Wang Kexin: Donate to Hometown Where My Singing and Fencing Dream Started

21 June 2022


The Education Foundation of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China has widely received donations and support from all walks of life since its inception. In May 2022, the Foundation received a donation of 5,000 yuan from Wang Kexin, a girl from Ningbo. In June, we interviewed this young girl to hear her stories.

Wang Kexin is now 16 years old. She is a versatile and caring girl studying in the Barstow School Ningbo Campus. As an athlete of Ningbo Fencing Team, she has won many awards in national and provincial competitions. She loves singing and was invited to perform at the Zhejiang Province Teenager Spring Festival Gala. She takes an active part in student work, serving as the Minister of Sports Department and the radio station announcer of the Student Union. She is keen on public welfare. She donated her scholarships to contribute her love to the UNNC in her hometown.

Wang Kexin was a loving girl since her childhood. She often volunteers with her parents to help the people in need; At school, Wang Kexin set up a stall with his classmates, took all kinds of unused learning and living supplies and homemade items on the playground for charity sale, and she donated the money to children in need of help and care; She also joined the teaching activities to help students learn English in remote areas; When visiting the orphanage, she carefully prepared various games to accompany the young orphans. This year, with excellent results and rich extracurricular experience, Wang Kexin won the scholarship of the school. She asked her mother to save the scholarship in a bank account for people in need.

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Ms. Sun Yizhen, Wang Kexin's mother, attaches great importance to the education of her children and often browses the development trends of major universities at home and abroad. By chance, Ms. Sun read the donation news of UNNC through the Wechat official account of the Education Foundation of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China and learned that the Foundation had accepted donations from all walks of life to long-term support the University in talent training, scientific research, key discipline support and key laboratory construction. She logged into the official website of UNNC Education Foundation, and looked through the organizational structure, donation projects and donation procedures of the Foundation.

With the deepening understanding of the Foundation, Ms. Sun came up with the idea of encouraging her daughter to donate to UNNC. Ms. Sun found that the Foundation has set up a sound donation process. Meanwhile, the Foundation insists the open and transparent manegement and pubish the donation projects, donors, various management measures, annual reports and other information on the Foundation official website and wechat official account for the public to view. Moreover, after learning that the Foundation was granted the national highest level of certification as "5A social organization" by the Department of Civil Affairs of Zhejiang Province in 2019, Ms. Sun was confinced that The Educational Foundation of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China is a trusted charitable organization and she firmly recommended her daughter to donate to it.

With Ms. Sun’s encouragement, Wang Kexin donated the scholarship to the UNNC Education Foundation to support the campus construction. In Wang kexin's mind, UNNC is a university with a combination of Chinese and Western high-quality education resources. She often watches videos of class and campus scenery shared by UNNC students on the social media, and she is deeply attracted by the diverse campus. In the future, Wang Kexin dreams to study in world-famous universities, considering uncertain factors such as the development of the global Covid pandemic, staying in China to study is also one of Wang Kexin's plans, and UNNC is her first choice.

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Wang Kexin said: "My growth is inseparable from the love of my family. It is a kind of happiness for me to help others while enriching my life experience. "

When a young man is strong, the country is strong. Wang Kexin is undoubtedly an excellent representative of the all-round development of middle school students today. The development of public welfare undertakings of China is inseparable from the cultivation of charity awareness among teenagers. The mission of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China is to cultivate patriotic talents who have international vision and ability to integrate Chinese tradition with Western culture. The Education Foundation has always been adhering to the principle of “managing every sum of money well and doing every job well”, accepting donations from all walks of life to support and promote the long-term construction and development of the University. In the process of UNNC building a high-level sino-foreign cooperative university with distinctive international characteristics, the development of the University is inseparable from the charitable donations of every philanthropist, entrepreneur, partner and social caring person. Wang Kexin with her family has carried forward the spirit of charity. It is every kindness of the caring people, just like a trickle of water converging into a big ocean of love, that becomes an important force to promote education development. UNNC Education Foundation sincerely invites people who are enthusiastic about education and social welfare to donate to the University. You are welcome to contact us through the Foundation official website and wechat public platform.

In June, UNNC is shady with trees and full of birdsong and flowers. This summer, the campus has become extraordinarily colorful and luxuriant due to the kindness of the caring person.

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