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Annual Report 2016 2016 STEPPING STONES ANNUAL REPORT CONTENTS Introduction to Stepping Stones ................................................ p.7 Staff Team .................................................................................. p.10 Volunteers & Beneficiaries ......................................................... p.11 Activities ...................................................................................... p.13 Corporates & School projects .................................................. p.23 Testimonials ............................................................................... p.25 Impact .......................................................................................... p.26 Sponsors ..................................................................................... p.29 Non-profit Partners ................................................................... p.30 Fundraising Activities .................................................................p.31 Plan for 2017 ............................................................................. p.33 *Photos on pages 1-3, 6, 8-10, 18-22, 26, 28, 31, 33 courtesy of Attila Balogh. Stepping Stones 2016 Annual Report 5 INTRODUCTION to Stepping Stones 2016 was an exciting year for hundreds of volunteers to teach Stepping Stones, as we celebrated thousands of students in more our 10th anniversary, launched than 30 migrant schools and a new brand image and opened community centres in Shanghai three new programs! and Zhejiang province each week, and arranges for individual Stepping Stones’ work started in volunteers and groups to teach October 2006 when long-term English to children in rural expatriate Corinne Hua started Chinese schools, many of whom to organise volunteers to teach are left behind by parents who English at a school for migrant have migrated to the cities for children in Shanghai. The school, work. Stepping Stones’ volunteers in common with many other come from all over the world and schools for rural children, was from all walks of life, including struggling to teach English to their high school students, university students. English is one of the students and company employees. three core subjects in the Chinese school curriculum, and the one Stepping Stones' vision is equal that poses most challenges to access to a quality education and rural children. English ability general welfare for all children in is the biggest differentiator China. between urban and rural Chinese Over the years, Stepping Stones children, perpetuating the gap has diversified into other areas, in educational and employment including a program to provide opportunities. Shanghai benefits free eye care for children. In 2016, from a large English speaking we started three new programs, community, with both locals including an English teacher and expatriates eager for high- training project in three migrant impact volunteering opportunities. schools in Shanghai; a Videolink Stepping Stones was founded to Program, to teach English to left- match this rich resource to the behind children in rural China need in the community. through the internet, and Stepping Stepping Stones now recruits, Up, a program to teach digital trains, supplies and supports literacy and life skills to migrant children in Jiashan (Zhejiang Province). Stepping Stones 2016 Annual Report 7 Objectives — To increase students’ confidence and self-esteem; — To optimise students’ access to better quality education and work opportunities in the future; — To connect communities and to promote inter-cultural understanding; — To promote responsible and high-impact volunteering. Legal Status In December 2013, Stepping Stones was officially registered in Minhang, Shanghai as a non- profit organisation. Stepping Stones’ official Chinese name is 上海闵行区华漕铺路石青少年 发展中心 (Shanghai Minhang District Huacao Pulushi Youth Development Centre). Stepping Stones is subject to the laws of the People’s Republic of China. Stepping Stones is strictly non-political and non-religious. 8 Stepping Stones 2016 Annual Report STAFF TEAM 2016 Our staff team increased from 9 to 13 in 2016, matching the increase in our projects. Founder Corinne Hua continues to lead the team, supported Teaching Progam (CTP) Coordinator. by Program Director Sebastien Carrier. Gao Xiaolan joined us in April to provide extra support to our growing We were sad to lose Anupama Sharma team. at the beginning of the year when she returned to India, as well as Nicki Trinh Former volunteer Ross Pitcairn joined who left for Australia. Sherry Jia took Stepping Stones in summer to run over the Tutoring Program from Nicki, our new English Teacher Training and and kicking off the new Videolink Videolink Programs. Teddy Shi was Program. Lynn Yeh was employed