timeline.
research.
To begin with, we did comprehensive research on the background information of Economic Inequality including its origin, impacts, and policies. To make this a more holistic research, we separated into groups and did research on inequality globally, civically, and nationally. Through our research, we realized that there are various factors that determined inequality such as government policies. However, the biggest challenge is to deal with generational wealth. Those whose families have wealth have many more opportunities for success compared to those who come from poorer families and areas.
raising awareness.
In order to showcase our research, we did an event at an assembly in school to teach students about the things we learned and aimed to raise awareness of economic inequality to the student group. We did a simulation where each volunteer represented a member in a social class. Throughout the simulation, we dropped out different events and news that would affect their status quo. The main goal is to let them realize that economic inequality is a real issue and people often have few choices when dealing with this issue.
lemonade sale.
The lemonade sale was planned by Elijah Bang and Yifan Ruan from the AP Macroeconomics class. It was run during the lunch of May 24th, 2019, targeting the audiences walking out of the Pep Rally session held in the newly built gym of THIS. Two students spent an afternoon and morning juicing 55 lemons, making lemon juice for approximately 90-100 cups of lemonade. Most transactions were made throughout the WeChat Pay, made total profit of 400.44 RMB.
homemade drink sale.
The drink sale was one of the activities we held in order to reach our goal of raising 10,000 RMB. Alice Gong and Michelle Zhou took charge of this activity. May 21st, 23rd, and 24th were days they sold drinks. In total, they sold 67 cups of drinks within three days and earned 1,212 RMB. All the money they made was donated to We Charity.
video game tournament.
People donated through participating in an online game tournament. Each person donated 15 RMB to play. Throughout the whole process, 40 people have donated their money and showed their kindness, helping us to gain 300 RMB after reducing the money in the jackpot.
dance medley performance.
One of the activities we held is the public dance performance---The Little Mermaid. This dance show is originally created by our dance club students based on Anderson's fairytale and displayed by various of types of dance. The ticket profits gained from this performance directly go to an organization named We Villege which is mainly helping the water wells in the rural China regions.
"Her entire heart for a human life and an immortal soul."
Our entire hearts for providing them with a cleaner water booth and a better living condition.
accomplishment.
The organization we are cooperating with this time is called We charity, a group dedicated to help with poverty in the community around the world. Reducing economic inequality seems to work out perfectly with what they have been all along doing. We were planning to raise 10000 to build water wells and water infrastructure for some communities in China initially but ended up getting double the amount, donating 20022 Kuai, and the excessive money (money excessive of that 10000) will be given to a primary school in Anhui province to enrich their educational resources.
