Volunteer in China
As a non-profit organization, Lotus sponsors and organizes a number of volunteering
activities. Through these activities, we wish to help our international students
get to know different life and people in China, and have an opportunity to do volunteer
work and offer help to the needy. We also hope that students will avail this opportunity
to understand different cultures and build friendship across ethnic, national and
cultural differences.
Charity Excursion to rural Senior Centers
Each semester we organize charity excursions to senior centers in rural areas around
Beijing. The aim of these excursions is to help students feel the life in other
communities of China and learn “filial piety” 孝道 (xiào dào), 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.
US student Adrian talking with a senior, 2007
Teaching at Tibetan Orphan School
Xieqing Charity Orphan School is a non-governmental organization. The school is
located on a beautiful grassland at the foot of snow-capped mountains in Ganzi Tibetan
Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province, southwest China. As a sponsor of the
orphan school, Lotus hopes to provide the orphans an opportunity to know the outside
world and learn knowledge and skills which will be helpful to them and gradually
the local communities. We also hope to provide international volunteers a chance
to offer help in a Tibetan school, and know a different life and culture.
US volunteer Tom with the children when teaching
as a volunteer in summer, 2007
in the school.
|