In addition to your work assignment, study abroad program, or travel schedule, you can volunteer with one of CSL’s partner organizations and make a real difference in the lives of Chinese children, teens, adults, and the elderly alike. You can participate in a number of different activities including: teaching, child/infant-care, health-care, or simply donate to a specific program, child, or family of your choice. Volunteer for a few hours a day or devote months at a time, whichever you prefer. We’ve teamed up with the following organizations, but if you’d like some more options or you have questions about getting involved somewhere, contact us and we’d be happy to help.
Compassion for Migrant Children (CMC) is a collaborative effort to provide a framework within which organizations, individuals, and companies can express their care for children of migrant workers. Its uniqueness lies in the strength that multiple mature humanitarian partners bring to the table. CMC also engages the Chinese government and local educational officials for greater and longer lasting impact.
Tree Birds is a reforestation project that raises money to plant trees in China on deserted, dry and un-arable land. Their goal is to plant 150 million trees in 2008 with their partners CGF. Chris Rynning and Sig Dugal are the founders of Tree Birds.
Hua Dan enables personal, social and economic empowerment of China’s migrant workers through participation in and leadership of inspirational arts-based projects.
Dr. Joyce Hill and her husband Robin have a vision to help the local Chinese Children’s Welfare Institutes in the work that they do, caring for abandoned babies. The Hills do this by providing care and medical treatment for babies with surgically correctable deformities. These babies are looked after in the Hills own home and are treated as if they were their own children. In February 2000, the Hills first opened their home to children in a small village South East of Beijing. This was done in conjunction with the Beijing Children’s Welfare Institute and the help of many supporters. The Hills have now built a new home in the North East of Beijing using the same model as the first. This home accommodates 56 babies as well as being the center for babies to be fostered into local homes in the surrounding area. From this home they also manage various other special care units in China, which in January 2008 could care for up to 153 babies. Their vision is to meet the very specific needs of very young babies either at risk or in need of surgery that would not otherwise be available to them.
