Longwan Caring Home is located in Dahua County, which was listed as one of the poorest counties in Guangxi Province. Longwan Caring Home is a big family consisting of orphans, single-parent and left-behind children. The normal expense of the Home is sustained by plantation, breeding, and small business. On February 27th, a new semester began at Longwan Caring Home. It woke up from sweet vocation and life for another new semester began: Original article written by Aihua Ban, translated by Maggie Li and edited by Yanyan Zhang
Shanquan Youth Public Welfare Development Center works with marginalized children and other vulnerable groups in the western areas and Jiangsu province of China.
Most of the participants in today’s handicraft class were students from primary and secondary schools. The theme for the secondary school students was Magical Butterfly, and the theme for the primary school students was Creative Glasses. They were so attentive, and look at their works! Aren't they beautiful? Don't they surprise you? Original article written by Huijun Wu, translated by Maggie li and edited by Yanyan Zhang On behalf of the entire Orphan Impact team based in Vietnam, I can say that we are thrilled to be joining the East Villagers community! There are so many great stories here about the creative ways small non-profit organizations are making impact in vulnerable communities around the world. As a small project working in Vietnamese orphanages, we are very aware of the challenges facing organizations with limited resources, but also know firsthand that significant good can be done on a limited budget. It is privilege to join a community of individuals and organizations who share these same challenges and understand the commitment and perseverence required in running a non-profit organizations.
We were so fortunate to be recent recipients of a generous $20,000 grant from the Chao Foundation. It will be a great joy to work in partnership with the Transparent Fish Fund/Chao Foundation throughout 2013 to bring high quality computer & internet training to orphaned children in Vietnam. Throughout the year, we hope to use this forum to share our stories - both successes and challenges - as we work to grow our project and expand from 5 orphanages and 148 participating children to 13 orphanages and more than 500 participating children. Many thanks to our new partners in the Transparents Fish Fund & Chao Foundation. Thank you for providing us with the support we needed to expand our model (a model we have been working hard to develop over the past 3 years) to reach a significant number of orphaned children in some of the most impoverished provinces of Vietnam. We are so grateful to you for your support! Original article was written by Tad Kincaid The Burma Humanitarian Mission supports community based health-care and education projects that improve lives of the Burmese people. This is an article about religious freedom in Burma. Read more about the Burma Humanitarian Mission here.
The most recent list of U.S. companies seeking access to Burma for development and business is stunning: Chevron, General Motors, Target Corp., ConocoPhillips, Caterpillar, General Electric International, Honeywell and eBay. These are just a few of the 50 plus U.S. corporations meeting with Burma regime officials over the next two weeks as they start to move into Burma. Such a line-up reinforces an incongruous image of Western societies -- the icons of human rights and liberties -- as they are now colluding with the Burma regime, which continues to abuse and kill ethnic minorities living within Burma. In Karen State, where a cease-fire has been in the works for the past year, the Burma army is reinforcing its forces. They have set up additional checkpoints along key roads, extorting ‘taxes’ on Karen as they transit. The Burma Humanitarian Mission supports community based health-care and education projects that improve lives of the Burmese people. This is an article about religious freedom in Burma. Read more about the Burma Humanitarian Mission here.
In 2010-12, the Burma regime undertook a series of overt measures suggesting they had reformed their oppression of the people of Burma. Nobel Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, was allowed to travel internationally and series of personal restrictions were removed on the urban population. Seeking geo-political influence in the region, the US and western nations removed sanctions on Burma, prompting a surge in corporations seeking access to Burma’s natural resources (gems, teak, gas, ports, etc). Ahead of the international companies, the Regime broke a 17-year cease fire in Kachin State in order to seize territory for the ruling elite’s benefit. Another 100,000 men, women and children have fled their villages seeking sanctuary in IDP camps, refugee sites and similar locations. The violence and associated horrific, lethal health conditions now has come to the Kachin as it once was endemic to the Karen. The Burma Humanitarian Mission supports community based health-care and education projects that improve lives of the Burmese people. This is an article about religious freedom in Burma. Read more about the Burma Humanitarian Mission here.
For the past two years, Burma Humanitarian Mission has supported students completing classes at the Leadership and Management Training College at Mae La Refugee Camp (LMTC). The college provides university level education in physics and English to ethnic minorities who fled Burma out of fear for their lives and have no other higher education opportunity available. Even if they could gain admission to a University in Bangkok (which is daunting given they have no formal passport from Burma and are refugees), college costs are beyond their means. Thus, LMTC fills a critical gap to help educate the next generation of democracy leaders for the ethnic minorities and Burma. The operating costs of the school are sponsored by the organization Child’s Dream, but CD is not able to provide the funding for the living expenses for the students. HOW is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in the USA, whose staff consists of all volunteers. Its mission is to provide hope and care to neglected, abandoned, and orphaned children in deprived areas of the world with a specific focus on VietNam. So, we were there, at the appreciation party. This was the first meeting of our volunteers and also the first opportunity for us all to know more about each other. We had a lot of fun there with our new friends who HOW brought together. We were singing, playing and having a good meal side by side as a family. We were delighted that our work was taken seriously.
Our work in this program is to help the kids at Bình Triệu Center with their studying. We have been working with the kids at the center for almost one month. This is nothing much yet, but we are in progress. The kids’ studying will be better with our help. They are nice, and eager to learn. If they keep the good work, they will sure have a bright future. All they need is just a little help because the Sisters at the center can’t support them all with their studying. So, we try our best to give them all we have. Tutoring is not an easy work, but our team as well as the kids work hard together to have the best result. Later, we will help them learning English with the program HOW provides. Thanks to this, the kids will have necessary Basic English, which is really important for them to be successful in the future. HOW is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in the USA, whose staff consists of all volunteers. Its mission is to provide hope and care to neglected, abandoned, and orphaned children in deprived areas of the world with a specific focus on VietNam. Helping Orphan's Worldwide (HOW) Inc. has been very blessed with wonderful people helping so many people in ways one could not imagine! We have had many wonderful volunteers who have helped us to get to areas where there are hungry and impoverished people suffering in silence and some in such remote areas that it takes hours to get to them, and sometimes on food through very rough conditions. HOW has the most amazing volunteers who have close their small shops, taken unpaid days off work, gathered friends to help, and have joined together as a loving team to find these people and deliver much needed milk, rice, meat, fish, and fruit.
They have even gone through their clothing and asked others with very little to do the same and have delivered clothing along with food. HOW is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in the USA, whose staff consists of all volunteers. Its mission is to provide hope and care to neglected, abandoned, and orphaned children in deprived areas of the world with a specific focus on VietNam.
Helping Orphan's Worldwide (HOW) Inc. UPDATE AND WRAP UP FOR 2012! HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU ALL AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND LOVE! HOW is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in the USA, whose staff consists of all volunteers. Its mission is to provide hope and care to neglected, abandoned, and orphaned children in deprived areas of the world with a specific focus on VietNam. (Thi receives 6 month supply of EB Wound Care from Helping Orphans Worldwide, HOW) along with educational materials.
Since we HOW has been involved with EB (Epidermolysis Bullosa), which is a rare genetic skin disease that causes the skin to be so fragile that even the slightest touch will separate the layers of the skin. The skin literally breaks, resulting in painful blisters and open wounds. A mother may never be able to hold her child tightly because the skin would peel off and bleed. Children with EB may never run or play as other children because even the slightest friction will cause them great pain. EB occurs in every racial group throughout the world. Younger patients are sometimes called “Butterfly Children” because their skin is as fragile as a butterfly’s wings. |
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