Humane education

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1500972528390{padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]The teaching of humane education contributes to the wider character education of students. The goal is for children to develop character and virtue which encourages each child to become a respectful and responsible citizen of their civic community. Through the use of Caring for Life Education tools, partner schools are able to […]

ACTAsia founder and Executive Director, Pei Su, visited the Hong Qiao International School in Shanghai on International Children’s Day on 1 June. After talking to all the children and their families about Caring for Life Education, time was spent engaging in the creative arts in preparation for the official opening of the art exhibition the […]

Last month we were pleased to announce that the municipal authorities said licensed restaurants, street vendors and market traders near TongKou Markets would be prohibited from selling dog meat for a week in the run up to the YuLin Dog Meat Festival (15th-21st June).  This was a very encouraging step in the right direction from […]

ACTAsia is pleased to share with you that in the run up to the notorious Yulin Dog Meat Festival in China – where thousands of dogs and cats suffer violent deaths – local authorities have put in place a ban on the sale of dog meat leading up to the Festival. Local sources have informed […]

Caring for Life Education has been taught in both urban and rural regions of China,  but it’s the rural areas where the issue of ‘left behind children’ makes our humane education program even more pertinent. Recently, we have discussed partnership with six schools from Shanghai and Hangzhou which are a special case. Although these are […]

A rigorous evaluation of ACTAsia’s Caring for Life program (CLE) has determined that our humane education syllabus is shaping the values of the children taking part. Throughout the 2014/15 school year, three linked research studies assessed the attitudes of first and second-grade children and their teachers in schools across China. The evaluation looked at changes […]

As a charity, ACTAsia believes that the best way to put an end to animal cruelty is through education. Far too many people are unaware that their lifestyle and consumer choices are the driving force behind some appalling treatment of animals – whether in fur production, Chinese medicine or fashion. In a groundbreaking new approach […]

An endemic migration of China’s population from impoverished rural provinces to expanding urban zones, is leaving a desperate problem in its wake. China’s 61 million ‘left-behind-children’ have fallen prey to the system of ‘hukou’, a restriction on government funding which only allows children to attend school in the area they were born. While their parents […]

ACTAsia frequently runs training programs throughout the year for volunteers, students and teachers to attend and learn about Humane Education. Recently, nearly 40 volunteers and teachers taking part in ACTAsia’s Humane Education Program joined the outdoor education event at Grand Windmill Farm (GWF), in Zhongshan. The two-day event was a great success, bringing people from […]

In October, our Humane Education Advisor Joy Leney from the UK, together with Dr. William Samuels from the US, joined ACTAsia’s Executive Director Pei F. Su for a trip to China. During the trip, there was tea with Director Wan (a philanthropist and General), and a two-day workshop for more than 30 teachers in Dalian. […]