Blue Letter Project is a non-profit organization focusing on psychological accompaniment and research for left-behind children.
There are 26.7 million left-behind children in China, whose parents work and live in other places for a living. Blue Letter trains volunteers to provide left-behind children with one-on-one long-term (more than one year) letter companionship, guiding them to grow up healthily and happily.
Blue Letter has provided letter service to 300 schools in 26 provinces and cities in China, and sending and receiving more than 999,277 letters. Until now, we have 76,180 registered volunteers and cover more than 1,000 colleges and universities nationwide.
Blue Letter came to the UK in 2020, supported by over 200 volunteers from more than 10 UK universities who have contributed more than 6,000 volunteering hours to our cause.
Blue Letter was awarded the "National Rural Left-behind Children Care Service and Rights Protection Demonstration Project" and recognized by the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office as one of the "50 Best Cases of Volunteer Poverty Alleviation" in 2019. Our work has been reported by mainstream media such as CCTV1, People's Daily, and Southern Weekend.
Blue Letter Project in China LinkedIn: 蓝信封留守儿童关爱中心
May every life be accompanied by warmth.
@ Who is the Blue Letters?
The Blue Letters Left-behind Children Care Center is a charitable organization providing left-behind children with 1-2-1 matched Letter Ambassadors. There are 39~70 million left-behind children remaining in rural regions of China while their parents leave to work in urban areas. The Blue Letters only converges 0.3% of them till now. We desperately need your love and persistence to accompany and listen to them in the most traditional letters.
@ Our Mission
We work to give them effective long-time accompany, broaden their visions, provide guides during their growth journey, and be sensitive to all potential mental problems they may have.
@ What you will do as a Letter Ambassador?
Firstly, you will be trained by our professional psychological experts to introduce the volunteering process and real cases scenarios (training sessions are held online).
After completing the training, you will be matched with a left-behind child, on a 12-month commitment (one letter per month). Then you will start writing to your special friend!
@ IMPORTANT:
* All processes including application, training, letter writing, and letter sending are held online, which are not affected by your time zones.
* Time Commitment: 1~2 hours per month
* As the main part of this volunteering is writing letters to left-behind children based in China, we require volunteers proficient in writing/speaking in Chinese.
@ What you will get
- Official Voluntary Certificate authenticated by China;
- Volunteering hours in MyManchester @The University of Manchester
@ What else do we have?
We offer biweekly psychological workshops held by our most professional experts, summer volunteering rural teachers programs, and lots more!
@ Some words...
Writing sounds like a little thing, but it has a much stronger impact than we think. The earlier we stay with the children, the more feeling of security they will gain.
More importantly, this journey is really fun. Imagine there's a cute little child curious about the daily life that you have been used to. You send them pictures of your living city, university, traveling, etc, and we will print them out and hand them to your special friend! Most of our volunteers and children become lifelong friends even after those children grow up.
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2 hours per month