Content. Welcoming Words.2. Introduction of CSETC 3. Description of CSETC Work Camps in Previous Volunteers Feedback..14

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2 Content General Information Welcoming Words.2 Introduction of CSETC 3 Description of CSETC Work Camps in Previous Volunteers Feedback..14 CSETC Contact Information 18 3

3 Welcoming Words Dear Volunteers, For the 2015 Edition of the International Volunteering Action Program in China, the Chinese Society of Education Training Center (Abbr: CSETC) is pleased and truly excited to welcome YOU to be a part of the 2015 summer campaign in China. The past 2014 summer is a big season for CSETC. We achieved a lot through this summer. We continued the English Language and Culture exchange camps, went to 7 provinces to have 9 camps. During the WHV campaign,besides The Great Wall, Mount Sanqingshan National Park, Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion, we added Panda base and Dujiangyan to our World heritage Volunteer Action, which got great success. We also held the 2nd MA-CHN-DO World Heritage Youth Volunteers Work Camp in Qufu, Shandong, and cooperated with Korean organization Better World to hold the 13th Happy Move Global Youth Volunteer Camp. Further more, under the Millennium Development Goals, it is our first time to hold the Smart Lady, Smart Life camp which focus on the gender equality and culture exchange, and we will keep doing it every year. The coming 2015 adventure will bring a real, significant change in many Chinese peoples' life, as well as deeply promote mutual understanding and work for peace. The purpose of this booklet is to give you more information about our 2015 International Youth Action, to help you in preparing yourself to join in the 2015 summer program. Every culture in this Earth differs in a way that we might never imagine. Prepare yourself for the new challenges ahead. Open up your mind for any possibilities that you might encounter during your journey, but overall enjoy your experience here, it might change your life forever! We look forward to meeting you in CHINA! Sincerely yours! CSETC Work Team. Jan

4 About CSETC The Chinese Society of Education Training Center (CSETC)was founded in Through the International Youth Action Program, CSETC encourages young people from all over the world to come together, strive to achieve the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) and positively Impact our world! CSETC is devoted to build an international platform for the young talents through close partnerships with UNESCO World Heritage Center for WHV campaign since 2012, has been working with the Coordinating Committee of International Volunteer Service (CCIVS)since 2012 and became the Associate-Member of CCIVS in 2014, further more CSETC had cooperated with the international youth organizations as those from France, USA, Mexico, Korea, Estonia, Indonesia, Austria, Malaysia and etc., sending/ receiving the young volunteers with our partner organizations around the world. CSETC has organized several volunteer programs widespread in China, focus on the theme of Gender s Equality, World Heritage Conversation, Culture Exchange Education, there re more than thousands of Chinese national and international young people take part in these campaign in China. At the same time, CSETC also offers the social practice opportunity in abroad, there s a scientific & practical team responsible for the promoting, training and evaluation for sending out the qualified Chinese candidates to other countries for the world campaign. As for the projects this year, under the theme of different approach, CSETC will cooperate with the partners closely to make a difference in 2015! 32 Countries Language & Culture Exchange work camp 5000 Chinese Teenagers Benefit from the program 220 China national volunteers work with the internationals 180 International Volunteers Interna Gender Equality work camp World Heritage Volunteer work camp 3

5 Description of CSETC Work Camps in 2015 Short facts of 2014 International Youth Action in China 1. Volunteers Usually, most of the volunteers in our Work Camps are years old. The volunteers come from all over the world, for example during the 2014 Edition,more than 180 international volunteers from 32 countries and more than 220 national volunteers joined our summer activities, benefiting more than 5000 students in China. Moreover, in each Work Camp, international volunteers work together with national volunteers to create a culture exchange and to have a better understanding of China. 2. Camp leaders Each Work Camp is driven by one Camp Leader (national or international) who is in charge of coordinating, supervising and providing guidance to the volunteers for the whole duration of the project. 3. Activities: In addition to the Work Camps activities, the participants will have the chance to get an insight of the Chinese culture as well as discover and enjoy the different facets of China. Additional Remarks: 4

