For each May Day holiday every year, Beijing Xinhua International Tours will have its company outing. This year we visited Sun Village in Shunyin District and enjoyed ourself at Mountain Bar in the nightless valley in Huairou District.
Beijing Sun Village is situated in the Shunyi District in the northeast of downtown Beijing. It is about 35km away from Beijing. The village is now a home for over 100 children of incarcerated parents aged from 1 year to 18 years. The sun village was set up 1995 without any government aid. The head of the village, Mrs Zhang Shuqin is the founder of Sun Village. Now She is in her sixties. As a civil NGO, Sun Village Beijing aims to foster and educate the children with parents incarcerated, providing them baic living condition, educational support, psychological consultancy, right protection and vocational training etc.
Board the bus and started for Beijing Sun Village
Mrs Zhang gave us a vivid speech on her hardship in establishing the village
I spoke highly of Mrs Zhang' excellent work on behalf of Beijing Xinhua International Tours and promised to work harder and pay more attention to our society
We made cash donation RMB 3000 and also gave some clothes
Boys and girls sang and danced for us
Surrounded by the children
Talked with Mrs Zhang - the head of the village
Buying the handcrafts made by the students as a kind of donation
