Ms. Zhou focuses on mental and psychological counseling for woman in rural areas. To learn more, click here.
-- On March 17, I was talking with the headmistress of a kindergarten about several problems with stay-at- home children, mother education, junk food and nonsense games children had. I assigned several tasks to the headmistress. 1. To promote Chinese Culture Education from the beginning of reading Di Zi Gui. 2. To encourage parents to join the parent meeting instead of grandparents. 3. To advocate family reading activity. At the moment, the headmistress was worried that children were too young to understand ancient Chinese prose, so parents and leaders wouldn’t support it. Based on my experience, I showed her concrete methods and expected to see results. To my surprise, in just one month, my guidance brought amazing effects. Nearly 200 children had recited most paragraphs of Di Zi Gui; all the children could dance san zi jing chopsticks; and 38 mothers had applied to join the “Happy Mum Reading Club” I was going to establish. The headmistress was very excited. Many education leaders learned about it and they supported and promoted all the activities I carried out here. On Children’s Day, I wanted to hold two activities—Mother Education Lecture and All reading Di Zi Gui. Mothers’ quality, children education and townspeople civilization will change a lot in less a year. My cautious plans were carried successfully out and I believe we have a bright future. Mr. Zhao and partners of Transparent Fish, I will bring good news to all of you. I believe I am worthy of your trust. Original article written by Yonghong Zhou, translated by Ma Shishi, and edited by US intern Isabel Auyeung. Light of Love is a student initiative that strives to improve the quality of life in rural China. More specifically, their project Loving Lunch puts their mission into practice by traveling to rural schools and providing underprivileged children with food. The article below describes a day of service at a particular rural school. For more information about Light of Love, please click here.
-- At 11:00 noon time, Lu Tang Primary school’s bell triggered the students’ appetite. The ravenous children rushed to eat lunch. When the volunteers walk into each classroom, they saw braised potatoes, mushroom and pork stir-fry, and seaweed egg soup. Everything smelled amazing! Eating the delicious food, the students’ faces exuded with happiness. When asked about how they feel about lunch, they all said: Delicious! In this 4th grade class, Cheng Shaomin seemed especially happy. A petite girl, who was adopted by her grandmother ten years ago, she never really felt loved by her parents. ever since she entered school, she has been very different from the other students. Every morning, she gets up at around 6:30, eating a very light breakfast or nothing at all. Then she heads for school. At noon, she watched her classmates consume their packed lunches from home with jealousy, though most of her classmates only had cold and poorly prepared items to quell their own hunger. As a result, she continued to get thinner. At the same time, She became cold, depressed, and alienated. Because of the work of Light of Love, Chang Shaomin and other 54 students can all enjoy a healthy and loving lunch. Her grades also improved overtime. Loving lunch not only helps Chang Shaomin, but also made other students feel the “Light of Love” shining. Original article written by Dai XianWei, translated by ShiShi Ma, and edited by US intern Sarah Chang. People with leprosy are sent to isolated places without families or friends to support them emotionally of physically. They are abandoned and forgotten by society. The Shalom Leprosy Compassion Ministry has a heart for these people and organizes groups of volunteers to travel to leprosy villages and provide medical, living, and psychological assistance. The following article is a group of volunteers providing medicine for anabrosis patients. To learn more about the Shalom Leprosy Compassion Ministry, click here.
-- It was a lucky April for the leprosy patients, especially for those who had anabrosis—with the help of an American college student and an old nurse Nancy, 5 boxes of medicine were taken to KunMing from the USA. Anabrosis is a disease that not only causes pain, infection, and fever, but is extremely detrimental to their life and health. These leprosy patients that also had anabrosis desperately hoped for a kind of medicine that would cure their aching disease. With the help of volunteers, the Shalom team was able to send medicine to Zhushan and Yangjuangou in Yiliang on April 15th. They even changed the medicine for 9 patients. After instructing the patients on how to properly use the medicine, the team left the patients a week's worth of medicine. On April 21st, there was fantastic news from patients. Their anabrosis had become much better and their nagging pain gradually disappeared. Granulation tissue began to grow in the wounds. The next day, Nancy and other volunteers went to Aziying of Kunming. There, they applied MEDIHONEY and provided new socks for patients. On April 23rd, Timmy, a teacher from Texas of the USA, and the Shalom team fetched water from the mountain six times in order to prepare clean drinking water for the patients. Two days later, Nancy, Liang Ping, and other volunteers visited patients again. This time, they focused on the patients’ recovery and gave them more guidance on how to use the medicine. Shalom and the recovered patients gave many thanks to Nancy, Dimay, and the other volunteers, and especially thanked the USA company that provided them the free medicine. At the same time, we also appreciated Kunming volunteers’ participation and cooperation. Original Article written by Ping Liang, translated by ShiShi Ma, and edited by US intern Kevin Mo. Hemophilia Home of China, founded in September in 2009, in an NGO that provides treatment and financial aid for hemophiliac patients. If children with hemophilia can receive early intervention, many of them can enjoy the same health as normal children. Unfortunately, hemophilia treatment is extremely expensive; many families, especially rural families, cannot afford treatment for children. To learn more about Hemophilia Home of China, click here.
