The theme of the USR Month Campaign at Beijing Normal University (BNU) is “Sustainable Development”. The Baige Youth Volunteer Association, an influencing student association at BNU, organized two programs to help its community to achieve sustainable development. One program focuses on environmental protection and the other focuses on delivering the concept of public welfare, to influence more selfless volunteers for the community.

Program 1: “Environmentally Friendly Life”

On 20 October, student volunteers organized a campus activity to collect old clothing, waste paper, expired medicines and other recyclables. The volunteers also designed interesting science popularization games to help other students learn more about environmental protection. Since 20 October was the day when freshmen returned to campus after military training, volunteers collected many old military training uniforms and publicized the concept of environmental recycling to freshmen.

More than 300 students participated in the event and 359.8 kg of clothing was collected for recycling.

Program 2: “Memoirs of Volunteers”

In October, several student volunteers interviewed the outstanding volunteers of BNU, who have rich volunteering experience and a deep understanding of volunteering spirit. The outstanding volunteers gave a lot of wishes and suggestions to volunteers who have just embarked on the road of voluntary public welfare.

After several talks and interviews, students wrote down the stories they heard with their personal reflections on the stories. They then made a series of reports under the topic “Move forward together with volunteer and love”. The articles were posted on the Baige Association’s social media platform.