Kids to Kids Internation - Welcome to Shantou
I received an email from Amy who is from the U.S. but currently return to Shantou. Amy, I hope you won’t mind if I post your email here.
This time I brought with me the hopes of many little American children. A hope to be friends with Chinese kids, particularly those living in poverty. So I brought with me school supplies, picture books and a fierce desire to find some schools willing to begin lasting relationships with schools in the US. This is more than just a little donation; it’s about kids forming relationships in this globalized world, we adults just facilitate that. This is the idea of Kids to Kids international www.ktki.org.
Coincidentally the email came on the same that I attended John Wood’s talk in my company. For those of you don’t know John Wood, you can read about him on here and here, or watch a video here. I very much admire his motivate and his believe to make the world a better place through education and help to our next generation that really needs help. Although I wouldn’t consider Shantou is a city in poverty, there are still some areas that are lack of basic education. Thanks Amy for bringing the books to Shantou and also let me know about this project. I agree that it’s “more than just a little donation; it’s about kids forming relationships in this globalized world”. I left Shantou when I was 18 to see the world, and I know exactly what she mean by this.
So here is my part of contribution in this blog. I will also write a post in Ezeem forum in Chinese to see if there are some local schools or charity bodies that are willing to help with this project.
Richard.H posted on October 28th, 2008 under: Shantouer | Tag: education, ktki |
Hello…Just wanna say “Hi” for all of Shantouer!
Let me introduce myself first. I’m Jubby from Thailand and plan to visit my grandma & gradpa their. We moved to Thailand for 25 years ago and never get back to Shantou since my dad said ” we need to visit them and let them know we are very well here!”
Oh…for that messages make me think about it and try to find which way that I can meet them?
Right now, I & my niece plan to surprise all of them on this Chinese New Year! and bring the message to all of them as well….
Now, I needs your kind help or advise. Which way we can take to Shantou if we’re in Shenzhen (bus/train….or orthers?) and how long?
Please starting from Shenzhen airport…. We’ll arrive Shenzhen around 11.00 pm (23/2/09) and will stay overnight at shenzhen first, is ti good idea to do like that?
Many thanks for all advise
Hello Jubby, it’s very nice for you to do so. Regarding your question, you can refer to this post
http://myshantou.net/from-hong-kong-to-shantou.html
Nice to see that Shantou has some Western influx,even if it is slight. My and I (and our children) are looking for a small city to look into about moving to China. We were originally thinking about Fuzhou, but perhaps Shantou could be a good place for us.
Are there English schools in the city? What about Chinese universities? We are educators and can also teach English and cultural competency etc… What are the prospects for us there?
Comments?
should say “my wife and I”
Hi Shane. By the size Shantou is considered as a media-size city in China. There is Shantou University (http://stu.edu.cn/eng/about.asp) in Shantou and also a number of English schools. One of the bloggers, Maggie, was teaching in Shantou before.
It’s certainly an exciting city to visit and have a short stay. I would recommend to go and have a look before you decide to move and settle down though. But the food in Shantou is one of the top in Southern Chinese cuisine, as far as to me
Wish you will find it interesting when you are there.