Understand the Community

The volunteers conduct home visits, interview school teachers, parents and potential recipients themselves to choose the final recipients. Volunteers will also try to establish personal relations with the supported students and supply sustained encouragement and mentorship to the local students.

Summary

Seedling Fund is a Dream Corps-sponsored scholarship that supports students who are financially poor but academically motivated from volunteer sites in China.

Dream Corps allocates a certain amount of funds to each volunteer team to be distributed at the sites. The size of the fund and the number of students supported depends on funding available and local conditions.

Unlike Hope Projects, the fund is administrated by volunteer teams working at the local sites.

Understand the Community

Assess the feasibility of community space based on school library through community survey, related government policy analysis, and local socio-economical needs.

Understand the Community

Seedling Fellowship Project

To introduce seedling fund project as a project to assist needy students in the township of Tucheng
To identify and collect information of students who need tuition fellowship through student, teacher, and family interviews
To establish local monitoring units to ensure proper spending of assistantship fund and on-going communication

Facts at a Glance:

There are approximately 212 million people in China living on $1 or less a day. For children from those families, most of whom reside in the rural areas, having a book to read may just be a dream.

The life of children in rural China features "no books" and "no reading". Poverty and inaccessibility to books combined with an environment discouraging intellectual reading have led to the absence of reading in rural children's lives. Lack of reading has seriously constrained the children's imagination, academic performances and life perspectives.

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