Jiangxi Team

Summary

Location: Jiangxi Province, Lichuan

Host(s): Tu Xiaohua

Local Contact(s): Tu Jiong

Major Beneficiaries: Lichuan Community

In October, 2004, Dream Corps helped the Lichuan County community to open a community library targeted at youths and children. Currently, the community library contains 1412 books and is located in a store space of 52 square meters. The library is running strong with an average of 8 visitors a day, opening 32 hours a week.

Dream Corps sends a team of volunteer to help the library to expand and gain more local support through media publicity and fund-raising from local businesses.

Library Project

Collect statistics regarding the operation and management of the community library that was built with help from Dream Corps last year.

Research on the cause of the decline of the local government-run cultural center and how a grass-root community library might avoid similar problems.

Assist the local library to expand through book donation, on-line publicity, community publicity, and fund-raising events from local businesses.

Education Assistance

Understand the Community

Daily Life

All five team members lives in the houses of villagers. Breakfast and dinner provided at the house and lunch provided at local eateries.

Team Members

Haiyang, Wang (Univeristy of Jinan)
Clifford, Emmanuel (Harvard University)
Shianling, Keng (Duke University)
Yuetan, Shi
Jingyuan, Tan (University of Toronto)

Team Photo Collection