Voices
At first the books came individually, and then there was a flood of them. After Tim Worm (SFS ’10) posted a message on RenRen, China’s equivalent of Facebook, pleading for help in procuring English-to-Chinese dictionaries for his class of more than 50 students in rural China, the result was a deluge of packages and messages.
“I got a bunch of friend requests, with everyone saying ‘Thank you so much for helping us out,’” he said.
While he and his fellow teachers at the middle school were amazed at the kindness and generosity of strangers, the feeling was very much mutual. Worm’s new RenRen friends appreciated graduates from top-flight institutions in China and America who were spending two years of their professional lives at rural schools in the Teach for China program.
By
Nirjhor Rahman
November 17, 2011
