Building grassroots connections overseas: University students spend summer vacation serving the children of Mongolia

Fu Jen Catholic University Service Learning Center (輔大服務學習中心) facilitated an overseas summer trip for 16 local teachers and students to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Based on a framework of summer camp teams, the program provides local children with courses, hands-on games, and group games to make up for a shortfall in local educational resources. The teams even visit local homes in villages to serve the community.

Fu Jen’s long-established service-learning program, which has been visiting Mongolia for ten years, used to mainly serve children from the Catholic Church of Ulaanbaatar (SPP). In order to increase learning opportunities for students, Fu Jen Catholic University Service Learning Center has built partnerships with a number of organizations and in this last year liaised with the Verbist Care Center (VCC) and Taiwan Fund for Children and Families (TFCF), further strengthening the Mongolian Ulaanbaatar Project. As children from the organizations come from different backgrounds, in the preparation of lesson plans lead students are required to ensure that picture books and activities cater to the needs of all the children. Additionally, the team also helped collect picture books in Taiwan to provide even more educational resources to local communities.

Building grassroots connections overseas: University students spend summer vacation serving the children of Mongolia 

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(以下是中文對照)

海外服務深耕當地 大學生暑假前進蒙古陪伴孩童

輔大服務學習中心帶領16位師生至蒙古烏蘭巴托進行海外服務，透過營隊的方式為當地幼童帶來課程、手作、團體遊戲，以彌補當地教育資源的不足，團隊更走入當地的家扶村進行社區服務。

輔大蒙古團已服務十個年頭，是輔大校內歷史悠久的海外服務學習團隊，過去主要是服務烏蘭巴托天主教堂（SPP）的孩童，為了讓同學有更多的學習經驗，輔大服務學習中心與更多機構合作，這些年加入南懷仁兒童中心（VCC）、家扶村（TFCF），也使蒙古團的烏蘭巴托計劃更加壯大。由於各機構的幼童成長背景不同，因此帶隊同學們在準備教案、繪本及活動都需思考不同的面向，團隊也在台灣募集繪本書籍，提供當地更多教育資源。