Five-year Annivesary of Shanghai Xu Bo Culture Exchange

In 2010, we are delighted to celebrate our fifth anniversary! It has been an exciting and rewarding five years and we'd like to take a minute to highlight some of the key accomplishments and events.

March 1, 2005	The company incorporates in Shanghai
Summer, 2005	The first group of British volunteers join the summer camp for low-income families in Shanghai. A Britain English Month was organized to spur students’interest in English and acquaint them with British culture.
September, 2005	The second group of British volunteers are distributed to 6 different Shanghai elementary and secondary schools.
2006	The number of British volunteers reaches 60. They are distributed to 20 schools, including those of peasant workers' children. Four groups of volunteers are sent to Shanghai Disabled Children Center, to help disabled and Cerebral Palsey children with daily life tasks and to teach simple, everyday English.
2006	Our volunteers receive high praise from the Shanghai Disabled Children Center and from elementary and secondary schools, for helping develop educational business opportunities for the disabled.
2007	We set up cooperative relationships with five oversea nonprofit volunteering agencies, from the countries of Holland, German, Norway, America and Ireland.
2007	Our volunteer bases expand from central Shanghai city to remote surburbs (like Chongming Island, Changxing Island, and Hengsha Island) and to the city of Suzhou.
Spring, 2008	We establish a working relationship with the Education Bureau in Peicheng District, Sichuan, and send the first group of volunteers to elementary and secondary schools in the city of MianYang. Following the terrible earthquake on May 12th, 2008, our volunteers in MianYang is praised by the Education Bureau and reported on by local TV coverage.
Summer, 2008	The company launches our first "One World Project" an event organized by our volunteers from all over the world in order to promote understanding about the world promote peace. The number of students who benefit from this activity is over 1,000.
2008	Xu Bo joins the Federation EIL, a renowned non-profit international volunteer organization based in the USA. This alliance expands our volunteer base to 22 more countries, worldwide. Federation EIL was founded in 1954 and aims to promote the development of volunteer projects. Federation EIL has a close cooperative relationship with United Nations' ECOSOC since 1978 and with the European Council since 1981. Volunteer projects promoted include: helping needy families, children, problem teenagers, and disabled people helping to protect national parks and natural environments teaching English, French, computer, art, dancing, sports and etc. helping with the medical system infrastructure in rural areas helping to look after abandoned or AIDS children carrying out instructions for environmental protection helping to take care of homeless people assistaing single mothers to look after their children helping impoverished people improve their living quality, and creating more opportunities for them helping local people develop handicraft skills, such as pottery helping to develop local educational business opportunities
April, 2009	A volunteer base in Zhengzhou is officially established and the first group of volunteers are sent there
Summer, 2009	Xu Bo establishes a relationship with the US government's American Councils and launches the NSLI-Youth Program. Upon successful completion of the program, Xu Bo receives an honorary credential from the Deputy Assistant Secretary of United States.
Summer, 2009	"German Week” and “Britain Week” University Camps are launched by our international volunteers and the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade. Students and volunteers learn more about each others' cultures through various activities.
November, 2009	Xu Bo is granted affiliate membership in the Work Abroad Program of the World Youth Student and Educational Travel Confederation (WYSE.) WYSE is the world-renowned expert on international youth travel, volunteer programs and international education.
January, 2010	We establish a new non-profit branch in Singapore to cooperate with Singapore Volunteer Charity Foundation on protecting wild animals, caring for disabled people and assisting local non-profit organizations.
January, 2010	We extend our working relationship the Mianyang Education Bureau in Sichuan Province to place our volunteers in special schools and in countryside schools where they can devote themselves to improving local education.
January, 2010	Our international volunteers give an English training course to local English teachers in Mianyang Education Bureau.
Feburary, 2010	Our company is interviewed by Madam Ye Zhihua, the hostess of a local radio program dedicated to helping disabled persons. The program informs the Chinese public about how our international volunteers play a role in helping the disabled.
March, 2010	We continue and expand our relationship with the US Department of State's NSLI-Youth program. This time, two separate groups of students attend the program in Shanghai and Zhengzhou, with wonderful support and cooperation of the ZhengZhou Education Bureau and the Shanghai ChangNing Education institute.
April, 2010	Xu Bo's general manager is interviewed by a local newspaper reporter in Germany, to explain and promote our Chinese cultural exchange projects.
May, 2010	Xu Bo offers a new program to recruit German and Australian students to study in Chinese high schools.
May, 2010	The company receives an honorary credential from the Deputy Assistant Secretary of United States.
Summer,2010	For the first time, the university student summer camp is supported by Shanghai Xuhui Disabled People Federation.
September, 2010	The company applies for non-profit organization status in Jian’an District, Shanghai.