On January 18th, China Daily published an article "Building a `bridge' to Nepal" ( a friendship bridge between China and Nepal) in its 7th edition, giving likes to Ganesh, an overseas student of the Three Gorges University, who has been doing volunteering job in Yichang.
Last October, the Three Gorges University and the Three Gorges Daily jointly launched the program "Yichang in the Eyes of Overseas students”,which reflects the development and changes of Yichang in the past 40 years of reform and opening up through in-depth interviews with overseas students of the Three Gorges University. Ganesh, who enjoys doing public welfare, is one of the overseas students interviewed and reported by our newspaper. Ganesh, the leader of the Volunteer Service Team of the International Students Association of Three Gorges University, have organized and participated in nearly 200 volunteer service activities within 8 years due to the influence of the volunteer service in Yichang,
On November 22nd, the Three Gorges Daily published the article Volunteer Service: Unforgettable and Special "Yichang Temperature” which attracted much concern from readers and the provincial media.On December 21st, the article Ganesh, a Foreign Volunteers: In China, we met the best of ourselves published by China News Network was forwarded by dozens of mainstream media, such as Xinhua New Media 100, CCTV and so on.
At present, there are nearly 600,000 registered volunteers in Yichang and more than 2,000 volunteer service organizations at all levels, forming a good social atmosphere of "everyone is a volunteer and everyone participates in volunteer service". (Reporters He Guanying, Liu Yue)