Free Lunch for Children (FLFC) launched the ‘Sharing Love – Ten cities, One Hundred Universities’ Campaign on Oct. 19th. And we have received a positive response in many schools and students during the last month. People’s passion for charity and love for children has been keeping us warm since autumn.
Here’s the review of the campaign in Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST), Guangdong University of Technology (GUT), Jingdezhen University (JU), Hunan University of Arts and Science (HUAS) and Hunan University (HU). Let’s find out what did the students do for their common ideal.
By Niuniu
Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST)
The first teach-in of Free Lunch for Children ‘Sharing Love – Ten cities, One Hundred Universities’ Campaign was held in Herbert Gleiter Institute (HGI) of NUST in the evening of Oct. 22nd. The leaders of Youth Volunteers Association of the university and departments and some students gathered here to learn about Free Lunch for Children program and this campaign.
Du Xiangxiang, one of the volunteers of FLFC and chief organizer in Nanjing region, was also the organizer and major lecturer of this activity.
Miss Du introduced the history of FLFC and pointed out that the volunteers had been playing a vital role in the program. The development of FLFC depends on the volunteers from all over the country. Through the activities, we hope more and more college students will join us and keep fighting for the welfare of left-behind children in rural
Many students became interested in FLFC after the teach-in and talked to Miss Du to learn more about the program. They agreed to cooperate with FLFC in their own ways. Furthermore, some students were prepared to join FLFC as volunteers.
Love on the 3rd Avenue
The furthest distance in the world is the distance between birds and fish.
——Tagore
Any distance can be overcome in the world.
——a member of NUST Alpha Corner
No one can get a thousand miles away without one little step after another.
An event on the theme of ‘Sharing Love – Ten cities, One Hundred Universities’ (NUST Alpha) was held by NUST Institute of Material on the 3rd Avenue on Nov. 7th.
The event, which lasted for 7 hours from 9am to 4pm, raised donations by walking along the 3rd Avenue and sales of postcards. One meal would be donated to a child after a volunteer walked along the 3rd Avenue and got a FLFC sticker. The enthusiasm of members of Alpha and other students from NUST conquered the bad weather.
A Volunteer from Alpha was introducing FLFC program and the event to a student on the 3rd Avenue.
Cotton candy made people smile.
The volunteer put the FLFC sticker on a little boy’s coat as a symbol for completing walking along the 3rd Avenue.
It is worth mentioning that students from Nanjing Tech University and Nanjing Sport Institute also came to the event to exchange points of view with members of Alpha. ‘There will be more universities that are willing to join Free Lunch for Children ‘Ten cities, One Hundred Universities’ Campaign, using variety of ideas to promote this concept to all the universities in Jiangsu Province and to help more children away from hunger and grow up healthily,’ said Wang Xuejuan, the president of College Student Station of Jiangsu Province.
The teach-in and theme event at NUST was a successful opening, which set a good example for other universities. We hope that more and more college students will join our team of charity to keep children from impoverished mountainous areas away from hunger.
Guangdong University of Technology (GUT)
The first stop of Free Lunch for Children ‘Sharing Love – Ten cities, One Hundred Universities’ teach-in in Guangdong region was held in Room 221 at No.2 teaching building at GUT.
Students from the Institute of Volunteers and members of Youth Volunteers Association of GUT came to the event to learn about FLFC program.
Pan Qiuyu, director of the Planning Department of College Student Station of FLFC in Guangdong, was giving a speech.
At the meeting, Pan Qiuyu, director of the Planning Department of College Student Station of FLFC in Guangdong, gave a speech about the development of FLFC in details and the volunteer team of FLFC in Guangzhou. She also introduced the College Student Station of FLFC in Guangdong and ‘Ten cities, One Hundred Universities’ campaign, and asked everyone to join the team of charity and to work together for providing free lunch for the children in mountainous areas.
Volunteers Yang Hui, Li Zhiyong, and Yuan Sihui from College Student Station of FLFC in Guangdong shared their experience and feelings in their daily work at FLFC. They talked about their views on college students and public welfare, wishing more college students to join FLFC and do public work by the power of college students.
After the sharing, students who were interested in FLFC asked a lot of questions to the volunteers about the program, the College Student Station and the following event in other universities. They promised to offer their help for the welfare of the children from mountainous areas.
Jingdezhen University (JU)
The teach-in of ‘Ten cities, One Hundred Universities’ in the city of porcelain began!
FLFC ‘Ten cities, One Hundred Universities’ event came to Jingdezhen University in the afternoon on Nov. 1st. More than 50 students filed their applications for joining our team after they learnt about FLFC.
FLFC had offered free lunch for the teachers and students of six schools in Jingdezhen. Xu Guofeng, the president of Jingdezhen Caring Volunteer Association and head of FLFC in Jingdezhen region, were telling sweet stories of the hard work in FLFC.
Hunan University of Arts and Science (HUAS)
FLFC teach-in was held in HUAS on Oct. 24th.
Xiao Xiao, the head of ‘Ten cities, One Hundred Universities’ campaign, was giving a presentation on the FLFC program.
The group photo of ‘Ten cities, One Hundred Universities’ event at HUAS.
Hunan University (HU)
Rainbow Education Assistance Association (REAA), which has been dedicating to helping vulnerable groups, especially poor children about their education problems, originally founded in the Institute of Electrical and Information Engineering of Hunan University in May, 2006.
This October, REAA made common cause with FLFC to carry out a variety of activities on campus.
Volunteers of REAA caught the great opportunity to introduce the FLFC program to the students when the community recruitment in HU was in its full swing. The FLFC display racks, pamphlets and Deng Fei’s (who graduated from HU) book Softness Changes China had drew many students’ attention.
Xiao Xiao, the head of FLFC volunteers, was invited to the 10th REAA meeting in the evening on 25th to share her experience in her work for the program and to help new members of REAA learn more about FLFC.
