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发帖数: 23 | 1 博雅论坛第八讲: 针对中国农村教育困境的尝试
—滋根的中国实践与匹夫有责
Experimental Solutions to Education in Rural China
– A Case Study of Zigen and How You Can Make an Impact
Speaker:
Pat Yang, Founder and President of the Zigen Fund
Dongjin Cai, Deputy Executive Director of the Zigen Fund
Time: 2:00-4:00pm, November 5th, 2011
Location: Lecture Hall D, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford
Street, Cambridge, MA
Agenda: 2:00 – 2:10 Speaker Introduction Host: Ruixi Hao
2:10 – 2:40 Documentary
2:40 – 3:40 Presentation
3:40 – 4:00 Q&A
This seminar is open to everyone interested, NOT limited to PKU alumni. The
presentation will be in Chinese. Please RSVP to:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=
dG5kNXRKZTQzT1pNeFg4eV93aHFkVFE6MQ
Key Topics:
• Challenges of education in rural China.
• Experimental solutions Zigen implemented in rural China; Key
learning and the path forward.
• NGO operation and administration in China and America; personal
stories in pursuing an NGO career.
About the Zigen Fund:
The Zigen Fund, with its Chinese meaning as nourishing the roots, is
dedicated to supporting people in poverty, initiating and facilitating
projects addressing unmet basic needs, particularly education and primary
health care, for women and children in rural China, as well as preservation
of the environment and local culture.
Through score of years, Zigen has established wide grassroots network in
rural China weaving 200 villages and migrant worker communities, provided
subsidy to 90,000 students, and established sister organizations in Taiwan
and Hong Kong.
Websites: www.zigen.org (US); www.zigen.org.cn (China).
About Speakers:
Pat Yang
In the past 25 years, Pat Yang has been actively engaged in supporting
education and village development in rural China and migrant worker
communities in Chinese cities.
Pat Yang is the President of the Zigen Fund, a 501(c) 3 charity registered
in the United States. In 1988, Pat Yang was one of the founders of the Zigen
Fund. In 1996, she also founded the China Zigen Education and Development
Association in China which was one of the very few registered independent
national NGO in China at that time. Pat has actively participated in
programs and organizational development of Zigen.
Dongjin Cai
Dongjin is the Deputy Executive Director of the Zigen Fund. He has 10 years
of US and China non-profit involvement, before which he had worked at
Microsoft and Wall Street. In US, he has participated a multi-sector
collaboration reconstruction plan to rebuild NYC Chinatown under AmeriCorps.
In China, his previous organization cooperated with Jet Lee’s “One Fund”
to airlift the first batch of life-saving materials after ‘5.12’
earthquake. He has led other programs such as disaster recovery program,
migrant school program, youth entrepreneurship program, rural environmental
program and rural teacher’s training program, and etc. With both formal NGO
management training and academic researches, Dongjin has gained broad range
and in-depth understanding of domestic and international NGO operation and
administration. Dongjin graduated from PKU Computer Science Department (B.S.
88, M.S. 92).
About the documentary:
(30min)
In a millennium village on the Loess Plateau in Shanxi province, where the
Yellow River turns 360 degree, the villagers struggle to preserve their own
school when the national policy requires consolidating scattered rural
schools into densely populated towns. How do the rural parents afford the
high living cost for kids to live on campus? How do off-campus kids sustain
to walk to school 10 Kilometers away from home everyday? How could villagers
pay off the RMB 50,000 debt they borrowed to build their own school?
Christine Choy, the Director, is Chair of the Film Department of New York
University and has produced over 100 documentaries. One of them,
Vincent Chin> was nominated for an Oscar award for the best documentary
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