Jinshui Social Service Center is located in Zhengzhou City of Henan Province. Since its establishment, it serves for needy persons, families, groups and organizations with professional knowledge and skills. The organization has 10 full-time staff.



It's flu season! In order to increase pubic awareness on flu prevention, social workers of Jinshui Social Service Center participated in experiential activity held by the hospital.

We had employees and members of the public gather on the first floor and explain procedure of processing patients. There is a new online registration system that the hospital is trying to implement and this was a great opportunity to provide training on some of the ins and outs of the new processes. 

Then, we had medical experts introduce information on prevention and treatment of common infectious diseases.  The presentation allowed people who are not health care practitioners to take a more proactive approach to handling their health care. 
                                                                                           

Original article written by Yao Li, translated by Maggie Li, edited by Yanyan Zhang

Jinshui Social Service Center is located in Zhengzhou City of Henan Province. Since its establishment, it serves for needy persons, families, groups and organizations with professional knowledge and skills. The organization has 10 full-time staff.

Cao Zhengtao's mother has a hearing disability and suffers from mental illness. He is deaf and mute, along with his wife, brother, sister in law.   His mother has been paralyzed for 4 years. His brother accepted surgery due to lymph cancer last year.  Cao Zheng also has to take care of three children.  

Neighbors and strangers have helped support them in times of need, but Cao Zhengtao is struggling to stay afloat. While we provided financial support for Cao Zhengtao's family, we wanted to give them access to more sustainable funds. We invited a news reporter to raise awareness for their family. Hopefully, more donations and nonprofits can come in and help out the Cao family.     

Original article written by Yao Li, translated by Maggie Li, edited by Yanyan Zhang

The Light of Love Public Welfare Development Center is located in Nanjing, China. It is dedicated to the development of rural education and community public welfare.

Our nonprofit “Light of Love” first began in 2008 and completed the registration process on June 15th, 2013.  It is the first nonprofit in China to focus solely on drug safety, drug development, and health services. We aim to help everyone take better care of their health, minimize cases of drug over-use, and prevent illnesses, and as a result lower governmental expenses for medical services. 

Our organization began working with Transparent Fish Fund in 2011, when we started a free lunch program for poorer children at an elementary school in Zunyi, Guizhou with the help of TFish. Since 2011, we have grown together with Transparent Fish Fund. Back then, “Light of Love” was still a high school club working with other nonprofits. That experience was our first time working with “Transparent Fish Fund,” a nonprofit that advocates financial transparency. During 2011 and 2012, while we participated in TFish’s financial training program and worked with them, our organization began to organize our own finances and categorize and record our budget and expenditures. During this time when we focused on finances, we found a great mentor and began to use a great method to keep our finances in order. All of this proved to be very important to the development of our organization later on. TFish’s project funding application is very detailed, which taught us to be specific and thorough and gave us more experience with applying for funds to complete projects later on. 

In 2012, “Light of Love” began planning to become something more than a high school club, and to register as an official nonprofit organization. Mr. Dai Xianwei, who is the person in charge of our organization, asked Mr. Ping Chao for advice regarding launching a nonprofit. At that time, “Light of Love” was experiencing hardships such as being unable to pay our employees. Mr. Chao agreed to cover the administration costs of “Light of Love” and to help Dai Xianwei start his nonprofit. From this point on, the organization began to develop along the right path. 

At 16:00, July 9 of 2014, a movie was playing at Wenfeng community. It attracted residents including persons cannot see or hear. Free movie activity would be carried out regularly in communities to rich people’s life. 

In the afternoon, dozens of the mute-deaf persons came to the activity room for the movie. The movie we were going to play is Lost on Journey. It’s about a story happened between 2 men on the journey back to their hometowns for spring festival. The humorous scenes and bright colors attracted the audience immediately. With the development of the story, the audience were bursting into laughter and applause. An audience even acted as a commentator. He imitation made everyone happy. Some audience said they felt lonely to watch TV at home. The organization provided a good opportunity for them to share happiness together.  

