During 6th to 9th December 2011, the Child Centred Disaster Risk Reduction Training, which was jointly organised by Shaanxi Women’s Federation, the Women’s Federation of Langao County and Plan China, has been held in Xi’an Sport Hotel with a number of participants including Chen Xiaojiang, the head of International Liaison Department of Shaanxi Women’s Federation, staff members from the Women’s Federation of Langao County and the Education Bureau of Langao County together with the headmasters and Physical Education teachers from ten local schools. Through this training, participants’ awareness on disaster and risk reduction has been greatly promoted via participatory analysis on the vulnerability of actual environment; meanwhile their ability to help students better prepared for natural disaster has also been improved through various approaches such as games, role play as well as activities to find out the gaps in disaster preparedness process and so on. On the last day of the training, an expert experienced in first-aid training from the Training Centre of Red Cross Society of China was invited to deliver basic knowledge and skills on first aid to all participants. |
 Plan China has dispatched 1,300 survival kits to boys and girls in flood-ravaged Shaanxi, a main province in China’s middle and southwestern regions submerged by heavy rainstorms and hit by landslides, which have affected over 900,000 people and damaged more than 1,200 schools. |
From July 25th to August 1st in 2011, Plan China Community Child Center Programme, assisted by Shaanxi Women’s Federation and Red Phoenix Project, conducted a one-week volunteer teaching service to enrich the summer vocation of school-age children in Shaanxi rural areas as well as to promote their knowledge of the outside world through communicating with university volunteers. 46 university students have participated in this summer vocation volunteer activity as volunteer teachers in 14 Community Child Centers. |
In 2011, China Co-operative Times Agency, Rural Development Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Science, Financial Brand and Corporate Culture Institute of Central University of Finance and Economics jointly launched the activities of choosing China Rural Financial Brand Value List on Figure Award of Innovation, Institute Award of Innovation and Product Award of Innovation. This activity aims at improving the branding of rural financial institutes, promoting their product competiveness, as well as advancing the innovation and development of China rural finance. |
