The Amity Foundation has launched a project called "Future Engineer Program," which aims to support vocational school students with financial stress and help them step into the workforce.
On Youth Day, May 4th, the foundation invited people to approach the program and learn about different industries, according to the foundation.
The family members let Wu study at a vocational school so that he could go to work quickly, even though he got good grades in the senior high school entrance examination. He majored in the application of electronic technology at the Yangzhou Tianhai Vocational Technology School, which is the target school of the program of the Amity Foundation that provides a workshop and scholarship for Wu.
Xiaoguo, Wu's alumnus, is a former student who benefited from the program. Majoring in elderly service and management at school, he is now interning at a nursing home in Nanjing.
Feifei, a student learning new energy vehicle inspection and maintenance technology at Chongqing Mechanical Technical College, encountered some resistance from others who believed that girls should not pursue majors outside of traditional fields like preschool education or nursing.
Despite facing gender stereotypes, Feifei remained determined to pursue her passion for the automobile industry and believed that new energy vehicles would be an important development trend in the future. The support from the Amity Foundation's "Future Engineer Program" gave her more confidence in her choices.
Wang Yuqian, a project staff member of the program, said, "In terms of major selection, we will tend to some local characteristic majors and traditional majors in project areas, such as agriculture and animal husbandry, jade carving, Huaiyang cuisine cooking, and arts and crafts, or some new majors, such as robotics, drones, new energy vehicles, services for the elderly, and minority languages.”
Since its launch in Tengchong, Yunnan, in September 2017, the program has helped more than 400 vocational school students in Tengchong complete their studies and step into the workforce over the past six years.
As a Tengchong student aided by the program to study woodcarving, Ziyi works in a local woodcarving factory to undertake the processing of woodcarving products after graduation.
(Note: Names in the article are all pseudonyms.)
- Translated by Abigail Wu
五四青年节，爱德基金会邀请众人走进“未来工程师”们的世界，感受“三百六十行”的青春色彩。
据爱德基金会，阿武因为经济能力十分有限，虽然能考入普通高中，但家里人让他上职校，能更快走向工作岗位。他读电子技术应用这个专业，阿武所在的扬州市天海职业技术学校，是爱德基金会“未来工程师计划”的项目学校之一，阿武参加的工作坊，是该项目重要组成部分。
除了工作坊，“未来工程师计划”还为阿武提供了稳定的助学金。
小国是阿武的同校学长，也是“未来工程师计划”曾经的受助学生。小国在学校学的是老年服务与管理专业，如今，他已经在南京一家颇有影响力的养老机构实习。
来自重庆市机械高级技工学校的菲菲的专业是新能源汽车检测与维修技术。当初选择这个专业的时候，周围很多人都不太理解， 他们觉得“女孩子就应该学个幼教、护理之类的专业”。
但菲菲从小对汽车行业比较感兴趣，同时，她觉得新能源汽车是今后汽车行业的重要发展趋势。
而来自爱德基金会“未来工程师计划”的支持，更是让她对自己的选择与决定多了一份底气。
据“未来工程师计划”项目工作人员王雨倩介绍， “我们在专业选择上，会倾向一些项目区当地的特色专业和传统专业，比如农业畜牧业、玉石雕刻、淮扬菜烹饪、工艺美术等，或者一些新专业，比如机器人、无人机、新能源汽车、老年服务、小语种等。”
“未来工程师计划”于2017年9月落地云南腾冲。六年来，腾冲共有400多名职校学生在“未来工程师计划”的支持下完成学业，走向工作岗位。
自毅就是一名曾经接受过“未来工程师计划”资助的腾冲学子，学的是木雕，如今已毕业，在当地一家木雕厂工作，主要承接各种木雕制品的来料加工。
（注：文中阿武、菲菲、自毅均为化名）
爱德基金会“未来工程师计划”助力职校青年追梦
The Amity Foundation has launched a project called "Future Engineer Program," which aims to support vocational school students with financial stress and help them step into the workforce.
On Youth Day, May 4th, the foundation invited people to approach the program and learn about different industries, according to the foundation.
The family members let Wu study at a vocational school so that he could go to work quickly, even though he got good grades in the senior high school entrance examination. He majored in the application of electronic technology at the Yangzhou Tianhai Vocational Technology School, which is the target school of the program of the Amity Foundation that provides a workshop and scholarship for Wu.
Xiaoguo, Wu's alumnus, is a former student who benefited from the program. Majoring in elderly service and management at school, he is now interning at a nursing home in Nanjing.
Feifei, a student learning new energy vehicle inspection and maintenance technology at Chongqing Mechanical Technical College, encountered some resistance from others who believed that girls should not pursue majors outside of traditional fields like preschool education or nursing.
Despite facing gender stereotypes, Feifei remained determined to pursue her passion for the automobile industry and believed that new energy vehicles would be an important development trend in the future. The support from the Amity Foundation's "Future Engineer Program" gave her more confidence in her choices.
Wang Yuqian, a project staff member of the program, said, "In terms of major selection, we will tend to some local characteristic majors and traditional majors in project areas, such as agriculture and animal husbandry, jade carving, Huaiyang cuisine cooking, and arts and crafts, or some new majors, such as robotics, drones, new energy vehicles, services for the elderly, and minority languages.”
Since its launch in Tengchong, Yunnan, in September 2017, the program has helped more than 400 vocational school students in Tengchong complete their studies and step into the workforce over the past six years.
As a Tengchong student aided by the program to study woodcarving, Ziyi works in a local woodcarving factory to undertake the processing of woodcarving products after graduation.
(Note: Names in the article are all pseudonyms.)
- Translated by Abigail Wu
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