YCIS helps the community this Christmas!

Edited by Roseline Yang, Community Relations Officer

img_0346Sometimes, we do not realize that by doing something small, it can bring so much joy to others. In fact, every step counts and contributes to making a big difference: Going shopping to buy the goods, bringing your contribution to school to donate it, putting it under the Christmas Tree with the class, helping to sort the goods into different boxes, packing the boxes, carrying the boxes to the transportation van and delivering them have all contributed to bringing a big smile and love to the hearts of others.

Click on the blue ‘Giving Tree’ and ‘Christmas Tree Lighting’ to see all the photos of each event.

Thank You Word from Priyanka Chaturvedi, Giving Tree Coordinator and POP Core Committee Member

1-2By the end of the two days we were able to pack about 30 boxes for each of  the  foundations. This would not have been possible without the tremendous support of our parent volunteers who came in and helped us pack all the donations and within the two days itself we were ready to send out the boxes to the respective charities.  At POP, we would like to once again thank our YCIS families for not only sending the donations but also finding time to help us in packing and delivering the donations. Without your help we would not have achieved this.

screen-shot-2016-12-15-at-12-03-07-pmPOP Liaison Officer Nadine Runkel together with some POP Core-Committee members delivered the boxes on Tuesday.  Shanghai Baby Home Co-Founder, Daisy Zhang, shared the following comments:

Your Giving Tree boxes arrived in our place just at the right time! The ayis were saying that we were already running out of toilet paper! We are so grateful for the milk powder and nappies as they are essential for the babies! Now, we have one thing less to worry about! A huge thank you to all YCIS families and we hope that you will come to visit us again. The children were very happy to be able to interact.

Thank You Word from Pilar Tan, Founder of WILL Foundation

1-4WILL Foundation has been blessed for the third year of having been chosen as YCIS Pudong campus’ beneficiary of Giving Tree recipients!   On Monday afternoon, the children were so excited and so happy to receive and discover what was inside the boxes. When I asked them why they were so happy, one said “there are so many things for us!”, another said “we are so lucky that there are good people caring for us”, and a teacher overwhelmed by the joy of the children said “I feel like crying”.   We had YCIS parents and teachers visiting us in the past and I hope soon some current teachers and parents will also visit us next year!

Once again thank you for such a wonderful Christmas gift to our children and household! Wishing you all a wonderful and blessed Holidays.

Thank You Word from Anne Teh, Y4-Y5 Parent and coordinating the bake sale at the Christmas Tree Lighting

1-5It was my first time joining the Christmas Tree Lighting at the Century Park Campus and I was inspired by the spirit of joy and giving from the YCIS community, the powerhouse that lit up the splendid evening! The generosity of the parents who baked was greeted by many eager helping hands from both campuses, who remarkably sold out all the delicious cookies to the supportive YCIS community.

image-3Each packet of cookies was sold at RMB10. We raised a total of RMB3,990 to cheer Walk into Life and Learn (WILL) Foundation on to build an Eco home for the disadvantaged children to be sustainable and flourish in life. A big thank you to all who have participated and given generously to the WILL Foundation.

Here is the Scoop!

wechatimg30Four Year 7 boys helped sell bears at the Heart to Heart (H2H) booth at our October Bazaar and with the sale of the bears they helped sponsor a child for surgery. Jonathan and Nathan had been to the Yodak H2H hospital a while back to deliver gifts to 3 children that YCIS had sponsored with the Gala Dinner last school year. We received a tour of the hospital and visited the children. Our H2H Host DJ was very passionate and inspiring and so the boys did not hesitate when they were asked if they would like to work the H2H booth at the bazaar. They convinced their friends Sasha and Justin to help as well.

Thank You Word from Karen Carrington, Volunteer Executive Director of Heart 2 Heart Shanghai

1-1The YCIS Year 7  project (done by Justin Shih, Sasha Sia-Jacob, Jonathan Lim, and Nathan Shih) has given a child the greatest Christmas present ever….The Heart to Heart child the project helped sponsor for heart surgery is currently in Yodak Cardio-Thoracic Hospital in Shanghai.  She is Chen Xiaolu – an eleven year old girl from Sichuan province.  She had the cardiac catheritization she has needed for years yesterday (December 10) is doing really well.  She can already take visitors!  You are, after all, a big part of her life now.  Little things can make huge differences. Thank you for making this possible!