By Qian Jing
The fleet summer holiday has gone, and students welcomed their first day at school. Learned from the Hongkou District Minors Protection Office, minors of Hongkou had a colorful summer vacation. Over 3000 activities were organized and attracted nearly 100 thousand students to participate, and 30,000 of them were children of migrant workers. It is the outcome of relevant departments making innovative ideas, strengthening collaborations, and sharing resources, which gave Hongkou students a fantastic summer holiday.
Featured projects becoming a brand
At the beginning of the holiday, the Hongkou District Minors Protection Office sent a reminder “Letter to Parents” to every household, actively guiding them how to use the electronic student ID and family passport to participate in comprehensive practices and parent-child activities. The Office also organized students to get involved in the “2016 Summer Holiday Little Professional Person” experience activity, encouraging them to go out of their home.
To help parents work without worries behind during the holiday, led by the Hongkou District Youth League Committee, eight Sub-districts of Hongkou again opened “Summer Holiday Care Class”, providing non-profit services and education. As the reputation has been accumulated in the past few years, the summer care class has become a good brand and had a total of 615 students enrolled this year, which was popular with children and their parents.
Orphans and children from economic disadvantage families were not "forgotten" as 40 of them were involved in the theme activity “Happy Helper” which has been carried out for eight years in Hongkou. Teamed up with volunteers, kids can receive care and help on their mental health, daily life, and learning.
Integrating Hongkou features to the holiday
Hongkou has various forms of buildings with rich cultural heritage. Thus, the tourist attractions of the Communist Party became the places where minors preferred to study. The Hongkou District Youth Centre organized a unique flash mob activity, which was not only promoting the proletarian ideology of the old generation and inheritance of the classic red revolutionary spirit but also attracting the youths to know and remember the history fashionably.
Despite the study tour, kids also participated in various social practices under the supervisions. To tie in with the massive traffic violations regulating campaign carried out in Shanghai, each sub-districts held theme educational activity "Little Hands holding Big Hands, Traveling with Good Manners". Children went to visit the traffic police and experience the hard work of regulating traffic, and their awareness of road safety was enhanced by studying cases and singing. While sitting in the lecture on avoiding violence on campus, they learned how to "anti-violence" and protect themselves.
High requirements of the environmental security comprehensive management were also made for the holiday. The district entertaining businesses administrative law enforcement unit strengthened its management and supervision of the Internet cafes, game rooms, and commercial ballrooms. Volunteers worked more to inspect in the Internet cafes, assuring a safe social environment for kids to enjoy their summer holiday.