The little Sisters Preschool Program
The earliest period of childhood is a very important period during the whole children‘s developing procedure, and entire experiences will closely affect their lifelong social capabilities and intelligences. All children naturally have potential for study and motivation. They can acquire knowledge easily if we can offer suitable stimulation of activity and sense during their proper study phase.
Invited and trained local young teachers and used new educational models, teaching contents will be designed according to children’s demands. It’s a unique and progressive curriculum that blends principles of the Reggio Emilia’s approach to early childhood education with contemporary Chinese teaching methods, teachers feel free to teach. Each child’s intelligence, emotion and social potential will get the carefully nurtured through long-term enlightening, individual concerns, positive study, and sports games. At the same time, they will receive personal records in detail and all procedures that consist of their speeches, remarks, videos of regular activities, photos as well as all handmade works, which can reflect their imagination and knowledge. All these kids will get a set of individual records or monumental brochures, and these records will follow them forever.

The Baby Sisters Infant Nurture Program
This program organized for infancy children (0-18months). The most urgent expectation for infancy children are personal cherished in families; most of welfare institutions in china already have good basic care. However, lots of welfare centers or institutions need more workers. Some special nannies-“grandmothers in Chinese”--retired or laid-off workers from the local community--are trained to act as parent who has fallen in love with a child intuitively acts—they sing, play, cuddle, hug, and generally dote on their charges in welfare centers or institutions. Nannies take fixed time everyday to look after 3-5 babies and build good relationships with them. In order to developing babies’ intelligence and psychological heart, this program provides a healthy starting for those babies’ life.

The Big Sisters Program
The Big Sisters Program provides individualized learning opportunities for older children (12-18years) who still remain in orphanages. Owing to they’d never been to school and never had basic education, these girls have grown up without family can not choose their future. Looks like they already had been abandoned by society, more lamentable things are they already generally lost their hope by their selves.
According to different children’s demands, our program-“The Big Sisters Program” will provide a variety of assistance to change their life, which included in tutoring, tuition fee assisting, music training, computer training, language training and employment training, etc. based on their personal conditions. Hope one day, some older sisters can teach in welfare institutions and share their knowledge with younger sisters and brothers.

Cooperation partners
Half the Sky Foundation-Nurturing care for China’s orphaned children
Half the Sky Foundation was created in 1998 by adoptive families of Chinese children in order to establish preschools and infant nurture centers inside of China’s orphanages. So far, there are more than 16,000 families supporting this foundation in the world. The donator and sponsor of this foundation are all adoptive families of Chinese orphans and disabled children. Created this foundation, the adoptive families appreciated Chinese government and Chinese people trust them with the Chinese children. These children brought lots of happiness for their families. Therefore, they wish they can return this deeply love for long time. In August of 2002, Half the Sky Foundation cooperated with China Population Welfare Foundation and China Association of Social Workers together organized Sisters Programs in Children Welfare Institution of China, such as “The Little Sisters’ Preschool Program”, “The Baby Sisters Infant Nurture Program”, and “The Big Sisters Program”.

Half the Sky Foundation’s website: http://www.halfthesky.org