China-funded "Kit of Love" project launched in Cambodia to help primary school students

STORY: China-funded "Kit of Love" project launched in Cambodia to help primary school students DATELINE: Aug. 27, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:51 LOCATION: Phnom Penh CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: various of southern Cambodia's Takeo Provincevarious of China-funded "Kit of Love" projectSOUNDBITE 1 (Cambodian): CHEA MUNYRITH, Planning and project director of Cambodia's Civil Society Alliance Forum (CSAF)SOUNDBITE 2 (Cambodian): NGET SAM OEUN, Principal of the Angkomnob Primary SchoolSOUNDBITE 3 (Cambodian): SE SOKNA, Sixth-grade student at the Angkomnob Primary SchoolSOUNDBITE 4 (Cambodian): SAN SOKCHEN, Sixth-grade student at the Angkomnob Primary School STORYLINE: The China-funded "Kit of Love" project was launched in southern Cambodia's Takeo Province on Thursday. The project provides 10,000 packages of stationery, water bottles, and lunch boxes, among others, to primary school students in the Southeast Asian nation. SOUNDBITE 1 (Cambodian): CHEA MUNYRITH, Planning and project director of Cambodia's Civil Societ

Digital technologies help students study in smarter way in NW China

STORY: Digital technologies help students study in smarter way in NW China DATELINE: July 4, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:09 LOCATION: HANZHONG, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY/EDUCATION SHOTLIST: various of students' school lifeSOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LIU JIACHEN, Student, Hanzhong Dongchen Foreign Language SchoolSOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): HE XIPING, Principal, Hanzhong Dongchen Foreign Language SchoolSOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): ZHANG ZHENG, Deputy director of education information center of Hanzhong STORYLINE: With the help of digital technologies, school students in Hanzhong City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province can study and grow up in a smarter way. By the end of last year, 15 schools in Hanzhong had built smart classes, which enable teachers to design teaching activities according to the characteristics of different students. The application of intelligent technology also enables school canteens to provide students with a variety of food in line with scientific nutrition arrangement. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LIU JIACHEN,

Colorful labor skills courses in Chinese school build up confidence, hands-on ability

STORY: Colorful labor skills courses in Chinese school build up confidence, hands-on ability DATELINE: May 30, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:51 LOCATION: LANZHOU,China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: various of studentsSOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WANG XIANG, Principal of Fulongping Primary SchoolSOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): TANG MINGJUN, Six grader of Fulongping Primary Schoolvarious of students STORYLINE: Since 2019, a primary school in Lanzhou, northwest China, has been teaching various practical labor skills to students, including carpentry, handicraft, cooking, household appliances repair, vegetable planting, and alpaca raising. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WANG XIANG, Principal of Fulongping Primary School "We aim to develop the children's self-confidence and hands-on ability, and make them pursue happiness in life. Meanwhile, their interest in learning is also boosted. Through labor skills courses, we promote development of our students in all aspects." SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): TANG MINGJUN, Six grader of Fulongping Primary School

Classrooms arranged for students at Shanghai's makeshift hospital

STORY: Classrooms arranged for students at Shanghai's makeshift hospital DATELINE: May 8, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:09 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: HEALTH/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: various of the makeshift hospitalvarious of the classroomsSOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZHOU YI, Shanghai Huaping Primary SchoolSOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): ZHANG LEI, Director of Nursing Department, Shanghai Minhang District Cancer HospitalSOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): ZHANG DONGBING, Vice President of Shanghai Minhang District Cancer Hospital STORYLINE: In China's economic hub Shanghai, which has recently been hit hard by COVID-19, special venues in a makeshift hospital in the city's Minhang District have been arranged for students to take online classes with the help of many local schools. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZHOU YI, Shanghai Huaping Primary School "We've brought some digital oil paintings, all of which were drawn by our students. They can be hung in the classrooms. After receiving the notice, we made preparations in just two hours. Many of them we

GLOBALink | Chinese charity brings smiles, hope to rural students in NW Cambodia

STORY: Chinese charity brings smiles, hope to rural students in NW Cambodia DATELINE: April 17, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:13 LOCATION: Phnom Penh CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: various of the schoolvarious of studentsSOUNDBITE 1 (Cambodian): CHAN VANNA, Area program coordinator for Life With DignitySOUNDBITE 2 (Cambodian): KHONG THEANG, Principal of the Khlaing Primary SchoolSOUNDBITE 3 (Cambodian): TUON KANHCHANEATH, Sixth-grader at the Prey Thom Primary SchoolSOUNDBITE 4 (Cambodian): SOU LYHONG, Sixth-grader at the Prey Thom Primary School STORYLINE: A shortage of school materials and appropriate toilets and sanitary facilities used to be the key challenges for some primary schools here in the far-flung area of Bavel district, roughly 90 km west of Cambodia's Battambang provincial town. But the issues have been gradually addressed since 2019 after the Amity Foundation, a Chinese voluntary organization, has provided scholarships to students and helped build basic infrastructure such as toilets and handwashin

GLOBALink | Afghan woman builds girls' school in far-flung district

STORY: Afghan woman builds girls' school in far-flung district DATELINE: Feb. 27, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:30 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: EDUCATION SHOTLIST: various of the schoolSOUNDBITE 1 (Dari): MOHAMMAD TAHIR JAWAD, Provincial director of Education DepartmentSOUNDBITE 2 (Dari): NAMATULLAH, Local resident STORYLINE: An Afghan woman has helped in constructing a school for girls in the country's northern Jawzjan province, which has been welcomed by Afghans as an initiative towards developing education in the country. In Aqcha, a far-flung district of the Jawzjan province, Hajji Bibi Nazira has built a 12-classroom school on 650 square meters of land at a cost of 65,000 U.S. dollars, largely solving the school shortage for girls in the district. She has become the first woman who built a girls' school from her own wealth since the Taliban took over the power of Afghanistan in mid-August last year. Local officials said local female students, who used to attend classes under tents, now have finally found