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扶輪社員柯樂伯訪問中學生，包括賀清(音譯 He Quing，圖左)，在他的家前面留影。烏鴉巢扶輪社正在贊助賀清接受教育，並支付了緊急盲腸手術，救了他一命 Rotarian Bjorn Kollberg visits with middle school students, including He Qing (left), in front of the boy's home. The Rotary Club of Crows Nest is sponsoring He Qing's schooling and also paid for an emergency appendectomy that saved his life. |
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在中國西北部山西省的Binxian縣，大部份的學童都受教於缺乏正式教師專業訓練的村塾老師。澳大利亞新南威爾斯的烏鴉巢(Crows Nest)扶輪社為此擴大傳統為期5年透過資助及監督興建16所學校，協助該地區教育的行動，目前正在幫助教師們提升教學技巧。
Most schoolchildren in Binxian County in northwest China's Shaanxi Province learn from village teachers who lack formal training in their profession. Expanding on a five-year tradition of aiding education in the area by funding and supervising the building of 16 schools, the Rotary Club of Crows Nest, New South Wales, Australia, is helping teachers upgrade their skills.
在與中國國際瞭解協會(Chinese Association for International Understanding)合作之下，烏鴉巢扶輪社的社員們於2001年執行了一個扶輪基金會輔助獎助金計畫，訓練了1100個小學教師，並提供工具書、書桌、椅子、及經費以使250個兒童得以留在學校。2002年底更發起了另一項類似行動，正在將這些改善擴展到該區域的其他學校。
Working with the Chinese Association for International Understanding, Crows Nest Rotarians carried out a Rotary Foundation Helping Grant project in 2001 that trained 1,100 primary school teachers and provided reference books, desks, chairs, and funds to enable 250 children to stay in school. A similar effort, launched in late 2002, is extending these improvements to other schools in the area.
雖然小學教育在中國是義務教育，貧窮人家還是無法支付低廉的學費，他們的小孩子被迫離開學校。烏鴉巢扶輪社所提供的獎學金是幫助兒童繼續接受教育，並為一個不受貧窮桎梏的未來做準備的主要工具。
Although primary education is compulsory in China, poorer families are unable to pay even the small fees required, compelling them to take their children out of school. Scholarship support from the Crows Nest club is an important means of helping children continue their education and build toward a future unshackled by poverty.
該計畫對Binxian縣的教育品質產生了長久性的作用。例如，2000年在一個輔助獎助金的協助之下所成立的教師自修訓練計畫做得非常成功，已經被縣教育局採用，讓該社轉為支持到該縣其他教育需求。該社也正在擴大服務範圍，準備在2003年進行保健計畫。
The projects are having a lasting effect on the quality of education in Binxian County. A self-study teacher training program aided by a Helping Grant in 2000, for example, was so successful that it was adopted by the Binxian Education Department, allowing the club to shift support to other county educational needs. The club is also expanding its efforts to include health care projects in 2003.
烏鴉巢扶輪社社員伯恩．柯爾伯(Bjorn Kollberg)跟該社前社長比爾．李(Bel-l Lee)曾到各個計畫現場訪問過幾次。他說：「我們的社員已經對澳大利亞及海外的扶輪社和其他組織，做了無數次的簡報。結果，我們得到相當大的支持，除了本社的捐獻之外，還有私人捐款、政府部門、以及國際扶輪的支持。」
"Our members have made countless presentations of our projects to other Rotary clubs in Australia and overseas and to other organizations," said Crows Nest Rotarian Bjorn Kollberg who, along with past club president Bill Lee, has made many on-site visits to the projects. "As a result, considerable support has been received from private donors, the Australian government, and RI in addition to the contributions from our club."