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Program Essentials in Volunteer and Culture Camp
Community Services and Volunteer Works
The SOS Children's Village and Sun Village are both non-governmental organizations to provide family cares to Children who had lost their parents or had unfortunate family experiences. Our volunteers' works are to provide some hands to them. While staying in the Villages, you will know the stories behind the children, and find that although had earlier unfortunate experiences and are still missing their parents from time to time, the children had all become very independent with positive attitude and love their new homes and moms. A volunteer will get officially certificate of 50 hours community service credits upon completion of volunteer works.
SOS Children's Village
SOS Children's Village is a world famous non-profit, non-governmental, independent, world-wide organization, founded by Hermann Gmeiner in Imst, Austria in 1949. The organization is active in 132 countries and territories worldwide focuses on abandoned, destitute and orphaned children requiring family-based child care.
Typically, a SOS family consists of a SOS mom and 6 to 8 girls and boys of different ages living together as brothers and sisters. A SOS mother's job is to fulfill a mother's job responsibilities including household works, children's daily life arrangement (food, clothing, daily routines etc.), children education, etc., to have those orphaned children growing up happily and healthily with maternal love.
A volunteer's work is to help and teach English to children in SOS village, help SOS mom with housework, organize recreational and sports activities for the children etc. The work will be completed jointly with local Chinese student volunteers from universities or high schools.
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Sun Village
Sun Village is a non-governmental charitable organization, founded by Shuqin Zhang, a Class One supervisor within the Chinese prison system, and a journalist focusing on prison related issues. The Sun Village has been dedicated to providing foster care and education for the children of convicts to bring these minors together in a stable and warm family and enables them to grow-up happily and healthily, just as other children would. Over the last decade, Sun Village has provided valuable assistance for more than 800 of these children. Currently, 200 children reside at Children's Villages in Beijing, Xi'an, Xinxiang and Long County.
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There are over 100 Children in Sun Village Beijing who are living in 9 houses with colorful painting on the walls, with grapes, cucurbits in the yards. Sun Village also has rent farms, planting 50 thousand dates trees and 4 thousand peach trees etc. The children and staffs get up at 5am every morning and work until the time for school on the farms, the harvest from where contributes to part of their living expenses. The children are also supporting themselves through sellings of children-made embroideries and paintings. Although had earlier unfortunate experiences and still missing their parents from time to time, these children had all become very independent and love their new family in Village. |
A volunteer's works include English teaching to children in SOS village, organization of recreational and sports activities for the children, giving hands to staffs, farm work in the orchards etc. The work will be completed jointly with local Chinese student volunteers from university or high schools.
Study Chinese Language
To have participants well-prepared for volunteer works and maximize their value of China experience, before the volunteer work starts, the program offers 15 hours of Chinese language classes, taught by experienced instructors for Teaching Chinese as a Second Language from University.
- The classes are divided into 3 levels for students with different background: Beginner on pronunciation, basic Chinese characters and dialogues, survival Chinese; Intermediate on listening, speaking, reading skills; Advanced with more focus on writing skills, vocabulary, deeper understanding of Chinese culture.
- Each student is assigned a Chinese buddy for 1-on-1 Mandarin practice and also joins in colorful activities with these Chinese students from Beijing BDA Experimental School (the Camp Site) to get immersed into and understand Chinese culture.
- Interesting class field trips are arranged to places as restaurants; market etc. for students to use their learned language skills outside of the classroom into real-life language practices.
Learn Chinese Traditional Arts
Our professionals and artists will also teach several skills of Chinese traditional arts classes taught to provide the youth a first-hand experience in Chinese culture and traditional arts.
Earn Knowledge about China
LoongBridge creates participatns rich opportunities and activities to acquire in-depth knowledge about the past history and today's challenges of China, understand the livings of Chinese in different ages and family background, and develop their own insights about China that might impact their future.
Where You Go |
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| Capital Museum |
Rich history of Beijing and China including ancient relic, traditional folk art, fine artistic collection, historical sites etc. |
| Urban Planning Museum |
Rapid development of China and how large Beijing is from the huge but very detailed models of a whole Beijing city |
| City walks including Olympic Village |
Beijing's Modern look and its rapid development |
| 798 Art Zone |
See Chinese contemprary arts and talk to artists |
| Beijing Hutong Walk |
Learn classical architectural design and lifestyle in Beijing |
| Panjiayuan Flea Market |
Learn shopping styles of Chinese, practice bagain skills for Chinese artistic crafts and souvenirs |
| Wangfujing Night Market |
Undestand food culture and night life of Chinese |
| Home Visit of a Chinese Language Buddy |
Know a student's life is in China and look inside a Beijinger's modern family home |
| Dinner with Beijing Residence in Hutong |
Look inside a traditional Beijinger's home and hear their stories |
| Local Park Visit in the Morning |
Talk to seniors about their lives after retirement |
| Activities with Chinese Students |
Know the similarities and differences between Chinese young students and you |
| Peking Opera, Tea Art Performance etc. |
appreciate and watch essense of Chinese traditional arts in real |
| Explorations and Tours inside Beijing, Xi'an, Luoyang and Zhengzhou |
History, traditional arts and architectural design of ancient capitals of China |
Sight-Seeings
The program offers a series of culture-enhancement tours to famous sites in ancient, Beijing, Xi'an, Luoyang, Zhengzhou to provide students better understanding of Chinese history and culture.
Beijing, Capital of China, is economic and cultural center in China and the world. With over 14 million people, it has thousand years of history and served as Capital of China for 800 years since Yuan Dynasties in 1206 D.C. |
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- The Great Wall
- Forbidden City
- Summer Palace
- Drum Tower
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- Tian'anmen
- Beijing Hutong
- Laoshe Teahouse
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Xi'an, famous for the Terracotta Warriors, was first founded as Capital by Qin Shi Huang, first Emperor who united China in Qin Dynasty, and has been functioning as capital of China for 11 dynasties since the 11th century BC. |
- Terracotta Warriors and Horses
- Ming Dynasty City Wall
- Shaanxi Historical Museum
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- Big Wild Goose Pagoda Square
- Drum and Bell Towers with drum and bell shows
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LuoYang, first became the capital of the Zhou Dynasty in 770 BC., was original city was constructed by the Duke of Zhou in the 11th century BC. It also serves as capitals in Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties. In A.D. 493, the Northern Wei Dynasty also moved its capital to Luoyang and started the construction of the rock-cut Longmen Grottoes. |
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ShaoLin Monastery in Zhengzhou, a Buddhist temple in Henan Province. The monastery was built by the Emperor Hsiao-Wen in AD 496, and the first abbot of Shaolin was Batuo, an Indian dhyana master who came to China in AD 464 to spread Buddhist teachings. Long famous for its association with Chinese martial arts, it is the Mahayana Buddhist monastery perhaps best known to the Western world. |
- Shaolin Monastery
- Tower Forest
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