Shanghai Roots and Buds My Child Tree Project

The buttonwood project, the original "Anhui Poverty Alleviation Project", began in 2005, mainly to help primary schools in poor mountainous areas improve their teaching quality and teaching environment through summer education and material assistance. Every summer, volunteers from Shanghai Roots and Shoots come to Yangshan Village in Dabie Mountain Area of Anhui Province to carry out colorful summer activities for the students of Yangshan Village Primary School, including distributing materials, teaching environmental protection courses, and conducting rural research. Volunteers share lesson plans with teachers in Yangshan Village, and instruct students to pass on what they have learned in class to their families. Since the beginning of the project, we have invested in rebuilding a new teaching building for Shan Yang Primary School, building a playground, a toilet and a reading room for the school, and adding refrigerators and water purification equipment for the school to ensure children's food safety. We distributed school uniforms, lunch boxes and a large number of books and school supplies to each child.

Our children's tree project has a theme every year, and the theme of 20 1 1 is environmental education and personal hygiene education. We sent nearly 30 Chinese and foreign volunteers, bumping all the way to the mountains. Although the conditions were very difficult, the volunteers found themselves in it. Their daily work schedule is full, cooking, teaching, home visits and gardening. In just a few days, the volunteers gained a lot and established deep feelings with the children in Yangshan Village.

Project impact

From 2005 to 20 1 1 year, * * * a total of 140 high school students and college students participated in the project. More than 200 students from poor families benefited from the project.

This year, 76 students from Yangshan village primary school participated in the summer school organized by my children's tree project.

Twenty-nine volunteers participated in the project, including 18 root bud volunteers, 4 students of international education exchange association, 2 teachers of international education exchange association and 5 root bud employees. (International Education Exchange Association is the initiator of the 20 1 1 buttonwood project. )

All volunteers spent a total of 3,680 hours in volunteer work over 65,438+00 days, teaching 34 classes, including English, environmental education, art and physical education. Volunteers investigated the hygiene and health status of 64 students in Yangshan Village Primary School and visited 29 families.

The materials donated to Yangshan Village Primary School this year include: a set of water purification facilities (provided by 3M Company), a refrigerator, sanitary bags 100, 95 sets of school uniforms and sports shoes, and 95 sets of stainless steel lunch boxes.

Volunteers build green garden walls and rainwater collection devices for the school. The green garden wall is made of discarded plastic bottles and hung on the wall for students to grow flowers and spices. The rainwater collection device is a row of pipes arranged under the eaves of school buildings. The pipes introduce rainwater into pond culture and water the green walls.