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After completing the reinforcements and laying the new playground and car park up at SQR’s Guangji Kindergarten and Community Centre project, the next phase was immediately begun. A brand new building will not only replace one that was damaged beyond repair, but expand and improve on it too. The building will contain new classrooms, a dormitory for that all-important nap time, a kitchen capable of feeding 140 hungry mouths each and every day, and an environmental toilet.
Meanwhile, flu season is here. Principal Kang and her staff keep an eye on their students to make sure no one is neither unduly suffering nor spreading the illness to their classmates. Temperatures are taken as the students arrive at school every morning — any sign of fever and the parents or grandparents are advised to take them back home or to the local clinic.
Until now the staff had been using traditional thermometers, which is not ideal when handling such a large number of people. On one of our regular visits to the school, SQR brought along a brand new non-contact thermometer, which can accurately read the temperature from a few centimetres away, in under a second. The new gadget not only brings a hygenic benefit, but the added speed means the staff can give the grandparents a quick temperature-check too.