6 2015 International Youth Action in China No. PROGRAM TYPE CAMP NAME CAMP LOCATION CAMP NUMBER PROGRAM DATES PLANNED NUMBER OF INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERS NEEDED NUMBER OF CHINESE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Gender Equality 1 and Culture Exchange 2 World Heritage Voluntary Camp 3 World Heritage Voluntary Camp World Heritage 4 Voluntary Camp Smart Lady Village in GESS July Smart Life Beijing & Hebei The Great Wall Beijing & Hebei WHVGW July Three confucious Qufu WHVCT Jul.-7Aug City,Shandong Mount Shangrao City, WHVMS Jul-7 Aug Sanqingshan Jiangxi Province 5 Language and Culture Exchange Quzhou Handan City, Hebei Province LC-001 First Week of July Language and Culture Exchange Jiangxi Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province LC-002 The middle of July Language and Culture Exchange Shanxi Taiyuan City,Shanxi Province LC-003 The last ten days of July Language and Culture Exchange Liaoning Shenyang city, Liaoning Province LC-004 First two weeks of July Language and Culture Exchange Jiaozuo Jiaozuo City, Henan Province LC-005 Last ten days of July Language and Culture Exchange Beijing Beijing LC-006 First ten days of July Language and I love confucious Culture Exchange 1-2 Qufu City,Shandong LC-007 The middle of July Language and I love confucious Culture Exchange 1-2 Qufu City,Shandong LC-008 The middle of July 8 10 Province 5

7 Location of the camps Beijing Beijing (Chinese: 北 京 ; pinyin: Běijīng), sometimes romanized as Peking., is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world. The population was about 20,693,000. Shanxi Province Jiangxi province Capital city: Taiyuan Capital city: Nanchang Provincial population: 33.4 million Provincial population: 42.8 million Famous for: Famous for: Pinqyao, a Ming-era walled city; Jingdezhen - the home of Chinese Wutaishan, one of China's 4 holy porcelain; Lushan National Park; Buddhist mountains; Datong Buddhist Sanqingshan National Park - grottoes. UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Shandong Province Capital city: Jinan Provincial population: 91.8 million Famous for: Qingdao's famous International Beer Festival, Qufu - home of Confucius (the Kong family). Liaoning Province Capital city: Shenyang Provincial population: 43.9million Famous for: The Ming Liaodong Wall, Wunu Mountain, Jade Buddha Palace, Port city of Dalian, Shanyang Imperial Palace,. Hebei province Capital city: Shijiazhuang Provincial population: 68 million Famous for: Chengde's Qing Dynasty summer palace, Great Wall Shanhaiguan Pass, the easternmost end of the Ming-era Great Wall. Henan Province Capital city: Zhengzhou Provincial population: 94.1 million Famous for: Luoyang Peony Flower, Shaolin 6

8 Project: Gender Equality & Culture Exchange Camps Gender Equality is one of UNESCO's two global priorities and it is also one of the Millennium Development Goals, with a commitment to promote equality between women and men across the Organization's mandate. Gender Equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for the creation of sustainable and peaceful societies. UNESCO s recently published report on Gender Equality: Heritage and Creativity vividly demonstrates the need for deeper debate, research and awareness-raising on the need for equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities for women and men, boys and girls in the fields of heritage and creativity. Our Gender Equality & Culture Exchange Program is especially focused on building a world, which people can live together friendly, on achieving better gender equality. It also tried hard to empower women and lead women to have a smart life. The schedule & task: The volunteers will take visit at a village which is close to the Great Wall, meet with the local residents, try have some discussion about gender equality; do some surveys, try to analyze the result of the surveys and try to find some solutions for the problems the surveys reveal. At the same time learn/ teach the traditional hand crafts as the culture exchange, help local people to develop their own family workshop for life. School visit and Education: The volunteers will have activity classes with Chinese rural school students, they will work together with Chinese volunteers in the schools to have classes and activities with the students there and also do some repairing work for the school, such as painting the roof, cleaning the school yard, and so on. The Program Place: The Great Wall village, Beijing. GESS-01 7

9 World Heritage Volunteers Work Camps (WHV) Project: The WHV camps were initiated in the frame work of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention on the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, and seeks to mobilize and involve young people and youth organization in World Heritage preservation and promotion. The project WHV contributes to Raise awareness of local and international volunteers as well as the local communities about issues related to World Heritage, sustainable development and biodiversity; and put accent on activities in natural World Heritage sites. It is also expected to share best practices to contribute to the development of non-formal education tools by documenting new approaches to promote World Heritage. Program Tasks: 1. Manuel work at the WH site, contribute to the WH sites and local residence, raising the awareness or the WH conversation. 2. On campus school education and culture exchange events with the local teenagers who s age Class type includes the topic class with 20 students in one group, tutorial class with each individual, and group activities. Program places: The Great Wall Jinshanling, Beijing & Hebei. WHVGW-001 The Confucius Temple and Family mansion, the cemetery, Shandong Province. WHVCT-002 The Mount Sanding National Park, Jiangxi Province. WHVMS-003 8

