Project Description

Plan provides training for teachers on teaching arts, photography and theatre classes. We also provide the schools with teaching and sports equipment and facilities, based on the expressed needs of the students and teachers. Lastly, we use our experience in improving migrant children’s education to share with other migrant schools and advocate to policy makers.

Why are we doing it?

Every year more rural children move with their parents, who are in search of work, to China’s cities. In cities, migrant children often are unable to attend state funded schools and therefore attend private schools set up by NGOs. These schools are often poorly run and insufficiently resourced. The schools often offer a different curriculum than the state run schools in the city, which means that many of the children cannot gain entry into middle or high schools. Migrant children also have very limited opportunities to attend pre-school.

Project Activities

·         Teacher and volunteer training

·         Infrastructure enhancement

·         Improvement of the awareness of child’s rights

·         Sanitation knowledge training for children and parents and building of health and sanitation facilities

·         Introduction of creative extra-curricular activities such as arts, photography and sports

·         Pilot a kindergarten for 3 to 6-year-old migrant children

·         Create a learning network for migrant children

·         Advocate best practice to other schools and policy makers

·         Integration of information and communications technology into the classroom

Impact

At least 3,500 3 to 18-year-old migrant children will benefit from this project.

Partners

Our partners in this project are the Hilton in the Community Foundation, the Hilton Beijing and the Beijing Spiritual Home of Migrants.

Future of the Project

In the future the migrant schools will be community-learning centres and offer a wider range of services to the communities. At the same time, the experiences learned and methodology developed while working with the first 10 schools will be shared with other migrant schools in Beijing and other cities in China.