2020 New Oriental Spring Bud Student Action Launched
Continue to Pay Attention to and Help Poor Girls Learn and Grow

2020/05/07

Recently, the New Oriental Public Welfare Foundation and the China Children and Teenagers' Fund jointly launched the "Spring Bud Education Aid" in 2020 to provide precision funding to primary and middle school students in poor areas. This year, the New Oriental Public Welfare Foundation will fund 335 girls from poor families for three consecutive years. At the same time, it plans to carry out educational practice activities such as study and study to help poor girls grow in multiple ways.

The "New Oriental Spring Bud Student Action" was launched in 2019. The New Oriental Public Welfare Foundation will donate RMB 1 million to the China Children and Teenagers' Fund every year for five consecutive years, with a total donation of RMB 5 million, focusing on funding the learning and life of girls in poor areas, and Through educational activities such as study and study, it helps them broaden their horizons, establish dreams, and enhance social responsibility and national feelings.

In the past year, the "New Oriental Spring Bud Student Action" has funded 255 primary school students and 80 junior high school students from poverty-stricken areas in Gansu, Ningxia, Sichuan, Tibet, and Yunnan.

In addition to academic and living support, the New Oriental Public Welfare Foundation also launched the "Spring Bud Summer Camp" in the summer of 2019, organizing 33 representatives of the assisted girls to Beijing to carry out in-depth study tours and educational activities on the theme of Chinese history and excellent traditional culture. During the event, New Oriental teachers led the campers into the Palace Museum and National Museum, toured the Great Wall, visited the flag-raising ceremony, enjoyed the drama, and listened to the master class of Chinese studies. Campers broaden their horizons in colorful activities, receive patriotism education, and feel the nourishment of art and traditional culture.

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This year, the New Oriental Public Welfare Foundation plans to continue to conduct educational practice activities such as patriotic education, inspirational education, excellent traditional cultural education, and public welfare lecture halls for the assisted girls, while taking advantage of New Oriental’s rich educational resources and teacher advantages. By opening online teaching resources and other means, innovating the form and content of activities, and supporting the "Spring Bud Program" in multiple ways to help bridge the urban-rural education gap.

New Oriental Public Welfare Foundation was founded by New Oriental Education Technology Group in 2015. It aims to promote education reform and innovation through public welfare and use innovative technologies to promote educational equity. This is also the goal of New Oriental. New Oriental has been paying attention to the growth of children in poverty-stricken areas for 26 years since its establishment, and actively donated funds to support schools. Through various forms of public welfare initiatives, poor children receive better education: funding to build Hope Primary School, donating a book corner, and improving the hardware facilities of rural schools. ; Send excellent teachers to train teachers and students in rural areas, send high-quality educational resources to remote mountain areas through dual-teacher classrooms, and use technology to help balance education. In 2019, Yumin Hong, the founder of New Oriental, was hired as the honorary principal of Pu'an No. 1 Middle School in Guizhou and led the launch of the "My Big Friend" rural children's one-on-one student-learning action, pushing public welfare assistance to precision and depth.

After the outbreak of the covid-19 in 2020, New Oriental opened a variety of educational resources such as simultaneous courses and master classes for elementary and middle school students across the country free of charge, and provided hardware and software support for online courses for students in poor mountainous areas. Recently, New Oriental donated more than 10,000 books to rural children through the “100 Days of Public Welfare” time-stamping action and World Book Day charity activities. (Finish)