10 Short facts of the WHV camps: The Great Wall Jinshanling, Beijing & Hebei. WHVGW-001 The Great Wall World Heritage Volunteers Camp is a project organized by CSETC in partnership with the UNESCO World Heritage Center as well as CCIVS. This camp is an international volunteers' camp which aims at the protection of world heritage sites. Under the support of Beijing Bureau of cultural relics, Chinese Academy of cultural heritage,changchengxiaozhan as well as Bakeshiying Central School of Luanping county, Hebei Province, this camp successfully improves the volunteers' understanding towards the Great Wall. They inherit the Chinese culture through the Great Wall, raise the local villagers' awareness of better protection of the Great Wall. During this camp, volunteers from different countries gather together to do some world heritage protection education work, restoration of old Great Wall photographs, and a series of activities such as surveying and mapping. Date Duration Location Participants July 12 days Beijing/ Hebei Province 20 international volunteers and 22 national volunteers Meals: At the restaurants and the dinning hall of Central School Bakeshiying Accommodation: In the students' dormitory of Bakeshiying Central School The Opening Ceremony Education events Surveying the wall 9

11 The Confucius Temple and Family mansion, the cemetery, Shandong Province. WHVCT-002 Through the World Heritage Volunteers Camp in Qufu, more and more people deeply understand Confucius culture, improve personal accomplishment, enhance the sense of national pride and they help to promote the understanding of the Chinese history through the Confucianism, share the culture differences among the world, to create a harmonious world. During the camp, volunteers will discover the present problem of the tourists safety and gradually improve the protection measures. They will trim the tree on Confucius site, participate and experience the Confucius Fete Ceremony, do the clean up work in the temple, plant some trees in the village surrounding the Confucius areas, paint the railing on Confucius site. International volunteers will work together with Chinese volunteers to do some education work to local middle school students. Dates: Duration: Location: Participants: Meals: Accommodation: Dates: 26 July to 7th Aug. 13 days Qufu, Shandong Province, China 12 international volunteers and 15 Chinese Volunteers At the restrutant and the Xingtan Middle School On the school campus Joining in the Confucius Fete Ceremony Painting the signboards Extirpating weed in Kong Cemetery 10

12 The Mount Sanding National Park, Jiangxi Province. WHVMS-003 World Heritage Volunteer Mount Sanqing National Park is listed in the WHC campaign This is the 3rd time undertook by CSETC in partnership with Jiangxi Sanqingshan Management Committee Tourist Administration and Jiangxi Linchuan No.1 Middle School. The project aims at understanding the concept of world heritage, not only the students in the school and the tourists, but also the volunteers and our youths get the deeper understanding about world heritage and the Mount Sanqingshan National Park to create an awareness raising about the importance of protecting the World Heritage site and the Mount Sanqingshan National Park. Organizing the volunteer service is to make the influence on the tourists and local residents to raise their consciousness about the surrounding precious world heritage. Dates: Duration: Location: Participants: Meals: Accommodation: 20 July to 7 Aug. 19 days Jiangxi Province,China 12 International volunteers and 14 Chinese volunteers At the restaurant and the dinning hall of Jiangxi Linchuan No.1 Middle School At three-star hotel and in the students' dormitory of Jiangxi Linchuan No.1 Middle School Raise tourists awareness Educating Children Interviewing tourist World heritage outside China 11

13 Language and Culture Exchange Camps (ELC) Project: Since 2006, the Language and Culture Exchange International Youth Volunteer Program has been conducted 9 periods and 60 times. Its wide influence has covered over 10 provinces and cities around China. The aim of this action is to popularize education equality, encourage cultural exchange, create a multicultural environment and to promote the cultural exchange and transmission between young people from each country, as well as reveal the cultural diversity. The project builds an international platform for youth to exchange with close relationship between international volunteers and local schools. It continually widens the young people's field of vision, offers the social practice opportunity in China a non-formal education tool which is proposed by UNESCO. TASK: During the program, the volunteers will spend 7-12 days in the camp to carry out Language and Culture Exchange lessons and activities with Chinese teenagers from 7-16 year old, they will also attend some feedback sessions after each working day to discuss and debrief the daily activities. In the last 1-2 days, the volunteer team will take trips to the most popular tourist attractions there. Program places (3 of 8): Jiangxi Linchuan No.1 Middle School Jiangxi Province Dongbei Yucai Middle School Liaoning Province Jiaozuo No.One Middle School, Henan Province 12

14 Support and Leisure activities: During the program, there s a Chinese volunteer will work with you together for all the events. Native English speaker is required. There s one weekend day break with local culture & site seeing will offer to the volunteers. Short facts: Group picture Fashion show Having topic class Out door activity Little engineers Auction Oral English test Introducing family 13

