English Education for Rural Children in China

In the first six months of 2024, our online interventions have remained one of our main focuses, enabling us to provide English education to disadvantaged children from rural, remote, and deprived communities in 11 Chinese provinces: Shanghai, Ningxia, Henan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Fujian, Yunnan, Gansu, Anhui, Guangxi, and Shaanxi.

We are pleased to report that our School Videolink Program is currently running in 30 rural schools across China, reaching 1,906 students. At the same time, our Home Classroom Program – which consists of volunteers teaching online to 5-10 students located in their own homes – offers after-school classes to 580 students. In total, 2,486 under-served students joined one of our online English programs in 2024, and we recruited and trained 288 volunteers to deliver an impressive total of 1,464 online lessons so far.

Our curriculum continues to be centred around using fun and interactive activities, stories, picture books, and songs to provide students with the opportunity to practice vocabulary, sentences, and dialogues, thus fostering their enthusiasm and interest in speaking English.

None of this would be possible without the efforts and dedication of our volunteers, donors, and other supporters. Thank you all for your support!

Links:

• Read more about our programs on our website

As the Spring Festival approaches, we reflect on the past year — a journey marked by learning, collaboration, success, and a sharp rebound in our activities. We want to take a moment to celebrate the milestones that we achieved in 2023.

In 2023, our online English teaching program experienced a significant increase in volunteer and student enrollment, reaching rural and under-served children in Guangdong, Ningxia, Jiangxi, Henan, Fujian, Yunnan, Guangxi, and Anhui provinces.Throughout the year, more than 400 volunteers and teachers delivered an impressive total of 4,709 online English lessons to 4,897 under-served students. Compared with 2022, we are pleased to report that we have increased by 49.5% our number of beneficiaries, thus enabling more students to acquire knowledge and make progress in their language skills.

Our curriculum is centered around using interactive activities, stories, picture books, and songs to provide students with the opportunity to practice vocabulary, sentences, and dialogues. Many learning games are incorporated into each class to make the students’ language learning more colorful, and so they can more confidently use English to express themselves. Phonics learning materials are also used by many volunteers to help students improve their oral English.

In these unprecedented times, we especially want to thank all of you, our volunteers, donors, and other supporters. We need your support more than ever to keep our programs running sustainably in 2024. We sincerely thank all of you, and wish everyone good health, good luck, and much happiness! We look forward to working with you in the Year of the Dragon!

Links:

• Read more about our programs on our website