workcamps in china

We offer variety of cultral exchange projects in Hong Kong as well as in the mainland China. The voluntary projects open for local participants ....

Long Term Project

Global Education Project

During the year 2012-13, “Myself Our World”: Global Education project implemented in Hong Kong. Global Education provides a broader perspective for young people to think globally and explore the world. It is an essential part of this project to include international participants in every activity allowing students to interact with persons from different countries, discuss matters related them and to the world, explore and experience different cultures. The project also aims to positively impact young people to improve their Leadership Qualities, Language Skills, Creativity and Life Enrichment.

2013-14 Mapping Our World project was linked to Other Learning Experience (OLE) Curriculum as it contains community service, leadership training and capacity building training activities to improve creativity among young people while learning about the world. It also directly linked to the English Language Learning as all the training programs were conducted in English by international trainers.

Our Colorful World 2014-15 project aimed at cultural exposure and focused on issues related to discrimination and stereotyping based on race, nationality or religion. It also focused on leadership, creativity, positive live experience and global citizenship.

We continue to implement the Global Education project every year with selected schools who have been joining this project for many years. The students look forward to the activities and the project has evolved into a cohesive and participatory project. Every year 100 - 150 studetns directly get involved in the activities and more than 1000 students engage indirectly in the Human Library program.

My Self Our World: Global Education Initiative 2012-2013

• Fanling Governmnet Secondary School
• Liu Po Shan Memorial College
• CHUK Thomas Cheung Secondary School
• Po Leung Kuk Wai Yin College
• State of Mind Institute

Mapping Our World: Global Education Initiative 2013-2014

• Fanling Governmnet Secondary School
• Liu Po Shan Memorial College
• CHUK Thomas Cheung Secondary School
• Good Hope School (Secondary)
• Shau Kei Wan Governmnet Secondary School
• CCC Hoh Fuk Tong College
• CCC Mong Man Wai College
• Hoi Pa Street Government Primary School

Our Colorful World: Global Education Initiative 2014-2015

• Fanling Governmnet Secondary School
• Thomas Cheung Secondary School
• Good Hope School (Secondary)
• Shau Kei Wan Governmnet Secondary School
• CCC Mong Man Wai College
• Hoi Pa Street Government Primary School

Me, Nature and the World: Global Education Initiative 2015-2016

• Fanling Governmnet Secondary School
• Thomas Cheung Secondary School
• Good Hope School (Secondary)
• Shau Kei Wan Governmnet Secondary School
• CCC Mong Man Wai College
• Hoi Pa Street Government Primary School
• Lock Tao Secondary School
• SC Gaw Memorial College

Be the Change: Global Education Initiative 2016-2017

• Fanling Governmnet Secondary School
• Good Hope School (Secondary)
• Shau Kei Wan Governmnet Secondary School
• CCC Mong Man Wai College
• Hoi Pa Street Government Primary School

Be Inspired: Global Education Initiative 2017-2018

• Fanling Governmnet Secondary School
• Good Hope School (Secondary)
• Shau Kei Wan Governmnet Secondary School
• CCC Mong Man Wai College
• Hoi Pa Street Government Primary School
• Lock Tao Secondary School

To Inspire and To be Inspired 2018 - 2019

• Fanling Governmnet Secondary School
• Lock Tao Secondary School
• Good Hope School (Secondary)
• Shau Kei Wan Governmnet Secondary School
• CCC Mong Man Wai College
• Heung Yee Kuk Tai Po District Secondaroy School

Together We Serve 2019 - 2020

• Fanling Governmnet Secondary School
• Good Hope School (Secondary)
• Shau Kei Wan Governmnet Secondary School
• CCC Mong Man Wai College
• Hoi Pa Street Government Primary School
• King's College
• Heung Yee Kuk Tai Po District Secondaroy School

Project Activities

1. Youth Leadership Training

This is a day program carried out by qualified trainers (international) along with a group of young facilitators. Each participating school selected 20 – 40 students for this training program. The training is held at individual schools. Students engage in various team-building games and learned about different leadership styles. They also get the opportunity to discuss a range of global issues and how they are related to our everyday life.

2. Capacity Building Seminar

The seminar aimed to empower youth capacity in creativity, social cohesion, leadership and provide them a vision for the future. Participants get involved in designing a program in their school as the next step of the project. The program is a three-day-two-night residential training. Non-formal education methods are used and activities in these workshops included story drawings, invisible theatre, time charts, peer interviews, memory maps, mask making, hand prints, group writing and individual self portraits.

3 International Global Education Workcamp

This program is based on understanding our world better. Each participating school selected up to 10 students to participate in an international workcamp with 10 international participants. Discussion with international delegates can take place daily. Problem-trees, conflict-mapping and social analytical methods used to identify problems and needs of the communities. This encouraged students to be analytical global thinkers.

4. Human Library

“Human Library” a unique non-formal education which originated in Denmark in 2005. The idea is to use people as a book. International delegates from Europe and Asia and South America join as human books in this program.

The Human Library is an innovative method designed to promote dialogues, reduce prejudices and encourage understanding. It enables groups to break stereotypes by challenging the most common prejudices in a positive and humorous manner.

5. Exhibition and the Evaluation Conference

Exhibition and the Evaluaiton Conference creates the platform where young people could express themselves It increased their creativity and improved their confidence. Students get engaged in organizing this event. The conference is held at the end of the project to evaluate the success of the project.

Global Education Project is organized by Service Civil International Hong Kong branch. This project was sponsored by Home Affairs Bureau, Commission on Youth under the Large-Scale Youth Programme Funding Scheme 2012-13 and 2014-15

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Workcamp History in China

First SCI workcamp was held in Hong Kong in 2009