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HONGQIAO senior, So-Yun Ivy Bae, was selected for the EARCOS Community Service Grant for her project with the Qingpu Migrant School and Shelter. We recently had a chance to sit down with her and discuss her involvement in community service and learn more about this talented young lady.
Q: Can you tell us a little about yourself?
My name is So-Yun. Or you can call me Ivy. I am from South Korea and I came here (Shanghai) when I was three years old. I am now in grade 12 here at SCIS.
Q: Wow, so that’s 13 years now. Incredible! Are you always at SCIS?
No, I came here in grade 8. Before that I attended Shanghai United International School.
Q: Have you thought about where you are planning on going to university next year?
I will most likely be going back to South Korea for university. Even though I haven’t lived there in a long time, I go back nearly every summer so as not to lose some of my home culture.
Q: So, when did you first get involved with community service?
My first year here, in grade 8. Everyone was required to fill five hours of community per semester, so I started with that. The first time I went there (Qingpu Migrant School) I was really shocked because the kids there were living in very different conditions and environments than what we are used to. The school is relatively small, and the kids have little else to do but do homework all day.
Q: What did your project with the Qingpu Migrant School entail? How did you get started?
It all started in grade 8, as part of the CAS requirements. Andrea Stubbs was the person who introduced the school to us as a good place to go and so I started going there every Saturday. Then last year, when we started the IB program, we had to do our very own CAS project. We began to go there more regularly and take other interested SCIS students with us. We had to plan daily activities that we could do with the kids. Every week we played games, taught them English, things like that.
Before grade 11, everything, including all the daily plans, was prepared by our teachers. But we now have to do everything by ourselves. I, along with two other team members, came up with the idea to raise money by selling lip balm that we made ourselves. We managed to sell approximately 1,100 yuan (US$165) in total. We then decided to donate this money to the Qingpu Migrant School as well as an animal center we recently started working with.
Q: So would you say that it was Mrs Stubbs who was the main motivation who inspired you to undertake this project?
Yes, absolutely. She inspired me to keep going and pushed me to do more. Being the first person to get involved, I quickly convinced my friends to join as the project generated more interest from my peers.
Q: Do you see yourself being involved in similar projects in the near future?
Yep. We recently also started going to an animal center, helping with the cleaning of shelters, but unfortunately we do not go as often as we want because we need a supervisor to come with us every time. Doing community service is something I will for sure continue to get involved with as I progress to university next year.
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