Weekend Activities in Qingpu

Our Qingpu community centre welcomes migrant children from the neighborhood to come to spend time with other children. Lendlease has generously helped renovating the areas so that even when it rains, the children can still play table tennis or fushball or happily ride on the tricycles donated by APM in the courtyard. Every Saturday morning, we have a group of students from SCIS coming to our Qingpu centre to teach the migrant children dancing and cartoon drawing. In the afternoon, we have a twelve year old boy, Kaiser Ke, who has been helping Josephine to teach English with songs and drawings. In another room, Peiqing patiently explains about cutting arts and scratching arts to the students and they enjoy very much her teaching. Other volunteers like Chen Chongyan, Yang Qiuqian, Ken & Lucy will come whenever they have time, to read books with the children, play with them with board games and most importantly, to talk and listen to them. On Sunday afternoons, we have students from Shanghai Theatre Academy led by prof. Shen who come to teach them drama. A bread owner who is also from other province offers to give us a big box of bread to distribute to the children and they were delighted to taste different kinds of pizza bread, sausage roll, donut, minced pork bun etc. Occasionally, other charity organization will come with a program of activities with prizes and spend a quality afternoon with the children, whom normally do not want to go home when time is up as there is no one home to care for them most of the time.