Despite the growth and reforms in areas as diverse as agriculture, education and medical care, many social and evnironmental issues have emerged that can threaten the well-being of individuals and have global implications. At the same time, a small group of people relentlessly work across China and the world to systematically address those challenges. The small group of people are social entrepreneurs. Netpring was one of them, Ms.Chia-Lin, the co-founder of the Green IT Classroom program, was invited to share Netspring story with a group of passionate, dynamic and entrepreneurial women on Dec. 21 in Fudan University.
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On Nov. 14th, Glamour-Sales setup the first Green IT Classroom in Yuhang Yulei Migrant school (Yunhe campus), Zhejiang province. Mr. Pierre Dupond, General Manager of Full Price Division, together with 3 corporate volunteers attended the opening ceremony and after the ceremony, they had the first IT class with kids from Grade 4. All of them had a happy moment with kids in the school.
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Last year, ALCOA in collaboration with Netspring Social Enterprise, setup the first “ALCOA Green IT Classroom” in Yucai Migrant School, Suzhou. With the continuous support from ALCOA and Netspring team, all the kids in the school not only have IT class in the Green IT Classroom but also have class meetings and virtue classes. Even online training for the teachers will use this IT classroom. In the past whole year, there are more than 1000 kids in school benefited from the IT Classroom. And this year (Nov. 2014), ALCOA continuously supported Yucai by setting up volunteering base, and 10 ALCOA Green Multimedia Classrooms as well as establishing “Yucai drum team”.
The leaders of Alcoa Wheel Products Suzhou, as well as the principal of the school, attended the opening ceremony. In addition, the volunteers from ALCOA and Netspring gave the students an interesting handicraft class.
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On October 29th, 2013, PerkinElmer has setup the 3rd "PerkinElmer Green IT Classroom" for migrant school in Taicang city。Taicang Yaohua Migrant school has 6 grade and more than 50 kids per class. There are about 1000 kids and 45 teachers in school, most of the teachers are graduated from college. The original IT classroom has used for years, total 25 computers with CRT screen. Normally 2 or 3 kids use one computer in the IT class.
With the support from PerkinElmer, Netspring provide computers together with their new computers assigned by local government, every kid could use one computer during IT class.The basic configuration: DELL E-6400/CPU:CORE-P8600/2G meory/160G harddisk/31 refurbished computers/Ubuntu system
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Last Saturday (September 20), Netspring together with Synopsys organized one Hiking in Pudong Haiwan Forest park with 100 volunteers and 50 migrant school kids. All of us have successfully hiked 10 KM in the park and at the end of event we raised 7000 RMB (Synopsys will match the same amount later).
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On September 10th, 2014, Air Liquide joined hands with Netspring to build the fifth "Air Liquide Green IT Classroom” in Da Baideng Hope School, located in Yang Gao, Datong. Air Liquide provided 35 green refurbished computers to the school and realized the children’s dream of learning how to use computers. This is another dedication of love from Air Liquide.
Mr. Marcelo Fioranelli, President & CEO of Air Liquide China and the volunteers from Air Liquide Datong and Shanghai together with local government attended the opening ceremony.
According to the actual situation of the used computers Air Liquide provided, there are 35 refurbished desktops were used to setup “Air Liquide IT Classroom” in Da Baideng Hope School. These 35 desktops were installed UBUNTU system.
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"Bayer Green IT Classroom" Revisit Report
2014-9-10
On the beginning of this September, Netspring together with Bayer volunteer team went to revisit Longtou village in Wanzhou district, Chongqing city. Our engineer did the routing inspection of the classroom and the other Netspring manager went to visit two poverty stricken families nearby, which were supported by Bayer volunteers for the past one year. The next day, we help volunteers have one IT class with kids from grade 2 and one handy craft class with kids from grade 1. After that all the kids throng to the playground and played small football games with all the volunteers.
Here is the data from our Green IT Classroom after used for one year:
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【SYNOPSYS 10KM CHARITY HIKING & SHARING】
SYNOPSYS with new technology, pay close attention to poor communities and encourage employees to participate in public welfare activities, inspire all the disadvantaged children to have more colorful dream for the future. With the support from Netspring, SYNOPSYS volunteers together with 50 children from Shanghai Fenxian District Xingguang Migrant school will have a 10 KM hiking in the morning of this September and then one sharing about life and heath in the afternoon.
The Key message of this event: Care about others/Slow down your living pace/Mental and Physical health/Sharing
The target of the event:
-Help social vulnerable groups: participating hiking staff will raise funds for extraordinarily poor student in Xingguang Migrant School
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On June, 25, 2013, Faurecia joined hands with Netspring to build a “Faurecia Green IT Classroom” in Luxu Primary School, located in Wujiang District, Suzhou. Thierry Aubry, the general manager of Faurecia, and 15 Faurecia staff, Netspring staff and the teachers and students in Luxu Primary School participated in the opening ceremony and the following activities, including a computer class, a craft class, and games and so on.
Luxu Primary School has lacked computer equipment for a long time. Students there can’t take computer classes. Most kids never have an access to modern learning and communicating equipment like computer. They are eager to learn more messages by computer and know the outside world the the Internet.
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【Origin】
In January 2013, “Cache-Cache Green IT Classroom” was built in Binhu Primary School, located in Huaining District, Anhui. Stephane Tork, the president of Beaumanoir, and the HR manager Maggie, as well as the principal of the school, attended the opening ceremony. In addition, the volunteers from Beaumanoir and Netspring gave the students a computer class and a lively class meeting.
Binhu Primary School had no computer classroom before, and the teachers are also lack of computer skills. But the children are eager to learn it. Therefore Beaumanoir decided to support refurbished computers to build a “Green IT Classroom” for the kids there.
