On October 23rd, the forum activity of "De Foundation Celebrates the 10th Anniversary of Public Welfare" was held at Zhangshuwan Hotel in Leizhou City. Review the achievements of rural art support in the past ten years, talk about the future, and discuss public welfare plans.
Chen Yu, founder of De Fund and chairman of Maode Gong Group, Jiang Yue, director of De Fund and former deputy director of Guangdong Museum of Art, Hei Nan, theme songwriter and music creator of De Fund, Zeng Min'er, former secretary general of De Fund and travel writer, and 80 media reporters and guests from Zhanjiang attended the forum.
The event was hosted by Guangdong Maodegong Children's Art Development Foundation. Conducted in the form of discussions and media questions. At the event, the relevant leading guests of the German Foundation who participated in the forum reviewed the achievements of the De Foundation in the past ten years of rural art support, shared the unforgettable experience of participating in the volunteer education, talked about what they saw, heard and felt, and put forward insightful suggestions and opinions on the future development of the German Foundation; the media reporters asked questions from why art support education is used to do public welfare, what is public welfare, how to do public welfare, etc., and the leaders and guests of the German Foundation responded to the reporter's questions one by one. The atmosphere was warm and the activities were carried out in an orderly manner.
It is understood that since its establishment ten years ago, the Guangdong Maode Gong Children's Art Development Foundation has been a foundation with art support as the main body and a rural art support teaching institution. The foundation to "happy teaching, art enlightenment" concept, to "accumulate small kindness, into Maode" for the purpose, 10 years, the foundation to rural art teaching at the same time, but also according to the actual situation of the support school, for remote schools to build infrastructure, improve the conditions of running some public welfare projects, such as donating desks, building toilets, building playgrounds, etc. In the past 10 years, the foundation has traveled through 18 provinces, traveled more than 70,000 kilometers, participated in 637 volunteer teaching volunteers, supported 78 rural primary schools, and taught 37,605 art courses for 16,854 rural primary school students. Since 2012, 9,861 sets of old desks have been replaced for rural primary schools.
In the interview, Chen Yu talked about it. He said that even if he encountered a lot of confusion and difficulties in volunteer teaching, he did not retreat from it; he said that he would not forget his original intention, and the foundation's art support teaching project would definitely persist, build an art resource platform for rural children, build up artistic enlightenment, and make a modest effort to improve the level of rural art education.