Bhutan assist project: Improved learning environment The epidemic situation has gradually slowed down, and the Bhutanese school that DENER has been assisted for a long time had re-opened. The children returned to classroom in high spirits and neatly dressed. The Olathang Elementary School, which is located halfway up the mountain. During the nearly 14 months lockdown, the school had tidied up and renovated the campus. The playground used to be covered with sand and gravel before, and full of mud when it rained. Children also bring mud and sand into the classroom. During the epidemic period, they re-paved

DENER has been implementing the stationery program for more than ten years. Recently, we learned that many schools have planned morning reading and reading courses. However, some schools lack the resources due to aging of the books and the inability to apply for funds to renew them. Some schools want to expand the library, but due to the lack of budget, they have not been able to do so. DENER selected series of books for children We have collected recommendations from teachers and selected several sets of books suitable for children to read. These sets of books are

“Many of our children don’t have any equipment during online teaching, and they have to wait for their parents to get home from work and use their parent’s phone to participate in the class.” “When phone rings, online courses would be interrupted, and it will take them a long time to come back online.” “My eyes are so tired after looking at the small phone screen all day…” This was the story that happened in the remote elementary school in Nantou County. Online teaching was not easy to implement in the mountains where resources were scarce. Hence, we

Love have no distance－tablet project report Due to the online learning policy, DENER launched a tablet collection campaign last month. These past few days, we re-arranged 16 tablets and laptops that we collected and 35 new tablets friends bought. The tablets and laptops were all delivered to the remote school of Nantou County. The tablet collection campaign received an enthusiastic response in the past three weeks. In addition to laptops and tablets, a desktop was also donated. A supporter sent 7 tablets, each with a small handwritten note on the back. “Give yourself an opportunity to change your

On May 19, the government announced that the covid-19 alert was raised to Level 3. We contacted the Houliao Elementary School in Changhua County to convey our concern. The director of academic affairs said that in order to comply with the government’s epidemic prevention policy, Houliao Elementary School had also converted the original courses to online courses. Before announcing the suspension of classes, the teachers also performed a drill for online teaching. However, despite the advance in preparations, there were still quite a few emergencies in the first week of online teaching. Insufficient online teaching equipment in the

In the morning of the spring, the streets began with the vitality of the people and that begins our day. In DENER, we are ready to transport the stationery to Hanbao Elementary School, Houliao Elementary School and Xigang Elementary School in Changhua County. On the road, the bustling scene was replaced by a large paddy field in a blink of an eye. We smelled the pure grass fragrance. Freshness was the adjective we gave. The first stop was Hanbao Elementary School. The school’s teacher invited the fifth-grade children to the office to help move the stationery to the