树华基金会官方博客 (Soar Blog)

December 25, 2009

昆明树华班爱心与成长的慈善分享会

Filed under: Discussion — soar @ 10:47 pm

尊敬的树华基金会各位老师:您们好!

今天下午,昆明树华班在云南大学高等教育研究院召开了爱心与成长的慈善分享会,来自云南教育基金会的两位会长、云南大学高等教育研究院院长及全体师生、韩国慈善人士等30多人参加了座谈会。

在会上,我做了简短的感言后,代表树华基金会昆明树华班向高等教育研究院赠送了题为“树人百年业、乐育中华才”的牌匾,感谢他们树华课题组所做的各项工作,还为他们的14名研究生义工发放了义工证书。

树华的学生代表也在座谈会上发表了感言。

会后,韩国友人表示,他们将向树华班捐赠40台电脑。省教育基金会的会长表示,树华班集招生、教学、就业一条龙为贫困学生提供帮助的方法,比他们原本单纯发放奖学金的方式实在,他们将研究下一步教育基金会的资助方式,争取将他们资助的学生和经费与树华合作,共同为更多的贫困学生提供学习就业机会。

祝您们圣诞快乐!

建军敬上

2009.12.23.

November 5, 2009

昆明“树华班”

Filed under: Letters — soar @ 3:24 pm

尊敬的树 华各位 老师:您们好!

三、四两期“树华班”的300多名同学都聚集回校上课,穿着统一的服装站在操场上,蓝蓝的一片。

刚实习回来的同学,在长了一些见识后,管理的难度也大了。学校的教学有些死板陈旧,学生不太满意,提出想要树 华的 老师上课。他们所指的树 华 老师,实际上是我们外聘的义工老师。此举一度使得与学校的关系有些紧张。云南大学研究生院的“树华学生授课课题小组”从上周起,正式介入我们的教学,才使气氛得以改善。

为我们授课的义工,除云南财经大学的老师外,都是云南大学高等教育研究院的研究生。他们在就读云大之前,都是各高中学校的年轻教师,所以他们对这些学生的教学很有经验。昨天中午我去学校,看见他们一组人在忙着准备下午的活动:“行走在幸福的道路上”;另一组人正在安排对部分学生进行单个的心理咨询辅导,一切都有条不紊的进行着。

学生们去到那里,开口就是“我们是树华的学生,不是官渡职中的学生”。他们在看不起学校其他学生的同时,也隐藏着深深的自卑和对社会的不满。正确引导他们,改善他们的心境是一道难题。我们在加大这方面的教学力度。

上周有一件事让我很高兴,我们派老师去深圳联系三期学生技术员培训事宜,深圳市劳动就业局的人说:“你就是树 华的 老师?听说你们的学生不错!”。很是让小 何 老师欣慰。如果企业认可我们的学生,对他们进行技术员培训,将来这些学生的出路就会很好。我们也正朝这个方面努力。

现在“树华班”每周42课时,其中有6个课时是我们的附加课程。每周有18名义工老师为我们授课。由于学校离城有 14公里,交通车又不是很方便,我们对有的义工补贴一点公交车费,有时也找些车帮忙接送一下,这些开支都是找的零星资助。老师外出的差旅费,也是找些单位帮报账。现在还有不多的零星资助余款,准备用一部分来做一点运动类、棋牌类的比赛,让学生们的精神放松;还有一些得留着做义工的交通补贴。

昆明“树华班”的一切工作都开展得很正常,请你们放心。我们就是希望能树 华的 老师们如果能有机会到昆明,来看看你们的学生,这样我们就很满足了。

谢谢您们

建军致上

2009.11.5.

October 23, 2009

昆明工作汇报

Filed under: Discussion — soar @ 5:52 am

尊敬的树 华各位 老师们:您们好!

