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=What is the specific topic your group decided to focus on?= Our group decided to focus on health care and education for migrant workers' children in the local village next to Shanghai American School, Pudong Campus, in Shanghai, China.

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Case Study: Roots and Shoots[[image:http://www.ecodesignfair.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/roots-shoots-logo.jpg align="right" caption="external image roots-shoots-logo.jpg"]]
We chose to focus on Roots and Shoots because it is a prominent, world-wide organization that SAS is already actively involved with. The organization educates people around the world about global issues, encouraging them to unlearn the habits that have allowed these problems to fester like wounds, and to take action against them.
 * Which organization did you choose to focus on and why?**

Through Roots and Shoots' PE Program (The Migrant School Physical Education Program), they are attempting to improve the migrant children's lives by providing them with physical education and routine health check-ups.
 * What exactly are they doing to try and combat or change your issue?**

Some of the things that we like about their program are that they give underprivileged migrant children a chance to improve their physical fitness and create healthy habits that will affect the rest of their lives. These weekly classes will undoubtedly enhance their quality of life.
 * What are some of the things you like about their program?**

How did they [Roots and Shoots] establish a friendly, trusting relationship with the schools? What are your methods for attracting volunteers to aid your cause?
 * What are some question you have about it?**

This project is currently running at the Liming School, an elementary school near our campus, and offers many ways to become involved. We could also organize our own health/PE program, such as teaching the kung-fu we learned in PE to the migrant children, using The Migrant School Physical Education Program as a model.
 * How do you plan to become involved with this organization of model your action plan after it?**

Visit their website [|here].

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Case Study: The Liming Project
The high school at Shanghai American School, Pudong Campus, has a program called The Liming Project. Students and staff from the high school organize educational courses to offer to the underprivileged migrant children at a nearby Liming school in the local village.
 * What exactly are they doing to try and combat or change your issue?**

This program is designed to enrich the children's lives and their knowledge of the world beyond their own. Migrant children often lack access to a proper education, which is exactly what The Liming Project is attempting to offer them [bits of]. Volunteers travel to the school to teach the students things like art, music, science, English, and U.S. culture, all of which the students to not have opportunities to learn of from their own migrant teachers.The program also includes activity days, which are days during the weekend when all the migrant students are brought into the SAS campus and allowed access to special educational courses that can be taught inside the facilities.
 * What are some of the things you like about their program?**

Where does The Liming Project get the funding for their program? How do they create the special courses taught to the migrant children? What kind of training does it require to interact with the migrant children?
 * What are some questions you have about it?**

Our global issues group spoke with the coordinator of this project, and she told us about a weekly event that was recently organized when volunteers from SAS would go to the Liming school during after-school hours to teach the children courses on different themes every few weeks (i.e. food, family, etc.) This will be a good opportunity for us to interact with the children and learn more about their lives. We'll get a chance to gain a better understanding of where they're coming from. Hearing about what The Liming Project is trying to do was very inspirational for our group. We've started coming up with our own ideas on how to step into action and help migrant children to the best of our ability, whenever the opportunity arises.
 * How could you become involved with this organization or model your action plan after it?**

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