By Guillaume Gauvain | Founder
BETHEL CHINA GLOBAL GIVING REPORT
March 2023
Love is Blind Bethel’s six Chinese centers fall under our Love is Blind project umbrella. The centers currently provide care, specialized education, vocational training and medical services to 130 blind or visually impaired children (the majority of whom are orphans). The children's medical care includes annual health checks, optometry visits, dental care and surgery when needed .
The Bethel School has pioneered a multidimensional curriculum that provides each child with their own Individualized Education Plan (IEP), which serves as a foundation for their critical early development. The school provides classes in English and Chinese Braille, conversational English and Chinese, Mathematics, science, computer technology, mobility skills, daily life skills, etc.
Beijing (started in 2003) Supporting 21 Children
Zhengzhou (2011) Supporting 28 Children
Jiaozuo (2016) Supporting 10 Children
Nanjing (2016) Supporting 8 Children
Jingdezhen (2019) Supporting 10 Children
Shangrao (2021) Supporting 53 Children
1. The “Love is Blind” project has been opened normally since the Spring Festival. With all the prior shutdowns due to COVID we are glad that things seem to be taking a turn for a more normal routine.
2. The “1 on 1” learning group project is being carried out successfully. For now we have one group for natural sciences, 2 groups for German, 7 groups for mathematics, 17 groups for writing, 217 groups for English, and 2,440 hours of reading services has been completed
3. We held an interactive activity with Alipay on March 5th
4. “The backpack project” has been launched and we have started to acquire supplies. The project is designed to come up with a school bag suitable for visually impaired children and its learning equipment, and supporting training content including directional walking, pre-Braille skills, Braille skills, matching of low vision AIDS, etc. These bags are given to the visually impaired students who are about to enter the first grade of primary school.
5. Teachers training: new teachers in the early intervention center in Shenzhen will be trained from July to August.
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