"One Village One Preschool Henan Post-Disaster Reconstruction" Project Conducts Children's Environmental Theater Performance in Jun County in Henan

In late July 2021, Henan Province was hit by extreme weather, causing flooding and other serious disasters. To help Jun County in Henan rebuild, and to improve the quality of preschool education in Jun County through continuous training and resource support, the "One Village One Preschool (OVOP) Henan Post-Disaster Reconstruction" project, initiated by the China Development Research Foundation, funded by the Tianjin The Rockcheck Puji Foundation, and supported by Beijing Open University Training Institute, Shenzhen One Foundation, and Flying Seeds, was launched. The project aims to support the reconstruction of preschools in Jun County and to improve the quality of local preschool education through the OVOP Program.

The project uses the artistic and educational function of drama to help children in disaster areas to "rebuild their hearts". Since April 2022, the project team has held several training sessions, including online lectures, offline drama workshops, and environmental drama rehearsals. More than 100 front-line teachers from preschools in Jun County participated in the training.

During the past Labour Day holiday, the project team successfully finished the training course and successfully completed held an environmental drama performance. Nineteen children from different towns in Jun County worked together from getting to know each other to discussing the topic of "what is life", to drawing the scenery and designing and making the costumes for the performance, they completing an original production based on a fusion of local intangible cultural heritage folklore and the myth of Nuwa. The main feature of the performance is environmental drama, and the creative team chose the location of the performance in the cloister area of the South City Gate of the old city of Jun County, which has a historical and cultural atmosphere. In the ancient wooden corridor filled with children's nature paintings, the children chanted the rhymes, and the heavy history of the folklore and the fresh "flowers" born here were reflected in the performance.