hired as Computer Teacher for our first as an intern before becoming the new Stepping Up Program. Tutoring Program Coordinator. Gloria Han continued to manage the Morgan Banaszek stepped into I Care Program, Wang Cui continued Anupama’s role as Training Manager, as Fundraising and Communications and began managing the rural tours. Manager, and Eva Hua proceeded to Sally Wangsawijaya succeeded from look after our finances. Gao Xiaolan Lawrence Chow in fall as Classroom assisted with HR duties until volunteer Dora Havassy took a new part-time role as HR Manager at the end of the year. Fro m Left t o Right: Back R ow: Do Iv ra, Lyn eta, Co n, Morg rinne, R an, Eva, 10 Fron oss, Ted Stepping Stones 2016 Annual Report t Row L dy, Sall eft: Seb y Front R astien, ow Righ Cui t: Xiaola n, Sherr y, Gloria VOLUNTEERS & BENEFICIARIES 2016 In 2016, across all Stepping Stones' Volunteers also assisted English teaching programs (including with diverse activities such as regular teaching programs, individual training, curriculum development, volunteer placements, corporate marketing, IT, accounting, events, and rural tours), 1,460 fundraising and photography. volunteer teachers donated a total of 6,795 English lessons (1 lesson ~ On behalf of our beneficiaries, ~40 minutes), increasing from 6,254 Stepping Stones sincerely thanks lessons in 2015. Thanks to all our all of our volunteers, without whom dedicated volunteers, around 15,246 our work would not be possible. migrant and left-behind children benefited from Stepping Stones' English teaching activities in 2016! Number of Beneficiaries 15,246 Children (English Teaching Programs) Two new teaching programs were Children (I Care Project) started in 2016, Stepping Up Digital 6,105 Literacy Program and English Teacher 172 Children (Stepping Up) Training Program. 15 volunteers 41 Teachers (English Teacher Training) supported our professional trainers in delivering 171 digital literacy and life- skill lessons, and eight teacher training Number of Volunteers sessions. 172 migrant students in 1,475Volunteers Shanghai and Zhejiang province and 41 English teachers from 3 migrant Number of Lessons Taught schools in Shanghai respectively by Stepping Stones benefited from these programs. 6,795 English Lessons Lastly, 6,105 migrant children 171 Digital Literacy & Life-skill Lessons benefited from Stepping Stones' Teacher Training Sessions I Care Project in 2016. They 8 were given eye examinations and free treatment as required. Through Number of Children this project 971 children received Receiving Spectacles a pair of spectacles and 7 children 971 Children successfully underwent eye surgery! Stepping Stones 2016 Annual Report 11 ACTIVITIES 2016 1. WEEKLY ENGLISH TeacHING Program During the Spring and Autumn School (Baoshan district); Xujing semesters of 2016, Stepping School (Qingpu district); and Stones had around 350 volunteers Educating Girls of Rural China. regularly teaching to more than 5,000 migrant students in the Our program at Yongmei School below-mentioned schools and (Minhang district) and New community centers, reaching a Citizen Life Centre (Changqing total of 5,121 English lessons. Road, Pudong) came to an end, but we launched 4 new programs Classroom Teaching Program in Shanghai at Liuyinglu School (CTP) (Hongkou district), New Citizen Life Centre Tanzhong Road, Since 2006, teaching oral English Jiwang Community Centre and lessons to migrant children in Shibojiayuan (Pudong district). a traditional classroom setting We are also grateful to Teaching has been Stepping Stones’ core Nomad for their continuous program. Our CTP continued volunteering participation at at Huabo Lixing Hang School Liuyinglu and Yangdong school in (both the Jiwang and Huacao 2016 campuses), Huahong School, Zhenxing School, Wenhe School Meanwhile, thanks to the and Sunflower Centre (Minhang sponsorship from Australian district); New Citizen Life Centre telecoms company Optus and Guijing Village, Tangsi School ÏDKIDS FOUNDATION, we have and Wanliao School (Pudong expanded our Classroom Teaching district); Shanghai Young Bakers Program in Xixiang Guangyuan (Putuo district); Tangshan Road School and started the program in School (Hongkou district); Jiuqian Nanshu school, both are migrant Community Centre, Shanhai schools located in Jiashan county, School and Yangdong Zhejiang province. Stepping Stones’ volunteers taught English in these schools to more than 1,000 students every week. Stepping Stones 2016 Annual Report 13 After School Tutoring Program (ASP) Launched in 2012, the ASP continued to thrive as 279 volunteers, mostly high school students, joined to provide small- group tutoring to around 329 migrant children on weekends. In total, our volunteers gave 1,948 English tutoring sessions throughout 2016.
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