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Refugees are not a threat, or a burden, but people like you and me

December 10th, 2010 by Veronika | Comments Off

“Refugees are not a threat, or a burden, but people like you and me” is an opening quote from the Migrant plan submitted by the YCIS Beijing, China.  In their plan the students focus on the refugees from Yemen, who lose many of their rights when displaced internally or migrated abroad. The students advocate that [...]


Migrants are like refugees, with an uncertain present and even more uncertain future.

December 10th, 2010 by Veronika | Comments Off

Team of students from YCIS Beijing, China went to visit the Inner Mongolia  Migrant School whilst on their “Experiencing China” trip (TGD service project). Before their visit, Jimmy Lee and Steven Chun planned and prepared various activities and assigned a team of students to lead them. These activities included dancing, drawing, singing group and sports [...]


Sale to raise money for webcams

December 10th, 2010 by Veronika | Comments Off

As we mentioned in the previous blog entries the team from YCIS Beijing, China has built a special relationship with Xian Hope school and are active developing it further. In November the students organized a two-day sale (TGD service project)  to raise money to buy electronic equipment such as webcams to enable them to do [...]


Hatim fled Eritrea – blog entry

December 10th, 2010 by Veronika | Comments Off

Nathalie YCIS Beijing, China felt bad about complaining that she is sick and tired, when she read about a story of Hatim,  a 16 years old boy from Eritrea who decided to flee his home to Sudan. She decided to write a TGD blog entry to  spread the story of Hatim, who with nothing but [...]


Coming back home

December 10th, 2010 by Veronika | Comments Off

In his blog entry “Coming back home” Steven a student from YCIS in Beijing, China describes the feelings, motivation to immigrate and return to Korea.  Here is an excerpt from this blog:
“ Miserable and exhausted, most of the individual investors and entrepreneurs who migrated to China in the past 20 years are returning back to [...]


Students from China teach English and donate materials to migrant students

December 2nd, 2010 by Veronika | Comments Off

Students from Yew Chung International School of Beijing (China) organize a wonderful TGD community project,  which focuses on building a partnership between their school and students from a school with predominantly migrant children who have moved to Beijing with their parents in the hope of finding work and a better life. Students organize a variety [...]