Eligibility: students 14+ years old. Parents can also join to accompany a student.

Description: The 3-week program combines Volunteer work, Study, Travel, Experiences and Challenges altogether to provide maximum learning experience for our participants. The participants will provide one-week community services in SOS Children's Village and in Sun Village.

The SOS Children's Village and Sun Village are non-governmental charitable organizations for providing foster care and education for the children who had unfortunate family experiences. Although the villages are doing their best jobs to make the children growing up happily and healthily, there are limited hands due to financial difficulties. Our volunteers' works are to help and teach English to children, help house works, farm works, organize recreational and sports activities for the children etc., jointly with local Chinese student volunteers from universities or high schools. A volunteer will get official certificate of 50-hour community-service credits upon completion of his/her volunteer works.

Before the volunteer works, we will first get the participants acquainted with Chinese culture and environment. A participant will learn practical Chinese skills from classroom education and real life experiences of field-trips. Our traditional arts professionals will also teach students several skills of Chinese traditional arts including Chinese painting, Erhu, Martial Arts, Tie-Dye, and paper-cuttings. Student will get the chances talking to young students, senior people, shop owners, teachers, artists etc., visit homes of Beijingers, restaurants, school, park, market etc., and join recreational activities with local students, to find out the livings of Chinese in different ages and classes. From visits to history museums and in-depth explorations and tours in Beijing, students can learn the rich history of ancient China and understand modern China. Students will also appreciate traditional Chinese arts by watching shows as Peking Opera, Acrobatic shows, Tea-art Performance, etc. .

At the end of the program, participants will travel to other ancient capitals of China, Xi'an, Luoyang, and Zhengzhou for culture enhancement trips.