昆明树华班三期176人,四期180人都汇集到学校开始新一阶段的课堂教学。 

本学期学生周课时40学时,四分之三是以专业基础教学内容为主,四分之一是我们附加的德育课程。附加课程内容一部分是 夏 先生的“如何实现个人成功”;另一部分是云南大学研究生院的学生为我们专设了课题教研小组,根据“树华班”学生的阶段性实际情况设置课程内容并进行教学。此外,庆华老师给我的一些资料和案例也是很好的教材,也准备放在教学内容里。现在我们有投影机,在周末,我们也给同学们放一些好的影片,并组织评论。  

 

三期从实习企业回到学校,又需要一个适应过程。他们出去开阔了眼见,增长了见识,与此同时,也学到了一些负面的东西。这都是正常的,社会给予人的影响力就是泥沙具全,学校得趁他们的思维活跃时,帮他们分析所见所闻对自生的影响和作用,引导他们思维和行为的发展。 

四期录取的180名同学,体检时居然有12位同学患乙型肝炎,比例之大让我吃惊。虽然国家一直强调不得歧视乙肝病人,但学校担心同学之间会传染。我们日后的实习就业,也无法安置。无奈之下,只好让他们休学回家治病,事实上他们就再也回不到学校,很让人心痛,但我们没办法。另外补录了12人。 

前一、二期同学的跟踪很想启动,难点主要在联系方式不畅通。在大陆的网络技术高端很发达,可普及率不高,尤其是在云南。我们现在合作的这个学校是全国的重点职中,都还没有Internet网。我们与同学的联系多局限于电话,而很多在外地工作的同学都不太使用手机。我想昆明树华班的学生资料对树华的筹款应该是很有帮助的,可惜摄取影像资料有些困难。想抽时间把在昆明工作同学的典型案例取些资料,还有待落实。 

等这个阶段的工作稳定下来,1112月份准备组织一些活动。首先想请医生来学校义诊,新同学们的健康状况不容乐观,身体的基础条件太差,军训时训练强度还不是很大,就不时有人晕倒。老同学回来,体质改善很明显。 

H1N1流感总算过去了,控制得还算比较好,没有对学生造成大面积的伤害。遗留的问题是医药费。在流感突袭时,就近治疗如同军令,调集药物不惜代价。按理说这可以从国家医疗的专门经费或是从保险公司支出。可在紧急治疗时没有来得及按规定程序办理相关手续,导致了医疗费用的后续问题。学校拟向学生收取,我坚持在“树华班”不允许。 

青岛的一个韩国服装企业提出给“树华班”几台缝纫设备,用于学生的实作教学。企业希望“树华班”为他们培养后备员工。我在与他们谈学生待遇的问题,如果基本可行,企业将来学校和学生见面,并讨论教学内容。这个项目若是启动将安排在四期学生实施。 

由 夏寿民 先生为我们引见的 王旭 博士答应为昆明“树华班”联络美国Haas数控机床企业,我们希望能和这类企业进行校企合作,共同培养社会需要的岗位人员。 

台湾企业在大陆投资的大型企业很多,我们也希望能和这些企业合作。各项工作都在进行中。若树 华的 老师们有相关的信息和人力资源,盼望能得到你们的帮助。我希望校企合作最好还是在华人企业内。 

根据“树华班”的学生的实际情况,培养目标宜分两个层次。一个是培养大型企业的一线操作人员,一个是培养一线的技术员。在培养的过程中,力求加大后者的比例。 

老师来大陆了,不知能否来昆明。我很盼望树 华的 老师们能给我们的学生带些新的信息到课堂,这当然是奢望。 

让树华人追求的目标日渐高远是我们的愿望,希望能时常得到您们各方面的指导。能融入树华这个团体是我的荣幸,谢谢您们! 

建军敬上

2009/10/22

September 20, 2009

NVIDIA Win - SOAR Fund Raising Success Story

Filed under: Announcement, Stories — soar @ 3:47 pm

 

Hurrah!! We have just won a $30,000 award from this world renowned Graphic Processor Technology leader, after a keenly competitive process among dozens of Charity organizations competing for the 5 equally-amounted grants the Company dishes out annually.

 

On May 27th, 2009, the SOAR fund raising team received an email from our beloved Chairman Ben, informing us that there is a Request for Application package arrived at SOAR from NVIDIA. The deadline for responding to the RFA is June 1, 2009.

 

It all started with the kind heart of Mr. Kai Chen, a NVIDIA employee, who just happened to have watched a KTSF-San Francisco TV interview of Siu Chang and Davy Kao promoting the SOAR Annual Fund-Raising Dinner in late May of 2009. Mr. Chen spent a lot of efforts locating SOAR, and sent us the RFA via email.

