1.     Provide a rich variety of high quality books to underprivileged children, addressing inequality of resources between rural and urban areas.

2.     Create sustained impact by directly working with local school teachers and residents on issues of reading, education, and beyond.

3.     Strive for unprejudiced mutual understanding and intercultural exchange through full immersion.

1.     Establishing and developing libraries: decorations, cataloging books, setting up the electronic cataloging system, and working with students and teachers to establish library policies.

2.     Reading programs: Library Month, Reading Aloud, Science and Reading, English Reading, and crafts.

2.     Understanding and learning from locals:Communicating with the local teachers, Visiting student homes, Promoting reading in the community

1.     Gain first-hand understanding of rural China through experiential learning.

2.     Work with a team of brilliant volunteers from diverse backgrounds and build long-lasting friendships.

3.     Become part of the dynamic Dream Corps community and contribute to its sustained efforts to advance educational equality.

4.     Practice social and civic responsibility through community service.

5.     Explore issues of education in the context of China's political structure, historical background, and socioeconomic developments.

ARE YOU

•      Mature, curious, and open-minded?

•      A strategic thinker and/or an active doer with a passion for development, education, and the non-profit sector in China?

•      Hardworking, self-motivated, and able to adapt to new and possibly harsh environments?

DO YOU BELIEVE IN

•      Diversity, understanding, and intercultural exchange?

•      Empowerment through learning?

•      Effecting change not by simply delivering goods but by investing in people?

If your answers are YES, then we strongly encourage you to apply.

January 29 Online application opens

March 19 Online Application closes

By April 1 Official acceptance letters are sent out

April 15 Online training begins (including 4 sessions, 3 hours each)

May 19 Beijing check-in

May 19-21 Beijing training

May 21 Volunteers leave for sites

May 22-June 15 Working at sites

June 16 Volunteers come back to Beijing

June 17-18 Concluding forum

•      Interested in international development, rural education, and the non-profit sector in China.

•      Participate proactively in all activities and immerse in the local environment.

•      Respectful of local rural customs, habits, and culture and willing to humbly listen to the views of local teachers, leaders, and parents.

•      Able to adapt to rural accommodations, environment, and eating conditions.

•  ​    Able to communicate and work effectively and respectfully with people from different cultural backgrounds. Team-oriented and tolerant of diversity.

•      Responsible, well-organized, and creative.

•      Willing to promote the importance of reading to locals through various activities.

•      Experience with volunteering and community service is strongly preferred but not required.

•      Ability to speak Mandarin Chinese is mandatory.

Please read the important dates and make sure you are able to participate in the entire program.

Attendance in the entire program is absolutely required.

Volunteers pay their own airfare to Beijing. Besides airfare, each volunteer should prepare minimum 3,000RMB for basic logistics. This cost will be collected by Dream Corps upfront on the first day of on-site training to support each volunteer for the whole program. At the end of the program, expenditure details and leftover expenses, should there be any, will be returned to each volunteer. The basic personal cost covers the cost of accommodations during training and the concluding forum, transportation to and from the program sites, lodging at the sites, travel health insurance, and training package. Dream Corps will be responsible for the costs of the library and reading programs (i.e. costs for books, other equipment, and librarian training).

Note: Volunteers who confirm to participate in the program must pay 500RMB (or equivalent amount of other currency) deposit. If volunteers complete the program, deposit will be counted as part of 3,000RMB for basic logistics; if volunteers drop out of the program for personal reasons, 500RMB will not be returned but instead will be used to buy books for children at our volunteer sites.

If you have any more questions regarding our program, please visit Dream Corps official website

www.dreamcorps.org

If you have any questions regarding the application and volunteer selection process, please contact

volunteer@dreamcorps.org

Our WeChat Official Account

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