About Learning Beyond Borders
Learning Beyond Borders is a Shin Shin Youth Group project. Shin Shin Youth Group partners with teachers from Shin Shin school in China. It let the youth volunteers to creatively teach English to students in rural China. It helps the students to develop good English reading and pronunciation skills and broaden their horizons. The project lets the Shin Shin Youth members to better understand how Shin Shin’s works help people in rural China and encourages members to sever the people who needs help.
The idea of a Learning Beyond Borders was first conceived in December 2016 while Justin was brainstorming with then youth president Ruxin. After much planning and contact with Shin Shin schools, our first online activity was held in March 2017, with Justin as the first volunteer, exchanging cultures with the sixth grade. Soon after, Alex Liu, Emily, Jane, and Yixin joined the team. By the end of 2017, over 500 students had already interacted with the volunteers, and the program included 5 youth volunteers exchanging 5 classes every week. Now in 2019, our projects have expanded into 17 weekly interactions in 12 schools at 6 provinces: Heilongjiang, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Anhui, Hubei, and Sichuan. Over 1600 students have benefited from this program!
The idea of a Learning Beyond Borders was first conceived in December 2016 while Justin was brainstorming with then youth president Ruxin. After much planning and contact with Shin Shin schools, our first online activity was held in March 2017, with Justin as the first volunteer, exchanging cultures with the sixth grade. Soon after, Alex Liu, Emily, Jane, and Yixin joined the team. By the end of 2017, over 500 students had already interacted with the volunteers, and the program included 5 youth volunteers exchanging 5 classes every week. Now in 2019, our projects have expanded into 17 weekly interactions in 12 schools at 6 provinces: Heilongjiang, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Anhui, Hubei, and Sichuan. Over 1600 students have benefited from this program!
