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The specific benefits to the participant will depend on the skill chosen, but there are some benefits that are more general. These, in addition to the fact that the activity should be enjoyable and matched to the overall outcomes and impacts for the Award, include:

• Discovering and developing new abilities, or improving on existing talents

• Increasing self-confidence by successfully setting and achieving a goal

• Refining awareness of one’s own potential

• Developing time management and planning skills

• Enhancing self-motivation

• Interacting socially by meeting new people and interacting with other people, often older, in a meaningful way

• Improving employability by learning vocational skills

The types of activities for the Skills div can be grouped broadly into the following categories:

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Taking part in any form of physical activity should be enjoyable and has many benefits, including:

• Developing a healthy lifestyle

• Improving fitness

• Increasing self-esteem

• Interacting socially, especially in a team sport, but also through meeting people with interest in a similar individual sport

• Enhancing self-discipline, perseverance and self-motivation

• Experiencing a sense of achievement

• Raising awareness of the variety of opportunities available in the area

• Encouraging teamwork, if the activity is a team sport

• Enjoyment

The types of activities for the Physical Recreation div can be grouped broadly into the following categories:

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The specific benefits will obviously depend on the type of voluntary service chosen. The general benefits – matched to the overall Award Outcomes – include:

• Learning patience, tolerance, and compassion

• Overcoming ignorance, prejudice, apathy and fear

• Increasing awareness of the needs and challenges of others

• Exploring and improving interpersonal skills and self-development skills

• Enhancing leadership qualities

• Trusting and being trusted

• Making a real difference to the lives of others

• Accepting the responsibility of commitment to others

• Meeting new people from different backgrounds

• Forming a lifelong habit of community involvement

• Enjoyment and a sense of satisfaction in helping others

• Being able to relate to others from different generations

There are many people and organisations that are willing to provide participants with opportunities for practical service. These include: social workers, doctors, religious leaders, schools, hospital, youth departments, conservation groups, local government authorities, voluntary youth organisations, animal welfare organisations, service clubs, and agencies which work internationally and both national and international non-governmental organisations or agencies. Activities should generally fall into the following categories:

爱莎公益基金｜ISA Charity Fund

Under the support from ISA Charity Fund, ISA Liwan combines curriculums with the charity programmes, such as Charity Walkathon, Visiting children with hearing-impaired, Charity Booth in the ISA Festival etc. Students have the opportunity to lead and organize charity events and improve their leadership, problem-solving and teamwork skills.

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The specific benefits will obviously depend on the type of Adventurous Journey chosen. The general benefits – matched to the overall Award Outcomes – include:

• Working as part of a team

• Understanding group dynamics, the participant’s own role and the role of others in a team

• Enhancing leadership skills

• Improving planning and organisational ability, and attention to detail

• Learning to make real decisions and accept real consequences

• Obtaining a sense of achievement and satisfaction by overcoming challenges and obstacles

• Developing self-reliance and independence

• Developing health and fitness

• Experiencing and appreciating the outdoor environment

• Gaining the appropriate knowledge and skills to journey safely in that environment

• Exercising imagination and creativity by choosing their own journey

• Improving their investigating, reviewing and presentational skills

The types of activities for the Skills div can be grouped broadly into the following categories:

1. Expedition

An Expedition is a journey with a purpose.

In an Expedition, the primary focus is on

the journeying, for which broadly two thirds of the purposeful effort must be spent journeying, with less effort put into research and gathering information. For example, undertaking a journey by foot in the Atlas Mountains whilst exploring the affects of the terrain on team morale.

2. Exploration

An Exploration is a purpose with a journey. In an Exploration, the primary focus is to observe and collect information relevant to the purpose. More time and effort is spent on this, and consequently less time is devoted to getting from one place to another. The journeying aspect remains significant, however, with a minimum of

broadly one third of the purposeful effort being spent on journeying. For example, comparing the differences between the urban and rural environment whilst undertaking an exploration in the Hardangervidda National Park.

Action Week｜Under the guidance of the leaders, ISA Liwan students went to Guizhou to explore mysterious cave species, observe cave creatures and learn about biodiversity.