LIBRARY & READING

We donate carefully selected, high- quality picture books, novels, and nonfictions. We renovate library space to make them inviting. We

catalogue books and deploy digital library management system. We train teachers and students to be librarians. We promote book corners

in classrooms. We help teachers organize reading activities. We demonstrate within campuses and communities. Through such

comprehensive support, we ensure that libraries remain open regularly and books are used effectively so that reading in and out of the

classroom can become an integral part of student life.

VISIT LIBRARIES

VOLUNTEERING

Each year, we recruit volunteers from both China and abroad. After four weeks of online training and three days of training camp,

volunteers travel in teams to library sites to work for about a month. While on the site, our volunteers open up libraries and implement

circulating practice that is suitable for the schools' specific conditions. They also work closely with teachers to design and run reading

activities and promote reading both in school and in the wider community. We also recruit volunteers in metropolitan areas to serve in

migrant communities, where they run regular reading activities for migrant children.

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Join the 2023 Dream Corps Summer Volunteer Program

Dream Corps is recruiting 25 volunteers to participate in its 2023 Summer Volunteer Program (SVP).

Interviews will be given on a rolling basis. Our application deadline is March 19th, 2023.

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TEACHER TRAINING

Teachers from our sites across China are annually invited for days of training in library and reading. During training, rural teachers work

together with domain experts and Dream Corps organizers to share experience and learn from each other. Besides introduction to small

library management and children's literature, much of the training is devoted to practical methods for providing guidance and support for

students in sustained silent reading, in reading aloud stories, etc. Through many immersive, hands-on sessions, teachers come to be

equipped with skills for organizing effective reading activities.

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Training programs for local teachers

Dream Corps engages experts in developmental psychology and elementary education to rural schools in China, conducting short-term training programs for local teachers

Intensive training program

Right before the annual Summer Volunteer Program, Dream Corps invites teachers from its program sites to Beijing for an intensive training program with new volunteers. Program contents include library construction and management, children's picture book recommendations, reading activity designs and execution, developmental psychology, and many other related topics.

Aims of teacher training

The Teacher Training Program aims to enhance local teachers' skills and inspire their drive and passion for elementary education.

READING IMPACT

COGNITIVE LEVEL

Most of our knowledge is acquired through reading.

Reading is the cornerstone of a person's lifetime learning

and the vehicle of a whole culture's continuation.
READING IMPACT

EMOTIONAL WELLBEING

As an inexhaustible source of enjoyment,

reading of good books could provide company,

solace, and inspiration to children in poverty or loneliness.
READING IMPACT

LIFE CHOICES

From our immediate environment, we gain only limited life experience.

The indirect experience through reading expands

the outlooks of our life in boundless ways.
READING IMPACT

DREAM REALIZATION

Books give us knowledge, show us different parts of the world

& different ways of life, and thereby cultivate our dreams as wel

l as our abilities to realize them.