15 Feed backs from Volunteers Name:Mahmoud Abd Elmageed Nationality: Egypt Camp: WHV Sanqingshan camp 2013 Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries Camp in Chengdu 2014 Three Confucious Camp in Qufu 2014 First I'd like to thank everyone who was responsible for organizing the camp. I have attended many camps before with my organization (Life Makers Egypt), but the fact is that this camp was one of the best camps in terms of commitment of time, good preparation, excellent organization, respect and appreciation, seriousness in work, entertainment & free time.i am very impressed with the idea of the camp and I hope it will be implemented in Egypt. I would like to do it, really.in the camp I met new friends from many countries and these friendships are great benefit for all of us. I will never forget a great leader Tania, this name taught me the principles of true leadership and respect for others and coexistence without problems or stress, as well as wisdom, objectivity, humility, high ethics and excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills. Finally I appreciate the great role of this camp in the development of children and their potential. Thank you so much for this great opportunity, I hope to participate on it once again... next year! Thank you! 14

16 Name:Liu Yuqiao (the first boy from left side) Nationality: China Camp: ELC Hebei Guantao 2010 WHV the Great Wall 2012 ELC Jiangxi Fuzhou 2011 ELC Henan camp 2013 Hi, my name is Liu Yuqiao, but please call me John. I have participated in six summer camps since I was a student- camper in 2008 and 2009 in Beijing and I became a volunteer in 2010 when I was 14 years old. I took part in the camps in Hebei and Jiangxi during the following 2 years. In 2012, I joined the World Heritage camp in Beijing and in 2013, I participated in a workcamp and was chosen to be the Vice Team leader in the Henan camp. I gained a lot of experience during the camp. When I first joined the camp, I was completely amazed by the teachers performance. They piqued my interest in English, which encouraged me to begin learning English by myself. What's really important to me is that I have made many good friends. I am really glad to have been chosen as the Vice leader of the Henan camp this year. My responsibilities during the camp were almost the same as what James had undertaken in the past. I hope many future students will benefit from these camps as I did. these camps is because they help me to develop my interests and leadership skills, and provide me with great opportunities to share my ideas and learn from other people. 15 The reason I have kept joining

17 Basic requirements Language English is the official language of the Work Camps, thus all the volunteers are expected to be able to communicate in English. Visa and Transportation Volunteers have to pay for their own international flights, insurance and visa. For French people and some other countries, due to a new law about the Chinese visa ( ), F visa is not available anymore, if you have this kind of problem, please contact us to ensure a touristic visa. Punctuality Punctuality is a fundamental value during each camp, as a team work, volunteers should be on time. On campus, volunteers should arrive at least fifteen minutes before the beginning of each class in order to finish all the preparation work before the class. Tardiness As a rule of this program, Volunteers are not permitted to be late or to leave early. If an emergency arises before the classes or activities, Party B should contact the team leader as soon as possible. Feedback Meeting Besides the classes and activities, volunteers are required to be present in team feedback meetings and other preparation works, and provide suggestions. Other Requirements It is forbidden to discuss topics concerning politics, religion, sex and drugs. Smoking is not allowed in the classroom and in the office in order to avoid a negative influence on the teenagers. Please ask the teenagers not to eat during class time. Classrooms should be kept clean. Volunteers must make sure to leave desks and chairs organized and to erase the blackboard after each class. Additional Opportunities Volunteers with the excellent performance could apply an internship opportunity in Beijing, and they are also possible to be recommended to apply for the Washington Scholars Fellowship Program which is a volunteer opportunity in Washington DC in the USA. They will also be recommended to the Chinese Governmental Scholars Fellowship which is a learning opportunity in China s top universities. CSETC will write an appreciation letter for volunteers with excellent performance after each summer program and also deliver the certification letter from the prestigious Chinese governments. 16

18 Some Useful Information Basic information 1. And from previous experiences, some Chinese students are very shy, so you need to use some Ice Breakers to involve them. 2. Chinese people are not used to drink normal water, they usually drink HOT WATER. 3. Sometimes Bottled water is not provided, this is why you should bring a cup or something to fill it will normal or hot water. 4. Accommodation: The camp site or living condition may be standard or sub-standard. We hope you can be prepared. Money We advice you to not exchange your money at the Currency Exchange Office of the Airport. They will charge you much more than the bank. You can change the money in your own country. Or, the Camp Leader, Vice Camp Leader or National Volunteers will help you to go to the bank once in Xidan. To exchange your money, you will need to show your passport and give your signature, after what you will receive your money and a receipt that you have to keep in case you will need it for tax clearance upon your departure. How you should bring? Knowing that the average salary in china is around 550 Euros, we advise you to bring Euros for one month. You may spend less, but it is preferable for your own comfort Food and accommodation: Before the departure to the camps location, you will be living in Beijing s high school attached to normal university dorms (4-6 people will share one room) The meals will be served at the school s diner hall Two or three cards with a certain amount of money will be provided by room and you will use them to shower as well as in the diner hall to get your meals. Note: The school dorms have a special policy and requirement: Each intern have to leave 100RMB as a deposit to the dorms managers during their staying. The money will be returned before leaving the school. 17

19 2015 CSETC International Youth Action waiting for you!