Once a week during July and August, teachers and student volunteers from the British English Consulting Company, organized special English classes for the migrant children located at the You Dao Qing Pu Children’s Center.

Every Wednesday, the BE’s activity coordinator sent a teaching plan for the week to the coordinator for You Dao. They then thoroughly discussed the plan to make sure it was best for the children.
The activities have been held on Saturday or Sunday mornings. BE’s volunteers tried their best to design themes and activities that were suitable for the children and related to their daily life, with such topics as as weather, transportation, food, and occupation.
Since late July, many children have returned to their hometown to either visit family or get ready to go back to school, so therefore fewer migrant children were able to attend the classes Only eight children attended class several times, but the six teacher volunteers who traveled from far away to get to Qingpu never did mind. The teachers worked with their usual high level of enthusiasm, they were happy just as long as they could be with the kids and taught them something useful.
Every class included a painting, color filling, and games. During each lesson the teachers taught the children some new words and then helped the children memorize the words by using the words in interesting games and while creating artwork. During the break, the volunteer teachers took the children to play outside. Some of them played basketball, some skipped rope, and some played badminton. Everyone had a great time.
Once, Frances, the volunteer leader brought the children a birthday cake to celebrate for those kids had their birthday in July. All participants sent their best wishes to the birthday kids and enjoyed the beautiful and tasty cake together. The children were all very surprised and happy.
Mr. Mike, the general manager of Ingredion Company came several times to support the classes as a volunteer; he helped with cleaning up the classrooms and playing with the kids. We thank him greatly for his kindness and thoughtful support.
We would like to specially thank the teachers and students volunteers coming from the British English Consulting Company. We hope that these student volunteers gained a lot of skills and enjoyment from the activities.

On the morning of June 27th 2015, despite a massive rainstorm, five volunteers from LIXIL traveled to the You Dao Foundation Qingpu Center to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival with migrant children and their parents.
The five volunteers sat at the same table with parents and 23 children to get to know each other better. In the beginning, Youdao Foundation teachers taught the children to know the history and culture of Dragon Boat Festival with an interesting quiz. Kids were excited about the game and answered the questions with passion. The ice-breaking part of the activity went well.
The teachers and volunteers then showed the children how to make dumpling. With the help of the patient volunteers, the children learned to quickly make dumplings and even hosted a little dumpling making competition. One hour later, everyone was able to make beautiful dumplings.
After making the dumpling, all of the children and volunteers shared dumplings together, tea, and fruit. Afterwards they played an idiom game. Finally, the children at the Qingpu Center danced “Bunny” and “A thankful heart” dance to show their appreciation for the volunteers and the wonderful time they had.
The chairman of Youdao Foundation Mr. Compton also attended the event. In the end the volunteers said that they would support Youdao Foundation more after the event, and they are willing to spend more time with the migrant children in the future.
Special thanks to the big support and love sponsor of LIXIL.

The afternoon of March 14 was cold and rainy, but there was a very warm atmosphere flying around the big classroom at the Aider migrant kindergarten, which is located in Qingpu Baihe Town. More than 35 migrant children and most of their mothers and grandmothers and also a few dads, gathered there, waiting for a foreign English teaching volunteers association's arrival. Some of them came to the kindergarten at 2pm, even though some of the parents are very busy they still take the time to send their children to school, and then go home to take care of other children or continue to work. In order to support this first English teaching activity, the school principals and teachers volunteered to work overtime to take care of the children and parents.
At 3:15pm, Shanghai’s Italy women's community volunteer adults and children people came to the kindergarten to run the activity. Although it was raining and they were not familiar with the route, they still tried to arrive on time. They brought with them their personally designed English lessons, teaching materials, and handmade exquisite Italian cake. Once they entered into the classroom, the kids, their parents and teachers welcomed them with applause.
The volunteers them in English and the kids were cheered up by the volunteers’ enthusiasm. The volunteers taught the group numbers, songs in English, they also played a color filling game with the kids to strengthen their knowledge of English numbers. Not only did the children and their parents learn something new, but even the teachers were all attracted by the fresh and amusing way of learning and actively participated. One of the teachers was very excited and interacted with the volunteers happily.
All the participants were enjoying the fabulous handmade Italian cake.
The leading volunteer Ms. Simona’s little daughter was so cute and spoke good Chinese. Many of the kindergarten’s teachers played with her and found a lovely year of Goat toy for her to play with. The considerate volunteers’ also prepared little bags of stationary gifts for the migrant children. They looked forward to come back again in April. All participants had great fun during the Saturday afternoon activities.