Caterpillar volunteers and Changping Xinlong school students spend time reading
In November 12, 2016, more than 20 employees of Caterpillar Inc and volunteers from BNVS volunteers came together in Beijing city of Changping District Xinlong school, bring some apples from the Caterpillar foundation forest project fall harvest for the children here, as well as by Caterpillar to join public organizations new citizens plan for the future of the organization in the public reading Carnival activity.
Although the weather is cold, but can not resist the enthusiasm of the volunteers, they want to use these special meaning of the apple and their company to bring warmth to the children of the migrant children's school. The event has been the third Carnival event for mobile children supported by Caterpillar volunteers this year.
The new school is currently in Beijing more than 130 migrant schools of migrant children have learned more than 10 of these schools, but because of the lack of resources, teaching conditions and the quality of education is relatively weak. Morning, the staff volunteers went to school with the Caterpillar foundation Xinlong, continue to support the BNVS student volunteers and volunteers together to participate in the activities of media training and building site.
Afternoon after the event, Caterpillar vice president, Caterpillar (Chinese) Investment Limited company chairman Mr. Chen Qihua on behalf of Caterpillar Inc in the past six years in the Caterpillar foundation forest project volunteers, will be presented in part to benefit farmers harvest apple project area to new schools, in order to convey "the recipients also help people" concept. Caterpillar believes that the three aspects of economy, environment and society are equally important to sustainable development, otherwise the whole system will lose balance. While pursuing sustainable progress, we have been taking measures to better balance the three aspects. At present, the Caterpillar foundation public welfare forest project has begun to focus on ecological poverty alleviation from the single windbreak and sand prevention green forest, helping local farmers improve their family income. This autumn, the farmers who were helped by the project also returned a small portion of the apples they harvested to volunteers, hoping that more people would get help by doing so.
Subsequently, the carnival officially began, a total of more than 200 new students. Activity is composed of a plurality of reading games, including the demolition of the tribe, story house, book cover, small puzzle writer, Cross Fire, timely rain, the children can participate in the game to complete the task to earn coins and then earned wisdom, wisdom and experience for coin books, read the fun in the game. Whether it's telling stories or stories, children are actively involved and fully demonstrating their imagination. Volunteers have been involved in the interaction with their children and spent a happy afternoon with their children.
The activity ended at 5 p.m.. After the event, the kids happily returned to their classes with books, cotton candy, or colored paintings on their faces. Volunteers have said, "this day, although hard, but their own pay is worth it," because we all accompany them to experience the fun of reading, but also to see the children's happiness.
Caterpillar Foundation provides support for the public welfare organization "new citizens program", and carries out reading and science education in the national migrant children's schools. In Chinese, Caterpillar is committed to be recognized, responsible, with "enterprise citizen", and encourages all employees to participate in community activities conducive to the public interest, help to improve the quality of their work and life of the community life, realize community prosperity and sustainable development.
