About Us
Royal Chinese Culture Academy (RCCA) is a nonprofit organization in California, USA. We organize volunteer and cultural exchange programs. The Chinaway Volunteer Program, for American high and college school students to travel and serve in China. This Chinaway Volunteer Program started in 2008 and has been running continuously until now. Since 2014, the program has formed an alliance with the China Panda Research Base and volunteer where every year.(See : www.chinapanda.org.cn/Volunteer). Our work will help raise money for the China Giant Panda Research Center. At the same time, we passed the Presidential Volunteer Service Award in the United States.
The 2008 Wenchaun earthquake led to an expansion of volunteer work in China. In 2009, the Department of Education and other agencies in Sichuan commissioned China Way to organize a volunteer program for American high school students to volunteer in China. When American students first went to China's rural towns, they met Chinese children of their age, Chinese children's needs and likes for them, Chinese children's enthusiasm for learning, compared with the backwardness of China's living environment, American students were strongly shocked. Chinese is no longer a words and symbols, the interaction between Chinese children, Chinese life and American students is exciting and rewarding for American students. The American students formed deep and lasting bonds with the Chinese children they met.
The Chinaway Volunteer program now mainly focuses on developing leadership skills for high school students. In the process of helping the community and doing volunteer work, the project exercised students' leadership, creativity, collaboration, teamwork and problem-solving skills through editing teaching materials, organizing public welfare summer camps, and conducting various cultural projects with community associations.
The program has gradually formed unique educational functions: teaching English and American culture in China, and teaching assistant of other Chinese subjects, not only lecturing on the platform, but also editing different textbooks according to different teaching requirements and students' level. In organizing classes, must manage dozens of Chinese students, which greatly exercises students' management ability, communication ability, Chinese listening, speaking, reading and writing ability. During the two weeks work, will teach different classes, different students, and complete different projects. It gave students the opportunity to complete various projects, and cultivated the ability to solve problems and do real projects. The experience of living independently in China has greatly trained students to manage time, adapt to the society, and understand different cultures. At the same time, it has expanded students international vision, deeply felt Chinese culture, and cultivated their collective cooperation ability and personal life ability.
RCCA is registered on benevity: https://causes.benevity.org/causes/840-800745313
RCCA's EIN/Tax ID: 80-0745313
VOLUNTEER AND EDUCATION PROGRAM LEADERSHIP TEAM
Cindy Xia (Funder)
Chiyu Wang
Xiaomin Li
Jun Zhang
Holly Huang
中国道志愿者项目是专门组织美国高中生到中国做志愿者服务，文化交流服务，以及在美国帮助当地社区的志愿者服务的项目， 是在美国加利福尼亚州正式注册的非营利组织。这个项目 从2008年开始，一直持续举办到现在。 2014年起中国道志愿者项目与中国熊猫研究基地结盟，每年国定到熊猫基地做义工。参见：www.chinapanda.org.cn/Volunteer。我们的活动将帮助中国大熊猫研究保护中心筹款。同时我们在美国通过了发放总统志愿者服务奖的资格。
中国道志愿者项目缘起于2008年汶川的特大地震. 那一年志愿者概念刚开始传入中国，特别是对相对闭塞的四川。2009年受四川教育局等机构的委托，我们第一次组织了美国高中生志愿者团到中国服务。2009年当美国高中生第一次到了中国基层的乡村城镇，见到了与他们年纪相仿的中国孩子，中国孩子对他们的需要与喜欢，中国孩子希望学习的热情，对比中国生活环境的落后，美国长大的华裔孩子受到了强烈的冲击。中国不再只是文字与符号，中国孩子与中国生活同美国孩子的互动让美国孩子兴奋与收获。
项目发展到现在，Chinaway 志愿者项目更多地专注在培养高中生的领导能力上。项目在帮助社区，做义工的过程中，通过编辑教材，组织农村公益夏令营，与社区社团做各种文化项目，来锻炼同学的领导能力，创造能力，协作能力，小组合作能力，解决问题的能力。项目逐步形成了独特的教育功能：到中国教英语与美国文化，做中国其它科目的助教，不光是讲台上的讲课，更主要地要根据不同教学要求，学生水平，编辑不同教材，在组织课堂中，要管理几十位中国学生，这非常锻炼同学的管理能力，交流能力，中文听说读写能力。2周间要教不同的课，不同的学生，完成不同的项目，给同学完成各种项目的机会，培养了解决问题，做真实项目的能力。在中国独立生活的经历，大大锻炼孩子管理时间，适应社会，了解不同文化，同时还拓展了孩子的国际视野，深入感受了中国文化，培养了他们集体的合作能力，个人生活能力。
孩子最终要走入社会，走入生活才最终完成他们的成长。给孩子提供特别的社会实践活动是中国道项目的另一特点。凡是去过的孩子都表示既帮助了他人，又得到了极大的锻炼与收获；家长也感到孩子去后懂事多了，中文也提高了，所以每年这个项目都有学生去第二次，还有去三次的孩子。 中国道志愿者活动在四川也得到了非常好的社会效果，因为美国学生带去了中国当今最缺乏的奉献精神，给农村孩子上英语，给留守儿童教课，不是只为了教他们认几个英语单词，而是通过这个活动让他们感到社会的关爱，感受到全新的精神追求，感受到美国的文化，感受到人间的友好善良。多年下来中国有上千名孩子暑假参与了这个项目的学习与交流，起到了很好的社会效果。