 

SOAR volunteer team members receiving this RFA are to be commended for dispatching the package timely to the right persons, to still give us 5 days to work on it. The fund raising team became very busy immediately, and with the help of SOAR-wide cooperation, primarily from Suey-ju, in providing the needed legal and financial documentations, we were able to complete the seemingly “mission impossible” in time.

 

We answered all the 10 questionnaires in the RFA as a first try, forwarded them to Mr. Chen, and got in touch with him over phone for all later iterations of modifications. Our telephone conversations with Mr. Chen seemed never end from there on, until the final submission of the application on June 1, 2009.

 

In these telephone conversations, Mr. Chen told us that there can be as many as over 50 applicants this year for the grant. The first run of a NVIDIA Company-wide all-employee tally of vote would eliminate all but 10 candidates, to finally screen out another 50% of the finalists to leave only 5 organizations to be awarded with the $30,000. In a year like this year, when all purses got tightened up like clams, 30-grand turns a lot of heads of charity organizations. Thus the competition can be even tougher.

 

As a nominator of SOAR to compete for the resources, Mr. Chen has been holding our hands all the way in coming up with the best possible answers and documentations as SOAR responses. We are deeply in debt for his tireless cooperation and carefulness to details that “forced” us to work equally hard and prudently, to perfecting our package to eventually win the award.


 

 

By mid-July, Davy received an email from Mr. Chen and the NVIDIA steering committee for the grant, advising us that SOAR has passed the first cycle of elimination to become one of the 10 finalists. That added severity to Davy’s heart condition to make it beats even faster, until the $30,000 check arrived at Suey-ju’s desk just a few days ago.

 

NVIDIA is the world leader in research, development, manufacture and distribution of Graphic Chips, which is believed to be the future of the computer industry. With $5 Billion revenue and at 20% net income, the Company is well positioned for the next Graphic Presentation revolution that is soon to arrive. We wish them all the best in their venture for the best in the near future. “It will be GPU in the place of CPU.” (The Company’s information can be view in more details via :  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia).

 

We thank the Company for their philanthropic generosity and spirits. We thank their Company-wide employees for their share of charity-minded kind deeds to participate and become instrumental in the selection process. Of course, our sincere thanks goes to Kai Chen for his initiation and leadership to finally make SOAR one of the honored recipients.

 

The only regret left is that until now, nobody in SOAR has ever had the opportunity meeting Mr. Chen in person yet. We are sure Mr. Chen will quickly remedy this regret of ours by responding to our invitation to meet with him soon.

Davy Kao       -      September 2009

 

 

September 10, 2009

曾受资助的陈育娟的来信

Filed under: Letters — soar @ 4:19 am

> 敬爱的树华教育基金会的恩人们:
>     你们好!
>    
> 我的名字叫陈育娟,广东饶平人。从1997年开始,直到我高中毕业,足足六年时间,是树华教育基金会的资助,让我能顺利地完成学业,还有我的指导人蒋文莹阿姨,我一辈子都没办法忘记树华和蒋阿姨,你们对我和家人的帮助太大了,不但是经济上的帮助,也温暖和滋育着我的心灵,让我知道爱的真谛和生命的意义,是我前进的动力。
>    
> 我现在已经大专毕业,自己出来创业了,我做的是右脑开发的培训。04年一个偶然机会,我得到了记忆大师的指点,开始研究记忆法,并在我所读的大学里面,创办了“天马记忆协会”,分享方法。在07年我到中东巴林参加了世界脑力锦标赛,拿了女性世界记忆冠军,回来后,我开始传授记忆方法。08年12月,我和我的学生,08年的世界记忆冠军刘平,一起成立了学尔思教育机构。这是我们公司的网站:www.zgmind.com.
>    
> 我一直想为树华的事业尽自己的微薄之力,但我们刚刚创业,资金还不是很充足,资金的话,我可能就暂时帮不上大忙。我想,我当时就是因为所在的地方落后,信息比较封闭,没有人告诉我学习和记忆原来是有方法的,我学得很吃力,背得很痛苦,我之所以只考上专科院校,也是因为记忆力和心理能力差,高考晕倒的结果。所以,我真的很想,也为贫困山区的弟弟妹妹们,分享我的经历和经验,也给有需要的人提供培训,提升他们的想象力、记忆力和学习力。,
>    
> 或者有其他树华觉得我适合做的,只要我能做到,我都非常乐意去做。
>    
> 敬请树华给我一些宝贵的机会。
>     此致
> 敬礼!
>                                                                                                  
> 陈育娟
>                                                                                                
> 2009年9月4日

