression of these proverbs and folk songs that I recognize there is a huge gap between teachers and student connection due to the biggest consequence of Confucius ideology in human Vietnamese’s conception. Ideologies are closely linked to power because the nature of ideological assumptions is embedded in particular conventions and depend on the power relations which inspire the convention (Fairclough, 2001). Actually, being dominated for a thousand years by China, Vietnamese greatly affects in culture, politics, language, so on and so forth. The Confucian ideology influences on education has been quite remained and made their connection tend to be partly the relation of the controller and recipient up to now. According to Phuoc (1995), "the Confucian model is teacher-centered, closed, suspicious of creativity, and predicated on an unquestioning obedience from the students", it is teacher centered method which is traditional teaching styles. Applying this method make students feel scared to mention new situations with no clear norms, satisfied with providing answers of their teachers. Therefore, they often regard teachers as knowledge transmitters, and of course, who standing in higher social status; otherwise teachers find it is not easy to make friend with
If we consider first the social impacts that volunteer tourism can have on the children of destinations and the host community. We already looked at the problem of people coming and going and the effect that it can have on the children, and how the people in the community can become too dependent on volunteers and not necessarily learn the skills to further develop their community. There are certain steps that can be taken to improve the impact that volunteer tourists have and make it more sustainable. One way that these volunteers can positively contribute to the social aspect, is by spending time with the local people and teach them skills that they can use to survive and make a living. The people who run the orphanages can limit the amount of people coming and going, and only allow people who are planning to stay for a substantial amount of time to volunteer, thereby limiting the constant disruption of the children’s lives. To make the environmental impact that the volunteer tourists create more sustainable, it would be better to let the tourists spend money in the town helping out the economy and growing the small businesses, as well as helping build infrastructure free of charge. There would also be the fact that the tourists should be more aware and careful of the impact they have on the local environment. They should come to volunteer and not expect to have the same accommodations that they have at their home, they should live in the local community and partake in the local events and ways of living, by eating the same food and not wasting the communities’ recourses on extravagant luxuries. “To boost tourism huge money is invested to preserve the local heritage, to improve infrastructure, to provide better local facilities which in turn creates better education, better leisure
Volunteering enables an individual to make a positive impact on his or her community, while empowering the individual to better his or her life. This summer, I had the opportunity to volunteer at many diverse locations. From the hospital to the local library, I truly value my experience and treasure everything it has thought me. Volunteering lets us experience and learn things that we otherwise would not have learned; volunteering opens doors for us that we may not have been able to open before. Volunteering provides us with guidance and tolerance which we may use in the future to aid us in our decisions. At first glance, volunteering may seem to only benefit those who are helped, but on a deeper level, one can realize that volunteering benefits the volunteer as much as, if not more than, those who are helped. Not only does volunteering make a difference in one’s community, but it also helps the volunteer become a smarter, happier, friendlier and more caring individual.
Teachers have the most demanding and significant job on the planet: to equip the next generation with the information and lessons they need to lead our world into future success. It is foolish to believe that all students will be able to retain and apply everything they learn in the classroom. Our problem is solved by using the world we live in to teach lessons through application. These types of “lessons” can be taught to any age group and are most commonly referred to as field trips.
In the class I observed, I found my notion of freedom, a key to embrace learning, was confirmed. More interestingly, there were plenty of ways for the pursuit of freedom. When I observed Chinese class, I saw the classroom had blue wall which differs from the yellow chairs in other class and evoked tranquility, freedom and esteem. To my surprise, the placing of tables and chairs was very special. Four tables, on either side of the classroom, formed a long table. In the middle, each of the four tables was perpendicular to the long tables. And three black boards were on the three sides of this classroom. Every student enjoyed this open environment and lived in this environment for a long time.
Many years of war have had a major impact on the educational system of Cambodia. During the Khmer Rouge regime, teachers and all other educated people were killed, schools were destroyed and books were burned. This has resulted in countless of obstacles to the point where it challenges Cambodia’s aptitude to provide quality education access to the youth. Lack of schools exceptionally in slum areas like Phnom Penh has a high number of young children with little to no access to basic education. For these young children a lack of education can mean a life of poverty, limited opportunities, and poor health. In these slum areas poverty forces these kids to drop out of school to support their families. Many families can’t afford the cost of transporting their kids to school so instead of having their children to pursue an education they have them working for low wages. To offset these inequalities in Phnom Penh the Attitude Centre for Education (ACE) NGO is working to implement free education programs for the youth. The primary focus of ACE is to provide the youth with the confidence and leadership skills to bring about positive change in Cambodia. ACE works to create a generation of leaders and supports the youth to becoming effective role models in their communities.
Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” The importance of an education is repeatedly shown through past and present events. Those who can’t afford an education do whatever it takes to try and learn. They know that it will lead to a better future for them. An education will not only lead to a job with more money, but it will also expand people’s minds. They will be able to create new ideas and inventions. The best way for us to change the world is through educating our youth. With a better education, they can become inspired to invent new things. Some could grow up to find cures to diseases. Educating the youth is the key to changing the world. The children of today are the leaders of tomorrow. The best way for us to give a good education to our youth is by refining our school system. We need to redefine the term ‘education.’ Teachers in classrooms change the world because they are teaching the future generation that will one day lead. If we want to change the world for the better, educating the youth is th...
A human doesn’t achieve anything without learning. Being born in a refugee camp in an underdeveloped country like Nepal, I wouldn’t be doing my best if I wouldn’t have learned about learning. My idea on learning has helped me in various aspects on changing my life. Despite of challenges and daily struggles, I have an enthusiastic soul which wants to learn. With the will of learning and get education, I regularly attended my primary and secondary schools while I was in Bhutanese refugee camp. Along with the idea to learn and be educated, I passed my every school year with distinction grades.