Shen Jinfeng

• Shen Jinfeng: Chairman of Foundation of Intercultural Participation of Chinese Families. Certified child and adolescent psychotherapist and family education counselor in the Netherlands; Master of Clinical Psychology of Children and Adolescents from the Free University of Amsterdam, and Master of Family Education with Honors from Leiden University.

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• "I worked as a university teacher before coming to the Netherlands in 2008. In the process of close communication with students, I saw the important role that parents, schools and culture play in a person's talents and psychological development. This inspired me to do something for children, to help them grow mentally healthy and fully realize their potential. So I came to study in the Netherlands to learn about child psychology.

• Later, I raised two children and worked in family education counseling and adolescent psychotherapy in the Netherlands. In the process of parenting and working, I found that Chinese children in the Netherlands face unique challenges in their growth. They switch between Chinese cultural families and Dutch cultural schools every day, trying to integrate the confusion brought by cultural differences and find their own identity. Some children may become dissatisfied with Chinese culture and have a gap with their parents because of some biased reports on China by the Dutch media, some explicit or implicit racial discrimination in school, and lack of sufficient emotional support in the family. They cannot find the meaning of their own existence during adolescence, which leads to psychological or behavioral problems, and some may even be unable to continue their studies. Because Chinese culture has always advocated solving problems independently, they do not easily tell others about the problems they and their children encounter, or seek professional help. Only when the problems become more complicated and difficult to solve, do they accept help at the request of the school or social workers. However, due to language and cultural differences, it is difficult to get appropriate help. All of this has brought great pain to Chinese children and parents. And all of this could have been prevented.

• Therefore, we established the Netherlands Chinese Children's Foundation, hoping to accompany and support Chinese children in the Netherlands by organizing various cultural and social activities for Chinese children and their parents, so that they can find their own identity in the Chinese-Dutch dual culture and grow up healthily and vigorously; we also support Chinese parents to actively participate in bicultural social activities, so that they and their children can find their own spiritual belonging and happiness in Dutch society. "