Category Archives: PTE News
Welcome back! LVS children
The graduation of the first LVS class was only months ago. Meeting the score of new students, we can’t help but feeling getting older already as they remain the same youthful ages of 16-22.
They love internet. They communicate more with text-messaging than in real life. They are most interested in subjects about romance and love [...]
Teacher Training Program
May 5, 2010. Photos from Minhoo.
A journalist from China’s foremost English Newspaper. An auditor from ‘big four’ accounting firm. An intelligent software programer. A trilingual translator and social enterprise entrepreneur. A senior manager of corporate culture. A talented textile engineer. None has exactly overlapping areas over than the district they live and work at. And [...]
Health Classes for Chaoyang and Changping Migrant School Students
May-5-2010, Beijing. Videos filmed edited by Volunteer Sun Jing. Photos from Minhoo.
Starting at the end of March, every Thursday and Friday afternoons, PTE staffers along with a few PTE volunteers travel to Dongba at Chaoyang and Pingxiwangfu at Changping District respectively, to teach 2 classes of 11-14 year-olds about general health issues and HIV prevention. As an [...]
HIV Prevention Course taught in Biology Class in Guangxi
Dec. 16th, 2009, students from Peihong Minzu Middle School in Nanning, Guangxi Province received their first lesson on HIV/AIDS prevention in their biology classes. Biology teacher Li Ting has adopted the HIV/AIDS education curriculum ( the series targetting 6-8 graders) provided by PTE and distributred the teaching materials in the department. The four-session curriculum covers facts about AIDS [...]
Volunteers teaching at Sanhe, Hebei
Around 4:30 p.m. on November 30, 2009, 12 volunteers from Beijing University of Chemical Technology arrived at Yanjiao Middle School, City of Sanhe, Hebei province. After receiving a 3-hours training led by PTE’s program manager Minhoo the previous day, they each acted as a volunteer teacher facing a classroom of 7th graders, equipped with teaching syllabus and relevant materials [...]
TTT workshops for Red Wing Projects
Red Wing projects is one of the best HIV/AIDS education projects organized by any student organization in China we’ve participated or observed. Every year since 2008, HIV/AIDS prevention being the main focus of the project, international Aiesecers as well as local Chinese members come together to study knowledge of HIV/AIDS and learn about teaching skills [...]
22nd World AIDS Day – Universal Access and Human Rights
Today is the 21st Worlds AIDS Day.
Started on 1st December 1988, World AIDS Day is about raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. The World AIDS Day theme for 2009 is ‘Universal Access and Human Rights’. World AIDS Day is important in reminding people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are [...]
Chaoping project Concluded
Taking bus rides for about 2 hours on Wednesday afternoons, walking past rows of shabby houses and through thick veils of sand stirred up from piles scattered along sides of the road, volunteer teachers from a Beijing-based university would finally get to Xin Long (meaning New Dragon in Chinese) migrant school in Chaoping district to [...]
New workshops starting in Changping
From 21st October, PTE will begin a series of workshops in migrants schools in Changping. These students (aged between 14 and 16) will receive comprehensive HIV/AIDS education. Furthermore, PTE will provide Train-to-teach workshops for 8 volunteers who will continue to provide HIV/AIDS information to the children after the workshops have finished.
800 new students receive HIV/AIDS education
On 17th September PTE was involved in HIV/AIDS workshops at the University of Keji Zhiye Xueyuan, Yanqing, Beijing. In these workshops over 800 freshman students received HIV/AIDS education. The workshop focused on facts about HIV and AIDS and prevention, as well as a lecture on stigma and discrimination.