July 15, 2009

记者手记 招思虹

Filed under: Letters — soar @ 5:29 pm

翟先生:
       谢谢您传来的资料,现将我在中国国际广播电台华语台关于树华教育基金会
的报道传给你们,报道一共两页,看完第一页请点击第二页。
祝夏安!
招思虹

http://gb.cri.cn/1321/2009/07/15/661s2563574.htm

http://gb.cri.cn/1321/2009/07/15/661s2563574_1.htm

• 记者手记——树华教育基金会

June 19, 2009

June Lunch Gathering for the SOAR Friends Club

Filed under: Stories — soar @ 3:50 am
Hi Friends:
 
As usual, we had our month lunch in the same restaurant on 6/17. There were 10 people coming including a new friend Ms.Lee introduced by The Hus,Roger and Hsiang. She is a long time friend of The Hus and our most senior volunteer Mr. Xin Shu-hua, recently moved down to Union City from Oakland. The SOAR will have a new blood in the office.      
 
 There was $130.00 left to donate to The SOAR Foundation. 
 
We spent our time from 11:am to 2:45 pm to chi Chad on everything, naturally some different point of view as wall as comments on SOAR’s operation and programs. Our conversation is informal in exchange our thought and idea only.  We also touched  funny stories in our families with friends  and relatives. There was no personal accusation to those friends and relatives even in different political colors, blue or green.
 
We could spend longer time but the employees of the restaurant have a lunch break between 2:30pm to 5:00pm.
 
The next lunch happy hours will be the 3rd Wednesday of each month.
Again, it has no obligation and no pressure to you.
 
Best regards,
 
Joe Lee

June 13, 2009

曾宪章 博士昆明演讲 王建军

Filed under: Stories — soar @ 6:42 am

亲爱的树 华 老师们:您们好!

昨天, 曾宪章 博士在昆明市政府机关进行以“打造可持续发展适于人居生态城市”为题目的两个半小时演讲,政府各委办的主要负责人都前来听课。树 华班的 老师提前20分钟到讲座主会场,就已经没有了座位,好在预设了分会场,方才得以聆听他的精彩演讲。

在演讲中, 曾 博士介绍了树华和在昆树华班的情况,当天,有的委办就和我们联系商量,索要招生指标帮助他们对口扶贫县,我们约定在他们的陪同下前往各县,严格按树华班的条件考核学生。

会后, 曾 博士将昆明市政府给他的演讲费7000元人民币,由政府秘书长直接捐给了树华班。

昨天,树华班实习企业的佳能公司人事处长专程来到昆明,我们双方就树华学生培养过程中的课程设置、基础实习、技术员提升培训等问题进行了交流。决定从三期的实习学生中挑选几名同学进行轮岗训练,将来作为学校和企业双方的实习指导教师。

四期树华招生已经全面铺开,四期学生可望在三期的基础上再有提高。

谢谢您们!

建军敬上

6.13.

May 19, 2009

Photos of 2009 SOAR Fundraising Banquet by Olina Qian

Filed under: Discussion — soar @ 6:17 am
This is Olina, the photographer for Soar Foundation last night. It was my pleasure to have the opportunity to volunteer in Soar Foundation.
I am so impressed by the mission of Soar Foundation through the event. Giving is always better than taking!
Here, please find the photos I took for the event. Hope you enjoy it.
http://picasaweb.google.com/olinafd/Soar?authkey=Gv1sRgCN–q8Pvidz13AE#
and
http://picasaweb.google.com/olinafd/Soar2?authkey=Gv1sRgCJnVorbU2rujqAE#

May 15, 2009

SAOR’s TV Interview Tonight (5-14-09)

Filed under: Announcement — soar @ 2:59 am

Siu and Davy will be on TV interview at KTSF channel 26, today 11:00 PM. Please watch the program. The program will be repeated on Friday noon time.

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