UPS opens its First Green IT Classroom in Guangzhou

Following the warm winter sun, Netspring team came to Guangzhou, by close collaboration with UPS, we witnessed the first UPS green IT classroom in a local migrant school which was successfully inaugurated on Dec. 20, 2023 and UPS volunteers also contributed more than 200 books to enrich the library collection of the school. The partnership between Netspring and UPS started with the AmCham Shanghai E-waste Recycling Drive in August 2022. Netspring also joined hands again with UPS in its Volunteering Activity Month in 2023, actively mobilizing employees to collect hundreds of unused electronic products, books and other electronic waste to support underprivileged students in need. 

UPS is the world's leading logistics company, with operations in more than 220 countries and territories around the world, moving customers' important items while also focusing on environmental protection and encouraging employees to actively participate in volunteering activities. In this activity, UPS volunteers started with IT skills and environmental protection knowledge, expanding students' way of thinking and enriching students' extracurricular knowledge. After the volunteers exchanged with the students about western traditional festivals and Chinese traditional intangible cultural heritage, they also cut different shapes of window flowers together with the students to celebrate the upcoming traditional Spring Festival in advance.

Our volunteers use computers to build up a bridge of love for students, broaden their horizons, and improve their digital literacy. In the digital era, different regions have different levels of information technology and tools, forming a digital divide, but computers and the Internet have provided more possibilities for this generation of minors. A small action is not only a step forward for educational equality, but more importantly, hopefully, it can bring more vivid imagination about the world for those children.

"The previous IT classroom at the school were not sufficient to meet the daily teaching needs, and the library collection was very old. On behalf of the school, I would like to express my sincere thanks to UPS and Netspring team for helping the school solve its current problems and providing better teaching resources."

__School teacher