Youth Ambassadors voluntary work is available at Manchester Chinese Centre and outside our Centre
English Language Corner was established in March 2006. Its aim is to provide a place for new migrants to meet and learn. New migrants can often be afraid in a strange land, facing language barriers and unable to communicate with the locals, they may long to find true friendship and feel completely accepted. As globalisation blurs national borders, seeking work abroad is becoming increasingly common. It is important for the British to learn to see things from the perspectives of foreign labourers and immigrants. Our volunteers would like to learn and help the new migrants in their needs. The Language Corner was established to help migrants cope with their day to day communication English Language skills supported by our Youth Ambassadors and Jewish Women's Group. This programme allows volunteers to teach the new migrants English and build friendships. We believe this will help migrants overcome the language barrier and start a new life in England as well as making friends in a new environment.
Teaching English to the local community
One of the main purposes of our Centre is to make migrants feel more welcome and to allow them to adapt to their new lives in England more easily. Here we provide ESOL English lessons and Life in UK citizenship tests which can help them with citizenship and allow them to develop skills in communicating with the English locals. All Centre users will achieve complete acceptance and have the opportunity to meet new people in similar situations. English Corner (Tuesday and Thursday) and Chinese and English Exchange Corner (Sat 1-3pm & Sunday 11-1pm) are also available in partnerships with high-schools so both volunteers and students can gain experience and knowledge.
Community Translation Service
Workers' Educational Association (WEA) provides teachers to teach in Youth Community Interpreting Course during the summer holiday. This programme allows young volunteers to help the local Manchester communities as interpreters. In return, they can improve or learn a foreign language as well as gaining work experience. When volunteers reach 18 years of age, they can register as interpreters working for the council or as an interpreting agent.Please see Community Interpreting Course for more information.
Voluntary work at the Manchester Science Museum
Between the 16th to 20th Feb 2009 our youth Ambassadors worked in the Manchester Science Museum as volunteers to teach children and parents the science of the kite-flying and of making Chinese Kites as decorated art. This was a very successful project, bringing lots of fun and joy for the children and visitors to the museum. |
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Organised "Chinese Community Exhibition" at the Manchester Central Library
From 4th March to 4th April 2009, The Manchester Youth Ambassadors have successfully completed the Manchester Chinese Community exhibition at The Manchester Central Library. This project was organised by Bury Grammar School for Girls, Sandy Tsin and Loreto College and Eleanor Wong. Information was provided by Manchester Grammar School for Boys, Altrincham Grammar School for Girls, Danielle Haslam...etc.More information please click Manchester Chinese Archive
Building Manchester Chinese Achieve
Youth Ambassadors can help out in our Archive work, which is already established in Manchester Chinese Centre and Manchester Central Library. We collect Archive material from the Chinese community. We aim to help the Chinese community to understand their own cultural and family history and to keep record of Chinese development in the United Kingdom.
- Collect Chinese Archive materials.
- Help the Chinese to keep a family history.
- Help to build an internationally linked website.
- Recording Chinatown’s development.
2009 volunteer programme of work in China
Volunteers will be helping out in orphanages and at Tsinghai University. At the orphanages, they will be helping the children plant and look after the crops (their food source) and they will also be teaching English in the summer camp which is organised by Tsinghai University. Prior to this, volunteers have organised a fundraising event which is an international project for the Yunnan Foundation for Poverty Alleviation. This was formed under the leadership and support from the Peoples' Republic of China, Manchester Chinese consulate, the community of Manchester Chinatown and the UK British Chinese communities. We want to be sure that the funds raised are spent effectively and are targeted at developments which will improve the education and health of China's most deprived communities such as Jinping. Many of the children in this region are from poor families and are unable to support their day-to-day lives and by improving their health and education, we can help to raise their standard of living. With the funds generated from this event, we hope to kick- start two projects which we believe will make a difference to these communities.
One of our projects is to provide portable water to the community, such as Jinping. Currently, they share the same water supply as the animals which they raise and as such, illnesses and diseases are quickly spread from animal to humans. This threat to human life is worsened when you take into consideration that what the locals call a hospital, we would call a first aid kit. Our aim is to improve the quality of the local water supply so that it reaches the International Water Environment Standard.