Digital Skills for Disadvantaged Children in China

As was the case in 2020 and 2021, our flexibility and resilience were put to the test during the first six months of 2022. We are very proud to say that our team more than rose to the challenge. Despite facing lockdowns and school closure in Shanghai and many parts of China due to surging COVID-19 cases, we have carried on with our efforts to provide educational services to our beneficiaries by improving our online processes, transferring our offline programs to online mode, opening new online programs, and recruiting volunteers from different backgrounds.

In the first six months of 2022, more than 100 volunteers and trainers joined forces to deliver an impressive total of 552 digital literacy lessons (almost all of them online) to 427 disadvantaged students. New lessons in coding were also added to our curriculum to enhance our students’ knowledge and learning experience during these difficult and exceptional times.

As the summer has started, we are very excited to have resumed some of our offline programs in Shanghai, while continuing to provide engaging online lessons. We are currently delivering online or offline lessons to more than 200 students.

In addition to supporting us through funding or donation of equipment, many of our partners have also contributed to our program by encouraging their employees to volunteer with us. For example, PricewaterhouseCoopers have mobilized so far more than 50 employees to join our program in 2022. We are also especially grateful to the Transparent Fish Fund and the Chao Foundation for their continued support since 2016.

Thank you all for your support!

Links:

• Read more about our programs on our website