-- On April 27, Beijing blew strong winds, but the strong winds could not blow out the thankful fire in our hearts. On April 17, 2012, the day of the 24th World Hemophiliac Day, Hemophilia Home of China and Rare Disease Care Center held public benefit activities in the Shijingshan Wal-mart, Zhichun Road Wal-mart, and Wanjing Wal-mart stores. Our staff contacted the Wal-mart Group before activities. On hearing that we wanted to hold public benefit activities in the hall of Wal-mart stores, they were willing to support us and allocated areas for us at once, which helped us greatly. We spread basic knowledge about hemophiliacs to the public during the activities. In order to let more people know about hemophiliacs and help them, we discussed the particular difficulties hemophiliacs were going through. Holding a flag that read “Care for hemophiliacs, love unites in Wal-mart” in our hands, we took grateful hearts to the Wal-mart stores. Thanks to their help, we could successfully hold the event. Here on, Hemophilia Home of China would like to give their thanks to all the staff of Wal-mart. Thank you for your love and support. We believe that pain and difficulties are no longer problems as long as love exists in the world. Facing life and future we will become stronger. Original article written by Han Xu, translated by Shishi Ma, and edited by US intern Kaitlyn Cheung. Hemophilia Home of China expresses their gratitude towards Wal-mart for helping host the event: 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.
MEET HUY! Huy is 14 years old and has lived with EB (Epidermolysis Bullosa) for his entire life. Huy's mother is as much of a hero as Huy is! She spends between 3 and 5 hours a day Administrating not only EB bathing, blister attention, gentle wrapping and very tenderly wrapping his very painful wounds. The whole our brave little friend is in excruciating pain and does belt out a number of screams, swear words, feelings of frustration, anger and after it’s all done, he apologies, and expresses love, appreciation , gratitude and comfort until the next wound care session. 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. WHAT IS EB (EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA) (Names are changed to protect the children and help)
EB (Epidermolysis Bullosa) 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. In developing countries, such as Vietnam, these children have virtually lived an invisible existence. Due to the lack of medical technology and resources, children with EB are sent home without a proper diagnosis or instructions for care. The families, often already living in poverty, are left to fend for themselves and their sick children. Tu Zhuanjia: Rural Experts is an organization dedicated to improve their community and help others grow by addressing issues within the community and accumulating a network of leaders to solve them. To find out more, click here.
-- Yesterday we (Wu Jing and Wang Ying) saw the Education Counselor. We mentioned that what we had done in the Youth League Committee of universities played an important role in the twenty-year history of public welfare, and how could we take a leading role in the innovative project of developing the Youth League Committees of cities and towns in the future. Our opinions won his support. In particular, he mentioned that we should strengthen our cooperation with the second and third Normal Universities, which would be essential for developing teachers. Today we are going to accompany the Vice President of the leading delegation of East China Normal University to visit the Haas Center for Public Service of Stanford University. Original Article was written by Wu Jing and Wang Ying, translated by Shishi Ma, and edited by Intern Emily Cheng. Wild Lily Foundation is an NGO that focuses on supporting school children with generally low nutrient intake, and helping them to balance their physical and mental developments.
-- On April 25, we spent two hours traveling to the Victory Primary School. We wanted to know the current progress of our egg program. On the morning of April 26, we woke up at 7 a.m. after hearing children's voices. The workers of the school had already boiled eggs before breakfast, and the teachers were distributing the eggs to students before the examination. Our goal is to have the "Nutrition Improvement Program" carry out in every school by the end of the month. After communicating with the headmaster, we established that every morning there would be a daily distribution of eggs. Original article written by Xiao Gang Fan, translated by Shishi Ma, and edited by US intern Sophia Huang. Little Red Scarf CARE serves to provide financial means and encouragement to children suffering from congenital heart disease. In addition, they provide the family with post-operative care and help their child sustain a healthy lifestyle. To learn more about Little Red Scarf CARE, click here.
-- It was a sunny and romantic day with catkin flying in the sky. It was International Labor Day so it was much busier in Lanzhou Wuquanshan Park than on ordinary days. People like camping or gathering with family on vacation days. Lanzhou Greenbelt Volunteer Center carried out an animal protection activity. We wanted to seize the opportunity to promote Little Red Scarf. With the help of Mr. Li, we entered the zoo successfully and met volunteers of the Animal Protection Association from different universities. We hope they could help us promote Little Red Scarf so as to make more people know Little Red Scarf and Transparent Fish Fund. We also distributed flyers to visitors. There was exciting news that somebody who needed help had consulted the Little Red Scarf union yesterday. They said their relatives got the flyer in Wuquanshan Park. It showed what we had done was effective and we expect that more people know about Little Red Scarf and Transparent Fish. Original article written by Ying Guan, translated by Shishi Ma, and edited by US intern Emily Cheng. 23 patients applied for help (16 in Lanzhou hospital and 7 in General hospital).
21 patients were admitted to a hospital (15 in Lanzhou hospital and 6 in General hospital). 20 patients were cured and left the hospital (13 in Lanzhou hospital and 7 in General hospital). 1 patient died (1 in Lanzhou first hospital and none in General hospital). 11 patients were reexamined in April. 26 patients are waiting to be cured, of which 7 have accepted operations in other cities. 19 patients are still waiting according to the following plan: 1. To continue the work in Lanzhou First Hospital and General Hospital. 2. To learn about the congenital heart disease procedures in other hospitals. 3. To promote the Little Red Scarf. Original article written by Ai Ju Chang, translated by Shishi Ma, and edted by US intern Emily Cheng. |
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