Guangzhou Huiling
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Guangzhou Huiling or Huiling is a charitable organisation in Guangzhou
that provides support for persons with mental disabilities, special education and other services. It was founded in 1990 by Ms. Meng Weina and Mr. Fernando Cagnini in Guangzhou and expanded in 2000 to Beijing
and other parts in China.
, Tianjin
, Qingyuan
, Chongqing
, Wanzhou, Changsha, Lanzhou
and Hong Kong
, in order to help more persons with mental disabilities through extending Huiling service network.
It is a full-time kindergarten
for children between two and six year-old where Huiling integrate the mentally disabled and normal children in a common learning environment for the benefit of both. There are several classes for children, namely English class, painting, mental arithmetic
class. Each class accepts mentally disabled children to promote the development of integrated education
.
Special Primary School
This facility caters for children aged between six and fifteen who are moderately and severely mentally disabled. It provides training, education
and residence service. The students use learning materials especially designed for those with learning disabilities according to their ages and personalities. In particular, Huiling blends each student's individual education plan into daily course. Also giving help to autistic students, Huiling operate structural education by picture communication. The students usually graduate at fifteen, they are admitted to Youth Training Centre, Youth Sheltered Workshop, and Adult Care Residential Home to receive different levels of training after assessment.
This centre is for adults, above eighteen, with moderate and severe mental disabilities, aiming to provide training, nursing and accommodation services. From the perspective of communalization, the trainees are taught simple tasks and basic living skills at home. They are also allowed to visit market, shops and parks in the vicinity so that they can integrate into the local community. On the other hand, they offer specialized services, such as nursing service, physiotherapy, music and art therapy
and counseling according to the different needs. All in all, these services are aimed at giving them a sense of security, strengthening their life value.
Youth Training Centre
This centre was set up in 2006 for the purpose of providing vocational education
, training and accommodation for the persons aged above 15, with mild and moderate mental disabilities. First, trainees are evaluated when they enter. Then Huiling makes individualized vocational training plans according to their ability and requirement. These trainings will help trainees develop vocational skills, community independent living skills and work behaviors, so as to match the needs of supported
and community employment, with the aim of improving their life quality.
Youth Sheltered Workshop
The centre is mostly for the people above the age of eighteen, with mild disabilities. It has the concentration of trainees with highest ability of working. They are taught skills such as sewing, handwork, packing, cleaning, cooking, computer operation, painting and art performance. Huiling operates Sheltered workshop mode, to help them to cultivate their abilities and improve their chances of getting a job. The persons with mental disabilities can gain money in return through their working. After above three years' training, they possibly get employment or semi-employment if recommended.
It was specialized at providing training to autistic students. This service was suspended in 2006 summer.
Huiling Farm
It was set up in June, 2008, covering an area of 1.15 hectares. There are 800 fruit trees including wampee, longan
and litchi trees. The farm was divided into three sections consisting of cultivation area, planting area and living area.
Family Homes
The family home is the place where five to six trainees live a normal life with the help of a house mother. Trainees are able to learn how to take care of themselves and other individual living skills under an atmosphere with love. Also, They have right to share community facililties and maintain environmental sanitation. The first Family Home was established in 2001, and the Family Home Service Department was set up in 2005. Now, there are thirteen Family Homes for trainees with mental disabilities
Guangzhou
Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...
that provides support for persons with mental disabilities, special education and other services. It was founded in 1990 by Ms. Meng Weina and Mr. Fernando Cagnini in Guangzhou and expanded in 2000 to Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
and other parts in China.
Mission
Huiling’s mission is to improve the quality of the lives of the mentally disabled and their families. In addition, we seek to establish a model of community-based, client-centered services that are replicable throughout China.Vision
Huiling’s vision is equal opportunity for the mentally disabled to aid in their contribution to the community and share in the benefits with the community.Affiliate
Huiling has established affiliates in other parts of China, including Xian, QinghaiQinghai
Qinghai ; Oirat Mongolian: ; ; Salar:) is a province of the People's Republic of China, named after Qinghai Lake...
, Tianjin
Tianjin
' is a metropolis in northern China and one of the five national central cities of the People's Republic of China. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is, thus, under direct administration of the central government...
, Qingyuan
Qingyuan
Qingyuan , historically known as Tsingyün, is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Guangdong province of Southern China. Its total population is 3.7 million, and the primary language spoken is Cantonese. With an area of 19,015 km², Qingyuan is the city of the largest land area in Guangdong...
, Chongqing
Chongqing
Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the...
