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Seminar: what to expect in Adolescence

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On June 3rd, your generous giving through CWEF supported a unique lecture for students on coping with the physical and emotional changes of adolescence. The presentation aimed to help adolescent girls understand themselves as well as improve their mental health and life skills.

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  • Time: June 3rd, 2025 
  • Venue: Wumeng Township Central School 
  • Participants: 100 girls in Grades 4-6, Teacher Shao Jiafang, Principal Li of Wumeng Township Central School, and the teaching team 

Main Events

1. Principal’s Speech – The principal emphasized the significance of mental health in adolescence. He encouraged students to actively participate in solving the problems they face, and to approach adolescent changes with a confident and healthy attitude. 

2. Teacher’s Lecture – kindly explained common changes in adolescence:

  • Physical changes like breast development, appearance of pubic and armpit hair, the patterns of a menstrual cycle etc.
  • Psychological changes like causes of emotional fluctuations, developing a positive self-image etc.

3. Interactive Q&A: students overcame their shyness and became eager to ask questions.  

4. Guided simulations: students practiced coping skills through simulated conversations / scenarios

5. Growth Oath: Students participated in an oath to accept physical and emotional changes and strengthen their self-identity.

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Results

  • Questions that were previously too embarrassing to ask were answered.  Students learned how to cope with adolescent changes. As one student mentioned, “After the lecture, I know how to face physical changes, and the stone in my heart has finally dropped.”
  • Students gained a more scientific understanding of adolescent physical and psychological changes, reducing ther fear and confusion and teaching them how to have the right attitude when coping with challenges. 

Summary 

This lecture provided valuable knowledge and reflections to girls at Wumeng Township Central School in Yunnan, China. The activity not only provided scientific knowledge but also emotional care.  Students will face the changes of adolescence more confidently.

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classes you gave to migrant children in kunming

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Due to rapid urbanization, the population of migrant children in Kunming has increased significantly. Most migrant parents hold temporary jobs, leaving them little time to care for their children. The lack of family education has led to numerous challenges. These migrant children lack necessary daily care. This imbalance often leads to parent-child conflicts which causes children to struggle in other relationships as well. More seriously, some children do extreme things like drop out of school or run away from home.

This is why, through your generosity, CWEF supported life education classes for 250 students and 20 teachers at Bohua school in Kunming City during 2024.   Here are some examples of the many topics covered in the class: 

1. “Stereotypes” 

Target Group: 5th grade students 

Content: 

  • Through riddles and interactive discussions, students learned to recognize and distinguish stereotypes. 
  • The course aimed to help students understand the impact of stereotypes on evaluating others and learn to avoid stereotypes based on gender, region, and other characteristics

Key Quotes: 

  • “Stereotypes make us overlook individual differences, forming preconceived notions.” 
  • “Do not judge others’ abilities or personalities based on gender, region, or other characteristics.”

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2. “I Am a Media Assessment Expert” 

Target Group: 5th grade students 

Content: 

  • Through interactive questions and video screenings, students learned to assess media information and avoid succumbing to bad influences
  • The course aimed to improve students’ media literacy and cultivate their ability to think independently. 

Key Quotes: 

  • “Media information is everywhere; we must learn to identify the values in it.” 
  • “Do not blindly follow media propaganda; learn to think independently.”

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3. “Your Special Value” 

Target Group: 2nd & 3rd grade students 

Content: 

  • Through a picture book about tomato plants, students learned that everyone has unique value and strengths. 
  • The course used questions and interactive games to guide students to reflect on their own unique qualities and encourage them to have confidence.

Key Quotes: 

  • “Both tall and short tomato plants have their own strengths; everyone is unique.” 
  • “No matter what kind of person you are, you have your own value and deserve respect.” 

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THANK YOU for your heart for migrant children in China and for supporting the mental and relational health of both the children and their parents through your generosity!!  250 children are better equipped to face the big wide world BECAUSE OF YOU!

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How to Prevent Toxic Bystanding and Bullying

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How common is school bullying? Over half of the 36,000 participants in a school-bullying survey conducted by Tencent reported being bullied at school. Whereas one-fourth of survey participants admitted to bullying others. 

Because of the generosity of people like you who donate to our programs, CWEF and its nonprofit partners can host mental health classes for students in the Chinese province of Yunnan. In the hopes of protecting more students from the distress and dangers of bullying, the teachers of our mental health courses taught students all about this important issue!

The instructors shared real and heart-breaking stories about children that had been so badly bullied at school that they considered killing themselves. Through these stories, students could feel the deep and sometimes irreparable pain their actions can bring to someone else. 

From there, the teachers talked about all the types of bullying: physical, verbal, social, and gender-based; and they gave the students clear examples of what these different types of bullying look like. Finally, they educated the students on how to protect themselves by avoiding playing alone far from other people, for example, or by telling someone in authority about the bullying when it occurs.  

In all of this, the teachers emphasized how watching someone get bullied but doing nothing to stop it is just as harmful as being a bully yourself. Students were admonished to take courage, do the right thing, and stand up for others in need! Through this course, students gained a deeper understanding of school bullying, grasped concrete ways to protect themselves, and realized that they should not ignore bullying but stand up against it.  

THANK YOU for caring so deeply for the children of China! And THANK YOU for demonstrating that heart by giving generously through CWEF to make life-changing classes like these possible for children from rural areas. You are equipping young people to become strong servant leaders in their own communities! 

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