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Blog Topic #2: Clover Youth

12/1/2014

 
Clover Youth was initiated by the high school graduates, who are dedicated to create learning opportunities via practice and social environment led by youth peers, cultivating youth with love, ideas and action. It is located in Guangzhou city.

What does affect your long term development and sustainability?

As 2014 comes to a close, I would like to share the research project I conducted for my graduate program in the populous country of Yunnan. There, I am trying to coordinate the number of obstacles that Clover Youth, the public service organization that I am working for, will encounter during the project in Guangzhou. In the county, I will be educating the students of the low working class by teaching them how to read, while trying to promote students' interest in reading and electronic culture . Transparent Fish Fund’s November theme to share features the difficulties of public service, in addition to institutional sponsoring of the local organization. By holding several in-depth conversations, as a I look back on this experience as a young adult participating in public service, found that throughout this process of development, there are varying differences throughout the duration of this process. Additionally, by being a young person that participates in public service events as well as an active member of the Clover Youth organization, I witness various aspects of the developing process, but also the phenomenon of the social environment in Guangzhou.
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Clover Youth: Children’s Earnest

11/19/2014

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Clover Youth was initiated by the high school graduates, who are dedicated to create learning opportunities via practice and social environment led by youth peers, cultivating youth with love, ideas and action. It is located in Guangzhou city.

Summer camp of 2014 is coming. We will welcome children who are quite serious about the activity.

On the last weekend, I participated in voluntary teaching activity. Under the tree shade at the campus, I even sensed scorching sun light. In such a summer, I sensed something that more burning than the sun. The earnest of the children at Qiming and Chunhua Middle Schools impressed me a lot.

An almost-finished-pen, a piece of paper filled with notes and a wad of revised teaching plans are all earnest that I could sense. I tried my best to teach and tomorrow is another new start.  

Difficulties are not obstacles, which made me advance bravely. A person may grow up and take responsible. In the big family of Qingcao, each one holds one another and face unpredictable difficulties. In 6 years, Qingcao grows greener.

Original article written by Xiaoying Peng, translated by Maggie Li, edited by Yanyan Zhang

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Clover Youth: Career Workshops 

8/24/2014

 
Clover Youth was initiated by the high school graduates, who are dedicated to create learning opportunities via practice and social environment led by youth peers, cultivating youth with love, ideas and action. It is located in Guangzhou city.

"What do you think life is like as a chef?" A question posted to ChunHua school students by the host at the very beginning of the lecture. 

Following last week's Chef class sponsored by Green Grass Weekend Camp, a subsequent class on Chef’s Expertise started in the afternoon of the 25th  at ChunHua school. Comparing to the first class which focused on hands-on in cake baking, this second class focused on the expertise, knowledge relevant to a professional chef.   The goal is to increase students' interest and understanding of the profession of chef through these lessons and activities

"The chef is a cook!", said one of the girls telling us what is her idea of a chef like.  Most students consider chef is a hard working profession.  After introduction by high school teacher on chef’s basic situation, such as grade levels of chef, compensations, working condition and required quality, ethics, etc., students began to understand more about the profession of chef. The guest speaker presented a thought-provoking question to students : "Do you know why some chefs can command a higher salary such as eight or nine thousand Yuan per month, and some chefs can get only three or four thousand ?"

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Clover Youth: Market Survey 

8/5/2014

 
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Clover Youth was initiated by the high school graduates, who are dedicated to creating a more loving community through youth leadership. It is located in Guangzhou city.


On a sunny afternoon in May, students from Qincao Youth Service Center visited Sun Yat-sen University. For some students, it is their first time visiting a university. They were amazed by the environment of the campus and asked a ton of questions to the university students leading the tour. 

Our tour guides then led us in an activity they called, "Market Survey". We talked about their entrepreneurial inspirations and discussed some of our innovations. MinXian our facilitator for the activity, asked us a few questions: how would your products be accepted by the market? The maximum profit must be based on understanding the market and customers, so how does one understand the market and customers? During their thinking and discussion, Ming Xian raised the theme of the activity—market survey. With an easy but vivid way, he explained why and how we have to do market survey.  Each group launched debates and came up with outlines.

With the outlines, the next step was field survey. Within 50 minutes, each group tried their best to collect as much samples for the date as possible in the campus. At first, the junior students hesitated to speak to the strangers though they had rehearsed their parts. The staff and senior students tried hard to help them to stop the passers and interview them. They hope each child could participate in the survey, experience and grow in the process.

