Last month, Chunmiao Little
Flower was proud to be Morgan Stanley China’s 2014 Core Charity Partner. With
the firm’s emphasis on community engagement for employees as well as children’s
health, we were excited to be chosen!
Not only did the company’s employees
donate funds, with 80,000 RMB raised, they were also able to make the journey
out from Beijing’s city center to Shunyi, where our projects are located, to
volunteer with our older children—both our Early Education Center students and
our older children in Little Flower’s Group Educational Foster Care Program. We
worked together to organize two fun activities for the kids—a weekend outing to
a botanical garden, as well as a sports day in early June.
The Sports Day was especially
exciting—with games, prizes, and fun for everyone! The day’s activities
included...
Egg and spoon races!
Ming was a little nervous about
dropping his egg, but he got some help from a new friend.
But like Ming, many of our kids
were just holding on to their hard-boiled eggs for dear life! They didn’t want
to drop what would soon be a tasty snack…
One of the tastier competitions
of the day was the watermelon contest. Teachers and volunteers alike cracked
open some juicy, sweet summer watermelons, and the competition began.
But the most fun to be had was
definitely at the end of the day, when it was time for tug of war—an essential
component to any good summer sports day. For this game, everyone participated—Little
Flower children, teachers, foster parents, and Morgan Stanley visitors.
After two big rounds of tug of
war, both sides could claim a win. By the end of the day, everyone—especially
the younger kids—was ready for an afternoon nap, and the event was deemed a
rousing success. It was a great way to introduce some of Morgan Stanley’s
employees to the children and foster families that they’d be supporting through
their donations.
The day at the botanical garden
the next weekend was just as fun--with beautiful weather and a great time had
by all.
We at Little Flower just wanted
to extend our thanks to all of the employees at Morgan Stanley’s China offices
for their support!
And a special thanks goes out to
Morgan Stanley’s Li Xu for spearheading this cooperation!
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