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In November, RCEF Intern and VP07 volunteer Jikky Lam went to Dayang Village, Henan Province (河南大杨村) to investigate the impact of the Volunteer Program 2007 on the children. She used a variety of qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods. Here is what she wrote during her stay:

“Until now I’ve been doing written questionnaires with three grades (5th, 6th and 7th) and I have one grade to go (4th). I attended some classes in the higher grades and interviewed several students about their Volunteer Program experience. Most of the students liked Health and Community Research best. They like Health because it taught them knowledge about how to stay healthy, how to prevent sickness, the germs on your hands when you don’t wash them regularly, and what your lungs will look like when you smoke. Some of the things they already knew, for example that smoking is bad for your health, but they didn’t know why, what it does to your body. Now they know that “smoking makes your lungs bigger” and that “it kills the cells in your body”. They especially remember the pictures that were shown to them. Students hope that they will learn more about Health in the future because they think it is important but they don’t learn it at school.Many children liked Community Research because they could go outside and interview people at the local market. When I asked students in the questionnaire what they thought their biggest progress was, many wrote that they had more courage to speak up now, to raise their hands during class, or to talk to strangers. Attached you find an essay by a female student who is in the 6th grade now at Dayang primary school. This essay was homework for Chinese class (in her regular school, not the Volunteer Program), the topic was to write an essay about ‘ 暑假里的一件事‘. Please see below what she wrote…
Thumbs up for the volunteers!

Greetings from Henan,
Jikky”

Here is the essay by the student:

暑假里的一件事

从前，我从不和没有见过一面的人说话，也不敢在很多人的注视下说话。但是有一天我却在早集上采访了别人。
那是暑假的一天早上，我们几个同学和来我学校支教的几位老师一起去集市上去做调查，访问白色污染的问题。我们来到市上，真热闹呀！我们分成两组，我和杨旭，杨曼一组，杨义和张帅，杨豪朋一组。男生问买东西的，我们问卖东西的。我们三个女生来到一个卖热干面的摊前由我先问题一个问题，问的时候我就像怀揣一个兔子一样跳个不停，再加上有很多人看着，虽然有老师在一旁加油，但是，我还是紧张的连话都快说不出来了，就这样吞吞吐吐的问完了，我终于松了一口气心也开始平定下来了，我又问几个人，感觉越来越轻松，最后，问的时候就像和家人说话一样。
这次的采访让我不再害怕在众人面前说话，这个暑假令我终生难忘。

尚靖瑶
大杨小学
6年级

If you taught in the Volunteer Program, can you tell us what was the most special student feedback you got?