Education and Life Skills

The existing curriculum of China's 9 years mandatory education place overt weighting in academic subjects and how to get high scores in public examination.  Life-skills education is essentially absent in most schools.  

World Vision China had started education and life skills programs for more than a decade.  Special focus had been placed on left-behind children since year 2000 when the issue was gaining prominence. It is estimated that there are as much as 61 million of left behind children.  

Our work:

• Support parents and/or caregivers capacity building through ECE and child development milestone training;
• Enhancement of ECE facilities and community environment for children;
• Life skills training;
• Encourage child participation through Children's Centre programmes;
• Enhancement of teaching resources, facilities and environment; and
• Support most vulnerable children to access pre-primay education.

As a result,

• 93.4% of children acquired knowledge and skills to make good judgments, manage emotions and communicate ideas;
• 185 project schools, about 4.5 times the number of previous year, adopted life skills training for students; and 
• children from 558 schools have access and complete basic education.