Education/Vocational Program

he Grace Children's Foundation (TGCF) is working to establish and implement a curriculum, based on Chinese academic standards, aimed to raise the level of academic and vocational instruction available to orphaned and disadvantaged children. This curriculum will be tailored for older children and those with special needs. It will focus on vocational training with an emphasis on special education components.

The China Children's and Teenagers Fund (CCTF), TGCF's cooperating partner in China, will identify older children, those past infant and toddler ages, who will benefit from formalized academic and vocational training. CCTF will identify those children with special needs who are blind, hearing impaired, autistic and literacy deficient as well as those with limited basic life skills or vocational training. Based on this information, TGCF and our education and corporate partners will design and fund a curriculum that will best suit the needs of the children.

TGCF has plans underway to establish an Education and Vocational Training Center in China.

The Education Program will respect the traditional approach to teaching and learning in China. The vocational component to the program will provide practical applications of the curriculum for the children as they prepare to enter society. At the same time, TGCF and its partners and affiliates are planning an Education and Vocational Training Center where disadvantaged teenagers will receive more instruction on basic life skills, continue their education and receive vocational training.

TGCF's Education Program will attract Chinese and American universities and educators and will employ teachers and social workers.

The Education Program reaches across cultures and is the catalyst for TGCF's Grace Youth Initiative. The Grace Youth Initiative works with groups of children, teens, college students and young professionals across America to raise awarenes and funds to support the Education Program.

Through the establishment of the Resource Exchange Center (REC) in Beijing, TGCF's Education Program will help the children transition into productive members of society.

This child is reading aloud for the first time after receiving a hearing aid.