Xin Yue Center
“There is no such thing as a student who cannot learn, only a teacher who cannot teach” asserts Ge Xiaoping, often frustrated by the daily challenges of caring for the 35 mentally disabled students at the Xinyue Special Education Centre. Isolated from the proper access to training and support frequently taken for granted in the West, Xiaoping laments that her and her colleagues need more expertise to better attend to the demands of their students. The reality is, Xiaoping and her colleagues are already doing everything in their capacity to give the children the proper therapy they need, but over time and with a lack of permanent teaching staff, the burdens can weigh them down.
The training and support she seeks are actually already available in the form of open days coordinated for special needs teachers from all over Shanxi province. There they not only have the opportunity to share experiences and methodologies used but also take a break from their often emotionally demanding and stressful roles. But getting Xiaoping and her colleagues to attend involves expenses beyond the resources of such chronically under-funded NGOs. Furthermore, as a church run NGO, Xinyue Special Education Centre is at a particular disadvantage like so many others.
BRICKS believes that these open days are invaluable to the healthy minds the staff at Xinyue require to really play a greater role in the development of the students they teach. To allow one of the 7 teachers to attend this open day costs 548RMB (GBP£50/US$80/ €58). BRICKS hopes they can raise the 13700RMB (GBP£1255/US$2000/€1450) necessary to send not just the teachers but also the 15 full-time nuns and 3 indispensable volunteers of the school, and invites you to make a real difference to the care of Xinyue’s children.
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