China Connection Education Service (HongKong)

        In recent years, more and more people living in rural areas in China are migrating to major cities to work yet their children have been left behind in the rural villages. According to 5th China population census, total number of these "left-behind" children reached to 20 millions, and the number is growing continuously.
        Concerning about these "left behind" children, China Connection Education Service, Hunan Television, Hunan Province Woman Association and Hunan Television Program Company co-organized an English summer camp from 7 July to 1 August 2007 for these children.
        12 foreign teachers and 5 Chinese assistants from over the world including Hong Kong, USA, UK and Australia joined the program as volunteers. Around 400 students participated in the camp. Many of them have never seen the foreign faces before. At the beginning, they were afraid to look at the teachers yet after a few days we could see their behavior changed significantly. We could see a major progress of their English level and above all, they gained a lot of self-confidence. We believe this will make a long lasting positive impact on their life.

To create a good learning environment for the children in Luo Gan Town, Xing Ling City of Guangdong Province, China Connection Education Service and Xing Ling Government are working together to re-build the dilapidated and aged school in Luo Gan Town named Hong Qi Primary School. China Connection will donate 800,000 dollars in re-building all the facilities of the school, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2008. But building the facilities is only the first step. China Connection will also donate additional 200,000 dollars to set up an Education Foundation for the children of the school, and invest in people and time to assist in re-developing the curriculum for the school, hoping that the children in the school will receive the same quality of education as students in an affluent community.