Dong Shu Xi Song Book Drive (2004-present)
At TECC’s first project, the 2004 Gansu Summer Institute, local teachers and administrators cited poor textbooks and teaching materials as a major obstacle to improving education. In response, TECC officers coordinated the Dong Shu Xi Song (DSXS) Book Drive, which has grown to become one of the most successful TECC projects. Since its inception, over 10,000 books and audio tapes have been sent to the Gulang County in Gansu Province. The books were organized and shelved in the town library at TECC’s Gansu Institute by volunteers from Need a Hand, a grassroots nonprofit (www.needahand.org), and are now available to students and teachers free of charge. TECC hopes that the continuation of its DSXS project can significantly alleviate problems relating to the lack of print materials in developing rural towns, and believes that these donations offer a valuable supplement to classroom lessons and Web-based education tools.
The DSXS Book Drive is coordinated with the generous support of several Beijing-based and Shanghai-based publishing houses and local high schools (affiliated with Tsinghua, Pudong, Fudan, and Jiaotong universities).
