There are more than 3 million migrant workers in Shanghai, who help the development of the city while without a citizenship. Most of them treasure the more advanced educational method in the big city as compared with their hometown and bring their children to attend schools in Shanghai. This is how schools for migrant kids who are less advantaged than their shanghainese peers spring up. MMK(More for Migrant Kids)is the specialty of TECC, Shanghai. MMK is working on the Education for migrant kids, most of which come from families of migrant workers and are relatively less educated as compared with local peers. MMK volunteers give migrant kids extra-curricular lessons of various forms, helping those underprivileged kids achieve an overall development.This year(2008), PESI works in cooperation with TECC,Shanghai to hold a week-long summer camp with migrant kids and volunteers from China and the U.S. in an attempt to stage volunteers to communicate, organize and lead within teamwork and to arouse the social responsibility from young people for the underprivileged. Meanwhile, volunteers are work to encourage the migrant kids to be confident and independent so they can make their live a better one.
TECC is a non-profit organization that leads teams of Chinese and American entrepreneurs in developing and implementing social ventures focused on technology and education. TECC believes that a great deal of positive social impact can arise from leveraging a socially conscious and motivated network,
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MMK (More for Migrant Kids)is the specialty project of TECC Shanghai that began in 2005. We seek to improve the educational and career opportunities of migrant children in the city of Shanghai. Historically, this group has been severely discriminated against and deprived of equal opportunity....