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Over the past few years, SCIS students have had the chance to take part in programs to enhance their knowledge, attitudes and understanding. However, the SCIS Service Program takes that a step further and demands that students begin thinking about the global and ethical implications of their actions.
By joining this after-school and extracurricular program, students have the opportunity to show not just their talents, but to introduce music, language or other activities to individuals who don’t have access to these types of programs due to physical or financial limitations.
At SCIS Hongqiao, the Service Program has been growing at a rapid pace. While the Service Ethic encourages middle school and high school students to get involved outside of school activities, students are joining these activities to fulfill the requirements, and realizing that they are enjoying the opportunities to interact with “others” who they might not normally meet in their daily lives.
Students are visiting the Shining Star Blind Orphanage up to four times a week to help develop fine motor skills for blind children. More students are volunteering to visit the Qingpu Migrant School to share games, language lessons and the joy of being a child with the migrant children on Saturdays.
Others are volunteering to work with the ELG inclusion program by learning more about various physical and mental disabilities and how to overcome them. Still other students volunteer to entertain children who are waiting for or recuperating from heart transplants, or senior citizens by performing music or dances for them.
By getting initial experience with service, they are becoming global members of a society that will need the help of everyone to survive.
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