Hello! I'm James Evans, and I've been teaching on the ELC Service Learning course 2S02
here in Phnom Penh in Cambodia. This is the second year we've run this course.
This time we have about 22 tutors I believe, and it's been, I would say,
initially on this final evening, it's been a very, very successful course.
One of the ideas of Service Learning is that the students from different faculties need
to cooperate with one another, learn how to work using their different styles, and
this group have done it really, really well. So right from the word go, they were
very, very impressive.
[Eric Tindall] There are a lot of very interesting things that they've
been able to take away during their time here, such as you know, the people's
attitude, their outlook on life, the children's desire to learn, the way that
education works, and it's an interesting contrast with what they experienced back
in Hong Kong, so it does allow them to have a new view on not only the world
but their own their own hometown.
Hi, I'm Bee Dy and this year I joined Hong
Kong PolyU you as a volunteer for this Service Learning trip this year. We are
also partnering again with Emmanuel Community School. I just wanted to share
one major takeaway from the Principal and what he shared with us, which really
inspired us. He said that he wants to one day train his 400 students to one day
help 400 more students. Having said that, I think that's a major goal of
Service Learning as well. Through teaching English, which is to train 31
students to be global citizens and one day pass on the word to 31 more students or 300.
Hi I'm Dorothy, and I'm studying social work.
So, ELC23O2 gives a chance for me to come to Cambodia and teach some primary
children about English and most importantly, life affects life, so I used
my heart and all my love and care to the kids, so that they can feel my love and
they can pass it to others. So I really hope that you can also join this programme,
because [it's] really, really fun and very educational.
Hi I'm Cogent, and my major is International Shipping and Transport
Logistics. This is my second time to join this Service Learning Programme organised
by PolyU. Service Learning for me is a special programme; it's far beyond [the]
curriculum because you not only apply what you have learned but also you learn
to help the community.