Programs
for Underprivileged Children
- Many non-profit organizations in Kunming serve urban homeless
children, children of migrant laborers and women of
underprivileged families. Extending a helping hand in the field of
education, health and improved living standards, these NGOs
provide many amenities like self-study lounge for children, summer
camp for children, holidays activities, health and hygiene
promotion, job agent service for families, library facility etc.
These children are nurtured to develop a wide range of skills like
basic English communication, computer skills and vocational
training like weaving and craftwork. Education is geared at making
them capable of getting jobs or earning their own living in the
future. In general, programs are aimed at:
- Leading and managing a street children
center in Kunming - Providing
professional supervision & training to project staff
- Designing and providing casework, group work
and informal education programs to help street children to change
their behavior regarding their social and emotional problems
- Building the capacity of the local team
- Identifying, developing and overseeing the
implementation of projects in assigned communities in the PRC
- Developing and maintaining working
relationship with Chinese government officials and project
partners - Self-development through
ethics training to help them to return back to the mainstream of
social life
Programs in Healthcare
support underprivileged communities and the local migrant
population to achieve better health. Some NGOs of international
repute like the Health Unlimited has its East Asia Program Office
in Kunming, and this office is responsible for regional
developmental work in China and Myanmar. A lot of NGOs have
programs extending to other rural areas too. Healthcare
volunteering requires some related experience or
academic degrees on public
health or medicine.
Programs in Environmental
Conservation
support sustainable development as well as the protection of
ecological and cultural resources in Yunnan. Activities include
promoting corporate & grassroots volunteerism, providing
consultation to volunteers, sapling planting programs, assisting
the promotion and application of renewable energy for the rural
poor. Spearheading public awareness drives programs to conduct
campaigns increasing public awareness to preserve the local flora
and fauna.
Programs in Culture Conservation and Sustainable Development
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Several NGOs in Kunming and throughout Yunnan promote rural-urban
cooperation through programs that market rural produce in the
cities. The mission is to bridge the developmental gap between
rural and urban areas and create a platform to address these
issues. To achieve this goal, a number of NGOs take up projects to
improve the livelihood of farmers by creating direct channels to
sell fresh, green agricultural products to people in urban areas
or introducing other mutually beneficial programs so that expenses
on intermediaries can be avoided. All of this is aimed to enhance
the relationship between rural and urban residents. There
are also projects to endorse ethnic products through selling them
in the larger urban market. Selling handcrafts like Ping Zhai
handmade embroidery is a source of livelihood for farm women in
the mountainous region of the Wulong Township.
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