, Wanzhou, Changsha, Lanzhou
Lanzhou
Lanzhou is the capital and largest city of Gansu Province in Northwest China. A prefecture-level city, it is a key regional transportation hub, allowing areas further west to maintain railroad connections to the eastern half of the country....
and Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
, in order to help more persons with mental disabilities through extending Huiling service network.
Early Childhood and Children Education
Integrated KindergartenIt is a full-time kindergarten
Kindergarten
A kindergarten is a preschool educational institution for children. The term was created by Friedrich Fröbel for the play and activity institute that he created in 1837 in Bad Blankenburg as a social experience for children for their transition from home to school...
for children between two and six year-old where Huiling integrate the mentally disabled and normal children in a common learning environment for the benefit of both. There are several classes for children, namely English class, painting, mental arithmetic
Mental calculation
Mental calculation comprises arithmetical calculations using only the human brain, with no help from calculators, computers, or pen and paper. People use mental calculation when computing tools are not available, when it is faster than other means of calculation , or in a competition context...
class. Each class accepts mentally disabled children to promote the development of integrated education
Integrated Education
The Integrated education movement in Northern Ireland is an attempt to bring together children, parents and teachers from both Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions: the aim being to provide a balanced education, while allowing the opportunity to understand and respect all cultural and religious...
.
Special Primary School
This facility caters for children aged between six and fifteen who are moderately and severely mentally disabled. It provides training, education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
and residence service. The students use learning materials especially designed for those with learning disabilities according to their ages and personalities. In particular, Huiling blends each student's individual education plan into daily course. Also giving help to autistic students, Huiling operate structural education by picture communication. The students usually graduate at fifteen, they are admitted to Youth Training Centre, Youth Sheltered Workshop, and Adult Care Residential Home to receive different levels of training after assessment.
Youth and Adult Services
Huiling Adult Care Residential HomeThis centre is for adults, above eighteen, with moderate and severe mental disabilities, aiming to provide training, nursing and accommodation services. From the perspective of communalization, the trainees are taught simple tasks and basic living skills at home. They are also allowed to visit market, shops and parks in the vicinity so that they can integrate into the local community. On the other hand, they offer specialized services, such as nursing service, physiotherapy, music and art therapy
Art therapy
Because of its dual origins in art and psychotherapy, art therapy definitions vary. They commonly either lean more toward the ART art-making process as therapeutic in and of itself, "art as therapy," or focus on the psychotherapeutic transference process between the therapist and the client who...
and counseling according to the different needs. All in all, these services are aimed at giving them a sense of security, strengthening their life value.
Youth Training Centre
This centre was set up in 2006 for the purpose of providing vocational education
Vocational education
Vocational education or vocational education and training is an education that prepares trainees for jobs that are based on manual or practical activities, traditionally non-academic, and totally related to a specific trade, occupation, or vocation...
, training and accommodation for the persons aged above 15, with mild and moderate mental disabilities. First, trainees are evaluated when they enter. Then Huiling makes individualized vocational training plans according to their ability and requirement. These trainings will help trainees develop vocational skills, community independent living skills and work behaviors, so as to match the needs of supported
and community employment, with the aim of improving their life quality.
Youth Sheltered Workshop
The centre is mostly for the people above the age of eighteen, with mild disabilities. It has the concentration of trainees with highest ability of working. They are taught skills such as sewing, handwork, packing, cleaning, cooking, computer operation, painting and art performance. Huiling operates Sheltered workshop mode, to help them to cultivate their abilities and improve their chances of getting a job. The persons with mental disabilities can gain money in return through their working. After above three years' training, they possibly get employment or semi-employment if recommended.
Other
Education Institute for AutismIt was specialized at providing training to autistic students. This service was suspended in 2006 summer.
Huiling Farm
It was set up in June, 2008, covering an area of 1.15 hectares. There are 800 fruit trees including wampee, longan
Longan
Dimocarpus longan, commonly known as the longan, is a tropical tree native to South and Southeast Asia, in the Indomalaya ecozone known for its edible fruit.-Vernacular names:The fruit is known as longan or longyan in English...
and litchi trees. The farm was divided into three sections consisting of cultivation area, planting area and living area.
Family Homes
The family home is the place where five to six trainees live a normal life with the help of a house mother. Trainees are able to learn how to take care of themselves and other individual living skills under an atmosphere with love. Also, They have right to share community facililties and maintain environmental sanitation. The first Family Home was established in 2001, and the Family Home Service Department was set up in 2005. Now, there are thirteen Family Homes for trainees with mental disabilities