Current Projects

The English Learning Corner

With the rapid economic development, the wealth gap in China has been widening in recent decades.  It is estimated that there are close to 180,000 unprivileged children in Guangdong Provincealone: 39,000 orphans, 26,000 single-parent children, 95,000 street beggars and orphans in villages, and 14,000 children of incarcerated parents.  This number is daunting when we consider the consequences behind it.  It is evident from previous research that poverty-striven children often have lower self-confidence, are more likely to fail in school, and are less likely to get a good paying job than their middle-class counterparts.  Many of these children experience extreme trauma and difficulties because of poverty and neglect.  These vulnerable children need additional help to protect them from harm and to safeguard their rights and privileges. We help them have better emotional and educational development in order to break through the vicious cycle of poverty.

House of Learning is a Hong Kong non-profit-making organization, with its mission to help the underprivileged and underachieved children and youths, has planned to work with Women’s Federation of Guangdong Province to give these vulnerable children a place to enrich their minds and spirit. 

As an extension of the mobile libraries project, we plan to help these underprivileged children by setting up an English Learning Corner (ELC) in Guangdong Province. Children will learn under a whole-brain learning approach, and be enriched by English through this Learning Corner.