Invited by the Volunteer Team of SUSTC, Zhang Jun, Chen Wanping, Huang Zhengqiang and other 4 teachers of the Training Department of Shenzhen Volunteer Union delivered a spectacular and lively new volunteer training class for more than 300 staff and students of SUSTC in a lecture room in the evening on March 12, 2014. This is the very first training SUSTC Volunteer Team received after its birth.
As a new member of Shenzhen Volunteer Union, SUSTC Volunteer Team is very young as it was officially established in December, 2013 from its predecessor “SUSTC Public Welfare Organization” founded in 2012. The Team, so far, has 366 members: 330 students and 36 staff. In the past two years, SUSTC Volunteer Team has reaped great social influence by regularly organizing students to join activities like free blood donation, money-raising for charity, contest services, voluntary teaching, care for lone and disabled children and charity sales of used books. And it was given the title of “Excellent Volunteer Team”.
To guide and support itself for a healthy and well-regulated implementation of volunteer activities and improve the long-term mechanism of volunteer service and activity mechanism, the young SUSTC Volunteer Team decided to have training for its members regularly under the help of Shenzhen Volunteer Union.
The teachers started the training by “singing” a song Your Accompany with sign language, which aroused the audience’s interest to learn it, definitely warming up the class. Following that, Chen Wanping introduced the history and current status of Shenzhen Volunteer Union and the basic requirements for its members from what it is, what it does, has and gives, and furthermore, she told the Union’s growth story with her own experience and learning, increasing people’s understanding of its significance and value. During the meeting, two of our students Hu Wenxuan and Wan Yi also shared their reason to be part of SUSTC Volunteer Team which resonated with a lot from the audience. In the final session, everyone stood up as encouraged by the host to make a solemn oath and announce they would proudly be a member among Shenzhen volunteers by saying their names out.
Motivated by the senior volunteers’ sense of responsibility and their devotion as well as the valuable positive energy they delivered, many staff and students, after the training, expressed their willingness to join the voluntary service team to make their contribution to the “City of Volunteers”.
Activity Introduction:
Shenzhen Volunteer Union, the first volunteer organization in mainland China, was initiated by the Communist Youth League Shenzhen Municipal Committee and constituted by people from all circles of life who’d like to provide services for the youth and society. Since its establishment, the Union, under the care of Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee and Shenzhen Government, the guidance of the Communist Youth League Shenzhen Municipal Committee and with strong support of many social sectors, has made substantial development and remarkable achievements along with the leap of Shenzhen following its tenet of “serving the society and promoting civilization” and by spreading its service spirit of “participating, helping, devoting and progressing” and its win-win concept of “helping yourself by helping others” and “enjoying the fragrance after sending roses to others”. Now it has stepped out a development road of volunteers with Chinese characters.
