During the summer vacation of 2013, Yizumi recruited 30 staff members’ children aged 7-14 to take part in a 3-day summer camp organized by Yizumi’s Committee for the Wellbeing of the Youth.

Day One:
1. Opening Ceremony:
At the opening ceremony held on August 10, the head of summer camp indicated in her speech that the event was to enrich the children’s experiences, enhance their ability of communication and problem solving, provide a platform for parent-child communication and care about the staff members and their family.

2. Developmental Courses for Children

Form a Team: Children learned to take care of and trust their friends and overcome difficulty together. 

Fish with Nets: Children learned about teamwork and understood the meaning of “one team (‘the net’), one goal (‘fishing’) ".

Insect Crawl: Children learned to follow the rhythm of a team and help each other to go further.

Cross the Bridge: One team member closed his eye and led by the team-mate to go across the “bridge”. Team members had to trust each other.

Hope of life: A team member had to step over the rope with the help of his team members. Children learned about team spirit.

Express your emotion: Children expressed their feelings towards the story they heard by painting. They learned to indentify, describe and adjust their emotion exactly.

3. Parent-child Psychological Guidance
The children also visited the workplace of their parents to know more about their painstaking efforts and learn to care about parents.
In the evening, parents and children received psychological counseling together. They were asked to write down words that they wished but did not dare to say. Through this activity, parents and children knew what each other cared about. In addition, children learn to appreciate and understand their parents.

Day Two:

In the morning, children visited Guangdong Science Center where there were a large number of hi-tech exhibits to acquire knowledge of science and technology through practice and participation.

In the afternoon, children visited Shunde Exhibition Center to know more the history, culture and development of the city they are living in.

Later, children arrived at Shunde Silk Museum where they saw large old textile machinery and how the silkworm egg hatches. All these are symbolic of Shunde’s agriculture of mulberry fish pond and the historic silk industry. 

Day Three:
On the last day, children went to Wu Weiquan Sheltered Workshop, Shunde’s first organization providing complete and high-quality career training and rehabilitation service for the disabled. Children were expected to know more about the life of the disadvantaged group, learn to care about and respect others and strengthen their love for life.

In the afternoon, the summer camp came to an end. Many children missed their activities in the past three days and said they learned something outside school.