Media Interpretation of the West Dream Club of Xiamen University

Morning News (Reporter Yan) Yesterday afternoon, 20 Xiamen University students boarded the train to An and embarked on the journey of "Xiamen University helps the West Dream"; This afternoon, another 2 1 Xiamen University students are leaving, and their destination is Wangmo, Guizhou. This is the second teaching activity held by Dream Club in the west of Xiamen University. 4 1 Team members will go to poverty-stricken counties in Gansu, Ningxia and Guizhou for a short-term assistance activity for 20 days.

Founded in 2006, the West Dream Club of Xiamen University organized 14 members to carry out western education activities for the first time at the end of August 2007. In just 15 days, they brought two cars of clothes and a car of books to the children in the poor mountainous areas in the west, and brought back the information of 108 poor students. After returning to Xiamen, with the help of enthusiastic people, they continuously send about 5,000 yuan to the west every month to help these children study.

In 2008, the scale of teaching teams in western China expanded, one went to Wangmo, Guizhou, and the other went to Huining, Haiyuan and Gansu, Ningxia. The team members will bring two tons of clothes and more than 2,000 books, as well as four boxes of medicines donated by Xiamen Red Cross Society and 50,000 RMB donated by Xiamen Wellcome Group to the children in the western poverty-stricken areas. In addition to teaching, donation and social investigation, they will also carry out local medical and health surveys and build libraries. The team members expressed the hope that through such activities, more information about the western region will be transmitted, so that people can further understand and pay attention to the western region.

Xiamen University 14 students will study in Guizhou at their own expense.

(2006-08-2 1)

(Reporter Lin Guotai intern Chen Kun) On August 27th, four students from Xiamen University/KLOC-0 will visit children in poverty-stricken areas in Guizhou at their own expense with 8,000 yuan and a batch of clothes and school supplies to carry out teaching and social investigation activities in the local area. They call this activity "Fantasy Westward Journey".

Ximeng high school sprouted.

The activity was initiated by the West Dream Club of Xiamen University, which was initiated by four high school students who were admitted to Xiamen University together.

Xiao Wang, one of the founders, told reporters that in his sophomore year, he had a good time with five other students, six of whom became "girlfriends". Once, a "best friend" wrote an article about Tibet in the class diary. Since then, the six of them often get together to talk about the customs and poverty in the west.

Later, four of the six "girlfriends" were admitted to Xiamen University. They began to think about whether they can build a society that pays attention to the west and do something useful for the poor children there. In May 2006, with the approval of the school, the Western Dream Society was established. This is the first club in Xiamen University with the theme of serving the west, with the aim of "doing what you can for the west" and gathering young people who are enthusiastic about public welfare and western development, care about and enter the west. At present, the association has more than 100 members.

Pick out the good things and donate them

In June, the West Dream Society organized a donation activity with the theme of "Cheering for the children in the west" in Zhangzhou Campus. Club members and more than 65,438+000 volunteers who joined spontaneously went to more than 4,000 dormitories on campus to collect items donated by students.

Hao Wei, a Japanese major, said that she was deeply moved by this fundraising activity. Many students rummaged through the closet, picked out good things and donated them, and some of them were more expensive items, such as VCD, music star, walkman, repeater, computer USB flash drive and so on.

Some donations were not suitable for children in the west, so the club had a charity sale at school and raised more than 8,000 yuan of love money. Besides, there are two cars of clothes and a lot of books. Students decided to use the opportunity of social practice in summer vacation to give the money and materials to children in poverty-stricken areas in Guizhou.

Pay for your own room and board.

The association published the news of "Dream Journey to the West" on the campus network, and recruited 14 volunteers to carry out donation, teaching and fund-raising activities in Wangmo County, Guizhou Province. In just a few days, more than 100 people signed up. Huang Shaoshui, a graduate student in the journalism department of Xiamen University, said that this is a very meaningful thing and can call on more people to pay attention to the west. However, when he saw the post, the registration period had passed, so he tried his best to convince the organizer and signed up as he wished.

From August 27th to September13rd, the "Fantasy Journey to the West" will go to Wang Le Town, Wangmo County, Kulishu Village, Haimengzhai, a revolutionary base, and local primary and secondary schools, and walk through the hinterland of Mashan which is not open to traffic for two days.

It is estimated that the round-trip travel expenses and accommodation will add up to more than 1000 yuan, all of which are paid by volunteers themselves. In addition, they must face challenges in daily life, health and transportation.

In addition to donating money to teach, volunteers also hope to collect information about poor children and provide them to caring people.

(Source: Xiamen Evening News)

They brought back the information of 108 top students.

Shocked by poor students in Guizhou, Xiamen University students continue to seek help from caring people and enterprises in Xiamen.

