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.

JSSC students meet regularly to propose, discuss, and ultimately decide on events for the student body. Students are also involved in charitable fundraising activities. This activity is for students in grade 6-8 and is a year-long commitment including the JSSC Dragons on Display Talent Show, JSSC Winter Semi- Formal and the JSSC Spring Fling. 

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. 

Paws4Cause has the mission to address the problems with large numbers of stray cats and dogs in Suzhou, along with regular visits to a local animal shelter allowing for direct service opportunities. Students participating in this activity will be required to work collaboratively and solve problems in a team. Paws4Cause will make direct service a focus with visits to a local animal shelter. This service experience is open to grade 9-12 students and is a yearlong commitment including the Annual Blanket Drive and the Annual Photography Competition. 

Sama Fund is a service group that focuses on improving the school conditions of a refugee camp located in Jordan. We strive to give educational opportunities to children and young adults in the camp where about 35,000 people reside. We provide much-needed supplies to the student training sections of the camp, which heavily lack school supplies. We set up events around school that help fundraise towards these educational areas in the camp.  

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.

Stepping Stones is a service group dedicated to supporting disadvantaged children in China by providing access to quality English and digital education. Stepping stones connects SSIS students with classes of children for tutoring, creating a unique learning exchange that benefits everyone involved. We are unique in allowing our members to use their knowledge and resources to give back to the local community through a direct method: hands- on teaching. Additionally, we also host engaging fundraising events throughout the year to support Stepping Stone’s headquarters in Shanghai and other related initiatives.

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.

Tang Mama is a local charity organization which supports a variety of areas. Fundraising for lifesaver jerrycans which help produce clean drinking water for rural Gansu as well as working with people of various backgrounds in the market place. Students will support by creating fundraising opportunities as well as providing direct service by attending events and volunteering at the charity shop in SIP.

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.