Afterschool Program at Beiyaowan

Since April 2012, You Dao has started to run the community centre at Beiyaowan, Baoshan district to provide a better place for the migrant children to do homework with assistance from volunteers. It opens Tuesdays to Fridays 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. There are about 20 children everyday, who come to the centre right after school. Students from Shanghai University come according to a roster system. Three to six in a group will arrive punctually every day to tutor the children with their homework. During the tuition period, the volunteers will be able to answer the questions of the children especially in English and Mathematics which helps a lot because the parents are not able to help. We have seen a great deal of improvement in every single child over the period, not just academically, but in their sitting posture and habits. Some of them have gotten rid of the habit of biting their pencil, or to scribbling on the text book. The children have become tidier, happier, more cheerful and are eager to question and learn.