Date of Channel Network: 2006- 10- 12

Poor children in mountainous areas have to work since childhood. (Photo courtesy of Western Dream Society)

Ximeng Club of Xiamen University held a large-scale photo exhibition in Zhangzhou Campus. On the first day of the exhibition, 18 Xiamen University students paired up with poor students in Wangmo and Mashan, Guizhou. As of yesterday, a total of 42 poor students have formed a helping relationship with Xiamen University students.

Many students formed a "helping alliance" to help a poor student in the form of a dormitory and several good friends. They all say that a few people can help a poor student in one month and bring hope to children in the west.

At the same time of teaching in Guizhou, the students of the West Dream Society of Xiamen University and the accompanying Xiamen citizens also left a deep "Xiamen impression" on Dashan with their words and deeds.

14 people live in 70 yuan for one night.

On August 27th, the "Dream Tour of the West", composed of the West Dream Tour societies and citizens' representatives, set out from Xiamen with the funds and materials raised, and started a half-month tour of teaching in Mashan, Guizhou.

On August 29th, "Dream of the West" arrived in Guiyang. They found a humble hotel near the railway station. The only advantage is that it is cheap. Price of a bed 10 yuan.

Although I have been prepared psychologically, the conditions are far beyond the expectations of the players. After bargaining, the hotel owner reluctantly agreed to let the players share a bed. 14 people only need 70 yuan for one night. That night, the players stayed up almost all night, and the next day they found themselves bleeding from bed bugs.

If you save more travel expenses, you can donate more poor children.

When they arrived in Mashan, some of the team members lived in the school warehouse and some slept in the kitchen of the local teacher's house. The food is the same as that of the locals. There is no oil star in the dish, and there are few vegetables.

There is no river in Mashan, and there are only three faucets where the township government is located, all of which are from the water cellar where the mountain springs gather. If you want to take a bath, you can only wait until there is no one in the middle of the night and take a bath in the open air with cold water. Male players are easy to deal with, and female players will have a lot of trouble.

I used to live a luxurious life.

In order to investigate the local living conditions and the reasons for children dropping out of school, the team members were divided into four groups and went to the farmers' homes in Hongyan, Guangming, Xingfu and Huashan villages together with the teachers of Mashan Nine-year School.

The farthest group went to Hongyan village. They leave school at 2 pm and walk back to school until 1 am.

The team members said that it was actually not a road, but a path out of the mountains. About half a meter is a steep cliff. When going uphill and downhill, you must catch the thatch on the mountain. A player accidentally slipped and fell, and his body was only a few centimeters away from the cliff. ...

Four teams visited 50 farmers to encourage children who dropped out of school to overcome difficulties and return to class.

The team members teach students of all grades and tell them about the world beyond the mountains.

"Dream Journey to the West" donated 2,500 yuan in grants and school supplies to Mashan Nine-year Compulsory Education School, and 5,000 yuan in grants to students with excellent academic performance in Wangmo junior and senior high schools.

"When the fifth-grade boys bowed their heads and said,' I don't want to go home, 5 yuan is too expensive to go home once', I suddenly felt that my previous life was extravagant to death." A team member said.

Go to school for 8 hours every day.

Wangmo County in Guizhou Province is a national poverty-stricken county, and Mashan Township in this county is an extremely poor place with extremely bad natural environment. The local people said, "The soil is like pearls, the water is as expensive as oil, and there are big stones everywhere."

The members of the "Dream Journey to the West" learned that due to the scattered villages, no roads were built in the villages, and the farthest students had to walk eight hours by mountain road to and from school.

Yang Ting, a girl from a nine-year school in Mashan Township, lives in the most remote mountainous area of Mashan. Her parents are almost sixty years old. There are five people in the family, and the per capita annual income is only 400 yuan. Because the family is holding the "Year Pig" to pay the tuition, during the Chinese New Year, her family can only eat vegetables. When she was in primary school, she got up at 5 o'clock every morning, climbed mountains and walked to school for more than three hours. There is a mountain road that takes half an hour to walk, only half a meter wide, and there are cliffs on the side. We should seize the thatch on the mountain and March hard. But her grades are the best.

"I will succeed"

A team member told reporters that a Miao child had been unable to speak Chinese well due to birth defects. The players asked him to say a few words in Miao language. He insisted on speaking in Chinese, and his voice was so vague that he could hardly distinguish his pronunciation, but the content of that sentence deeply shocked the players: "I will succeed!" " "

Everyone gave him warm applause. "Who will doubt the future of this dreamy child?"

The team members realized that it was their bounden duty to help these poor children. They collected a total of 108 students with excellent academic performance, hoping to find help from caring people and enterprises in Xiamen.

The citizen representative accompanying her is a retired teacher, who is trying to raise teaching AIDS and learning materials for children in mountainous areas. A boss doing business in Xiang 'an contacted the West Dream Club. He said that a few hundred dollars is insignificant to him, but it may change the lives of children in mountainous areas.

Caring people can log on to the western dream website to inquire about the information of the aided students or contact the person in charge of the club.

Reporter Lin Guotai