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Charity Excursion
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As a non-profit organization, Lotus sponsors and organizes a number of volunteer
activities. These activities can help our international students to know different
life and people, and have an opportunity to do volunteer work in China. We hope that through theses activities, students will be able to offer help to the needy,
understand different cultures, and build friendship across ethnic, national and
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Charity Excursion to Rural Senior Centers
Each semester we organize charity excursions to senior centers. The aim of these excursions is to help students feel the life in
other communities of China and learn "filial piety" 孝道,to be dutiful
to one's parents and treat other elderly people with respect as if they were one's
own parents—a very important part of traditional Chinese culture.
2007 2006
Brent
Smith from USA performing yoga with his host family for seniors at Beijing
YiXing Senior Center. Brent is Managing Director of Developing Bank of Singapore; both he and his son joined Lotus summer program in 2007
Adrian
LeCesne singing American songs for seniors with great emotion. Adrian is studying
at Yale University. He joined Lotus 12 weeks Fall Program in 2006 and Homestay Only
in summer 2007.
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Dragon Festival Rice-dumpling Charity Sale
 Chinese traditional festival: Dragon Boat Festival is coming is a significant holiday
celebrated in China, and eating rice dumplings on that day is a traditional custom.
The largest Chinese global charity organization TZU CHI Foundation organized a rice
dumpling charity sale from May 24-May31,2007. TZU CHI Foundation planned to make
and sell 20,000 rice dumplings and the entire fund raising is to help the schooling
of poor students in rural areas. In this activity, Lotus students and host families actively took part in. they learned how to make Chinese traditional food ¨rice dumpling
(Zong Zi), enjoyed the atmosphere of the Dragon Boat Festival and did their bit
in helping the schooling of poor children.
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Rice Cake Charity Sale For GanSu Water Cellar
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students, host families and Beijing staff take part in a rice cake charity sale
on Jan 5th, which is organized by Tzu Chi foundation. The entire fund rising is
to help the Tzu Chi water cellars project in GanSu province, west China.
In GanSu
rainfall is less than 200 millimeters a year. Villagers have to walk 3 hours every
day to get the water back. This small pond is the only water resource for hundreds
of home.
Villagers can barely get by using storage pits to collect rainwater.
To provide clean drinking water for people living in GanSu, the Tzu Chi Foundation
has built over 10,000 water cellars since 1997. This December, Tzu Chi volunteers
gathered in Jingyuan County of GanSu to celebrate the official opening of 2,890
water cellars. With the completion of the second phase, the third phase has been
contracted to begin next spring in Jingyuan County.
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