Service

The Boai Project at SSIS supports the Suzhou Industrial Park Boai Charity School. The school was launched in 1998 and provides support, treatment and education for children with physical illness, mental illness and special educational needs. Students involved will visit Boai School regularly, planning various activities and games to help the children be more active. 

The Dawn Project is an interactive music focused service experience. SSIS Senior Secondary students teach younger children, in a series of music activities and group guitar teaching.

First Love aims to to support the children of the Ati tribe in Boracay by empowering them with education and providing basic needs, so that they can integrate with the working society around them.

Heart to Heart Shanghai will help children with congenital heart defects by paying part of/all of the medical fee of one child's surgery. Product drives such as collecting donated books and toiletries are used for fundraising and to assist the families and patients of Heart To Heart Shanghai. There are opportunities, throughout the year, for students to travel to Yodak Cardio-Thoracic Hospital in Puxi, Shanghai to volunteer their time, deliver donated goods and visit the family and child that they have sponsored. This activity is for senior secondary students and is a yearlong commitment including participation in the annual Charity Concert and the SSIS Triathlon.

The vision of the Kids4Environment is to create a lasting change among people, animals and plants in the environment. Students involved are creating awareness in the school and local community by promoting the benefits of a waste free lifestyle through school events and projects in and outside of school. Kids4Environment are also developing a functioning herb and vegetable garden with compost and a greenhouse. Their aim this year is for the garden to be used as a community space by all school members. 

The Million Tree Project aims to raise community awareness of the Earth’s precious environment while focusing on steps individuals can take to lessen their negative impact on the natural world. An opportunity to travel (at the student’s expense and must be 16 years or older) to Inner Mongolia exists in April. This service experience is open to senior secondary students and is a yearlong commitment. 

Students will organize themselves into working teams to gather and bundle paper waste throughout the school. They will also work to recycle batteries with the possibility of recycling plastic and glass. Student must actively engage in meetings and develop public awareness campaigns. This service experience is open to grade 9-12 students and is a yearlong commitment.

SSSC Students meet regularly to propose, discuss, and ultimately decide on events for the student body. They act as liaisons between administration and the student body by gathering student issues and suggestions to pass on. This service experience is for students in grade 9-12 and is a yearlong commitment including participation in the SSSC Winter Semi-Formal and Battle of the Bands.

Students in Suzhou Heritage will initially help with the quality of English spoken at the gardens in Suzhou with a view to attracting more foreign visitors. After that, they will do the same service for other places of historical interest.

For each visit to a retirement home in Suzhou, students plan activities whereby they can involve as many senior residents as possible. Residents speak Mandarin Chinese, but some residents only speak the local dialect, so non-language dependent activities are also encouraged. Students will need to show a commitment to planning activities that require sensitivity to working with elderly people from another culture and with language barriers for many. This service activity is for our senior secondary students and is a yearlong commitment. 

The Wishing Well project is a student-led service group aimed towards supporting the terminally-ill children in the local Children's Hospital of Soochow University. Each year we look to support around 20 children who student participants will have a chance at meeting and get to know them better. These children may write up to 5 wishes to make up their “wish-list”, which our service group will then collectively go through case by case to select the most gratifying wishes for each child. We will then be fulfilling the wishes through our visits in the span of a school year.