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Scout (Joining Requirements)Troop 969 maintains a small Scout library, included are numerous merit badge pamphlets. We try to keep one current copy of each of the Eagle-required merit badge pamphlets and many of the pamphlets for the electives easily earned in Shanghai. You may borrow a pamphlet unless it is already checked-out or in use by the Troop leadership.
My Eagle Project was the refurbishing of two Catholic Migrant Church Rooms for a local Chinese community. The project included the physical work on the rooms as well as collecting donated items such as a ping-pong table, bean bag chairs, an area rug, and games and books. Over two weekends volunteers helped clean-out the rooms, prepare the rooms for painting, paint the rooms, clean the furniture, and organize and set-up the rooms with furniture and the donated items. The two rooms are known as the Ping-Pong room and the Social room. The Ping-Pong room has a ping-pong table in it as well as some bibles and benches so that the community can use the room for a bible study room as well. The Social room is a room for kids and adults to gather. It includes an area to watch DVDs, play board games, read, and socialize. The migrant community was very appreciative of the hard work that everyone put into the project. Thank you to everyone who donated and helped with the refurbishing.
My project centered on providing a school for the children of migrant workers with library facilities. The school provides education for over 400 students but had no books for recreational reading. The project entailed organizing a book collection, fundraising for shelves, chairs and a table, and preparing all of these items to be donated to the school. Over the course of three weeks adult volunteers held collections at work. Later, I had a small group of people help me to prepare the books by sorting them by genre and labeling them as property of the school. In all, we were able to donate over 650 English and Chinese books, many of them brand new. Now the children at the school have a place dedicated to expanding their interest in reading.
The main focus of the Eagle Project (Migrant Yearbook 2009) was to give the migrant eldest children and staff of Huang He Migrant School a chance to have a memento of their school year (2008-2009). So many of us take our yearbooks for granted. What we don’t realize is that yearbooks take a lot of work to create, and have made. Some people aren’t as fortunate as us. Like the migrant kids for example, they’ve never gotten anything to remind themselves of the school they went too. Many wished for a memento of their school years, but many never got one. This year, thanks to their Headmaster (Mr. Wang Xun Dong, who was my main source of guidance toward the school), their wish came true.