Youth Care Project
Supported by China Minsheng Bank's ME Program with RMB 500,000 in dedicated funding and guided by the Changhai County government, this project has established a standardized 7-in-1 youth care service system, comprehensively safeguarding the healthy development of border island youth. A total of 11 standardized children's warehouse sites have been built across Dalian, Xinjiang, and Changhai County.
Bringing financial philanthropy to island communities, addressing critical local needs
The ME Program is a nationwide philanthropic empowerment initiative jointly launched by China Minsheng Bank and the China Foundation for Rural Development. It focuses on rural revitalization, grassroots livelihood improvement, and youth development, leveraging dedicated philanthropic funds and collaborating with local governments, organizations, and social groups to deliver sustainable community services.
DLYCA, supported by ME Program RMB 500,000 in dedicated funding and guided by the Municipal Communist Youth League, Social Work Department, and Changhai County authorities, has launched the ME Program · Island Children's Warehouse Youth Care Project.
Changhai County, as Liaoning Province's only border island county, features vast maritime areas and dispersed islands. Local youth face chronic challenges including limited after-school educational resources, lack of summer care, insufficient parent-child engagement, and elevated maritime safety risks. The project addresses these pain points through standardized facility construction, professional youth changemaker services, and systematic care programs — creating a model for financial philanthropy empowering grassroots youth services.
11 standardized children's warehouse sites forming a national service matrix
Inclusive services for local community youth with year-round operations
Extending youth care services to county-level communities in northern Dalian
Newly built island-specialized standardized children's warehouses for border island youth
East-West collaboration initiative, promoting cross-regional resource sharing
Unified construction and standardized operations through ME Program resources, achieving a multi-dimensional philanthropic framework encompassing Dalian downtown, Zhuanghe, Changhai Islands, and Xinjiang Shihezi.
Comprehensively addressing island youth needs across learning, daily life, psychology, safety, and arts education
Open daily during summer with university changemaker staffing for consistent service
Specialized courses on maritime drowning prevention, tide risk awareness, extreme weather response, and internet safety
Summer care, homework tutoring, reading programs, and study habit development
Group counseling, one-on-one emotional support, and parent-child wellness workshops
Ocean culture, fishing heritage, and local ecology-based experiential learning and arts education
Sports viewing, team-building activities, and creative workshops to enrich cultural life and foster community pride
One-on-one pairing for left-behind and disadvantaged children with growth portfolios, home visits, and dynamic tracking
Breaking the single-mode philanthropy paradigm through a four-party collaborative mechanism
ME Program dedicated funding as the core engine, channeling quality financial philanthropic resources to island communities
Coordinated guidance from the Communist Youth League, Social Work Department, and Changhai County authorities
Leveraging university youth changemaker networks to serve island communities at the grassroots level
Precisely connecting philanthropic resources, youth capacity, community needs, and governance frameworks
Innovation Model: "Financial Philanthropy + Government Guidance + Youth Changemakers + Community Governance" — a four-party collaborative model creating a standardized, systematic, sustainable island children's warehouse brand.
Documenting project outcomes and providing a replicable standardization template
To solidify ME Program outcomes and unify service standards, the project has published the Island Youth Summer Care Service White Paper, comprehensively documenting the service system, implementation processes, operational guidelines, and evaluation standards — creating a replicable, scalable, and sustainable standardized youth service model for island and grassroots communities nationwide.
Continuing to strengthen the "Island Children's Warehouse" brand, safeguarding the healthy development of border island youth
Effectively addressing Changhai County's youth care deficiencies — resolving summer care difficulties, limited companionship, weak educational resources, and safety concerns that trouble local families
As a UN Observer-status charitable organization, DLYCA leverages its platform as a Communist Youth League-affiliated social organization to mobilize university youth changemakers, integrate cross-sector philanthropic resources, and provide professional operational management with full-process standardization support
Leveraging the ME Program national platform to expand site coverage, optimize standardized services, enrich program content, and strengthen long-term operational mechanisms
Delivering refined, regularized, and branded philanthropic services to safeguard the healthy development of border island youth, continuously contributing to Changhai County's high-quality economic and social development and grassroots livelihood improvement.
Whether you are a university changemaker, caring individual, or partner organization, there is a way for you to help safeguard island youth.
