《上海日报（英文版）》配图报道我校爱心暑托班志愿者
Wang Liping (second from left) from ShanghaiUniversity of Electric Power works as a volunteer at Hongkou District No. 4 Central Elementary School as part of the “Love Summer Daycare Class."
8月13日出版的《上海日报（英文版） 》第10版以“本地学生学以致用”为题配图报道了我校服务在虹口区第四中心小学爱心暑托班的志愿者，报道如下：
Youngsters helping youngsters
Wang Liping from Shanghai University of Electric Power is working as a volunteer at Hongkou District No. 4 Central Elementary School as part of the “Love Summer Daycare Class.”
The program offers inexpensive day-care service to elementary school students who don’t have anyone to look after them during the summer vacation. Every class has two college volunteers to assist a teacher, help arrange lunch for the children and many other tasks.
The classrooms are filled with handicrafts and paper-cuts. The main purpose of the program is to keep children safe and enrich their time away from school.
Wang says she often feels heavy responsibility in this work. Every summer holiday, China sees many tragic accidents involving youngsters being left alone at home by working parents. “It’s my job to keep them safe and company, and bring them joy,” she says.
Asked if it was difficult to communicate with the children, Wang says, “I used to think that kids don’t know anything and that you almost needed to trick them into listening to you with sweet words and candies. But in fact I realize they have already grown their own personalities, and as long as you treat them like adults, children are actually pretty easy to communicate with.”
A normal volunteer work duration is one week, but Wang was already in her fourth week during the interview. She was hired to work for the program through an internship. Now she is mainly responsible for communications between volunteers and training sessions for new student recruits.
In the past, Wang worked part-time at a bakery and a restaurant. She also did casual assignments like picking people up from the airport and tutoring.
“I work mainly to cover my living expenses, but I also like learning from these jobs to expand my comfort zone and gain more experiences,” she says.
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