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Qingcao Youth Service Center: Trial Teaching in Qingcao Summer Camp

8/17/2013

 
Qingcao Youth Service Center was initiated by the high school graduates, who are dedicated to create learning opportunities via practice and social environment led by youth peers, cultivating youth with love, ideas and action. It is located in Guangzhou city.

To improve the teacher's effectiveness in the classroom, we organized voluntary teachers to prepare sample classes at Guangya Middle School on July 7th. Trial teaching is an important way to train volunteers. 

We believe this is a good opportunity to test volunteer teachers. Each teaching group did a lot of preparation. Some of the teachers did not perform very well due to a lack of experience, but we could see they all wanted to improve.  Compared with the first lesson they prepared, they improved a lot in terms of time and content. Their effectiveness became more obvious and their goals became clearer. The place we practiced was in a classroom.  Each team sat down in a circle. The teachers had different roles: lecturer or audience, and shared their opinions with the presenters.  There were members of Qingcao, curriculum advisers, researchers, etc at the site. They objectively assessed the lessons prepared by the volunteers. 


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Qingcao Youth Service Center: Service Learning in Asia 

7/1/2013

 
Qingcao Youth Service Center was initiated by the high school graduates, who are dedicated to create learning opportunities via practice and social environment led by youth peers, cultivating youth with love, ideas and action. It is located in Guangzhou city. 

Service learning has been developing for over 40 years in America, but it’s a new world for most Chinese educators. When I first heard about it, I thought it was definitely time to put social service into the framework of Chinese curriculum. Later, during a conference I attended in America in 2012, I realized that service learning covers many more things than I had previously thought. This 3-day workshop made me understand key factors such as youth voice, introspection, assessment, etc. I hope we could hold similar meeting in the future and create an opportunity for our partners to learn. 

In a forum in Qinhuangdao, I got to know Ma Xuejia, a PhD of Hong Kong Lingnan University. I learned from him that an Asia-Pacific conference on service learning will be held by Lingnan University and Sun Yat-Sen University in June in Hongkong. Considering the expensive cost of travel, I applied to attend the conference with support from our NGO partners in Guangzhou.    

After a discussion, they agreed to admit 10 persons from 10 NGOs to attend the conference without paying service fees, which encouraged us a lot.
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EV: Art Collaboration with the Clover Project

7/30/2012

 
This year, East Villagers gained a very unique partnership with the Clover Project. Together, they initiated an “art collaboration,” in which both the East Villagers US interns and the Chinese summer camp students explored a common theme through the medium of art. 

For our project, each of the EV interns created posters and pictures, representing our understanding of Christmas and how it is celebrated in America. We broke down the most important themes and traditions into four categories: Christmas decorations, folklore and myths, the Christmas Spirit, and the Nativity Story. Each piece included a visual, along with a brief background of the tradition: its history, importance, and relevance to how Americans celebrate Christmas. Made to be interactive, each one included suggestions for the students at the summer camp to create something tangible of their own in hopes of learning a little more about Christmas in the Western Culture.  
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Janna with her Christmas Spirit artwork
As we hoped, the students were interested in our project and were very responsive with their own creations. In response to our “decorations” activity, the students went above and beyond what we asked of them, creating not a shopping list, but the actual decorations! They first compared Christmas decorations with those of the Spring Festival (i.e. Chinese New Year) and later made their own Spring Festival decorations, such as Chinese couplets and paper cuts shaped as swans and lanterns. For our “folklore and myths” section, the students also made a visual, representing the background and history of Spring Festival. Lastly, the students depicted the Spring Festival Spirit by creating a shadow paper cut drawing to show how the Spring Festival originated and its developments since.
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After learning about Christmas decorations, the students unleashed their artistic talents in creating their own Spring Festival decorations.
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Students collaborate with one another to create their artworks!
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Visual representation of spring festival folklore and myths.
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A shadow paper cut drawing depicting how the Spring Festival developed and how they it is celebrated nowadays.
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We would like to thank the Clover Project for such a successful collaboration, especially with it being our first of the sort! We are ecstatic that the students enjoyed this project and hope they learned more about Christmas and how it is celebrated in America as much as we have about the Spring Festival and its celebration in China.

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