Playing movie in community riches the residents’ life. They can watch movies at their doors. We hope the activity can improve their life quality. 

Original article written by Yao Li, translated by Maggie Li, edited by Yanyan Zhang

Little Red Scarf is in Lanzhou, Gansu and Yunnan province and provides financial support and encouragement to children suffering from congenital heart disease. In addition, they provide families with post-operative care and help the children sustain a healthy lifestyle.

The first time I met Xiao Yan was on October 13 of 2014, she just accepted the surgery. She was admitted by the hospital on October 12. When her father heard she did not need to take injections, he took her to visit their relatives in Kunming. The doctor called him at night and told him the time of surgery, so we did not see Xiao Yan before the surgery.

In the afternoon, I met Xiao Yan’s father at the rest district of the ward. A man was walking towards me who was Xiao Yan’s father. Following him, I came to Xiao Yan’s ward. She was lying on the bed and looking at me with alert. When I ask her if her wound hurt, she shaked her head. After I took one photo, she lied down and fell asleep.

I did not ask more questions. According to her father, she was found congenital heart disease in a school physical examination. They had no idea about the disease before the emamination. Then he took the child to different hospitals and submitted medical aid application to several orgnizations, but received no reply.

I did not see mother’s certificate of regiatration, so I asked her father. He laughed and said her biological mother had left the family long ago and he had not registrated with her stepmother. Feeling at loss, I looked at Xiao Yan. She was lying still and the quilt covered her face.

When I verified each item on the form, I found the difference in family members. When I asked him again, she laughed and said his new wife gave birth to another 3 children who had not been registrated. The family has total 6 children. I could not help shaking head when I got to know the truth. Xiao Yan is the eldest of them. She is 13 and the youngest one is 2. The family of 10 depends on 1 mu of field and grows some corn and potatos. The grandmother was disabled in right hand and cannot take care of herself. The family has to take care of another 77-year-old woman without family. The burden of the big family falls on a man who does temps. The difficult of the family is beyond imagination.

I tried to suggest that he has enough children and more children would bring more burdens for the family. Her father agreed and said he had accepted birth control operation last year. 

Shalom Leprosy Compassion Ministry: People with leprosy are sent to isolated villages where they are abandoned and forgotten by society. The Shalom Leprosy Compassion Ministry has a special place in its heart for these people and organizes groups of volunteers to travel to villages plagued with leprosy in order to provide medical, living, and psychological assistance. The Shalom Leprosy Compassion Ministry is located in Kunming, Yunnan.

August is the rainy season in Yunnan Province, while the earthquake at Ludian on August 3rd attracted attention from international media.  Due to the lack of resources, services offered by Divine Grace is limited in Zhaoton city, especially so at its epic center of Ludian county.  Divine Grace asked its volunteers in Kunming to partner with their respective companies or community organizations to provide clothing, food and donations to those in the disaster areas.  In August, Divine Grace visited two rehabilitation villages in Yiliang county : Takeyama rehabilitation village and ArzeYing rehabilitation village.  We use a set of photos below to illustrate these two visits in August:

First, the visit of Takeyama rehabilitation village, Yiliang County

On August 2nd,  Divine Grace received a phone call from Jinyuan Xu of Takeyama rehabilitation village.  He was cheated $1,200 yuan and this loss caused him anxiety, anger and created some health problems as result.  In addition, corn in the field is ready for harvest and they need help.  Therefore, volunteers from Divine Grace decided to pay them a visit. 

Jinyuan Xu was deceived by a woman who claimed she was working for charity.  This woman gained Xu’s trust first and then replaced Xu’s money with fake money.  A normal person can easily identify this is fake money by touching or visual check.  However, Xu’s poor vision and with both hands handicapped is unable to tell the money is real or fake.  This $1,200 yuan was the fund saved by Xu over the years and he planned to ask Divine Grace for assistance when the time is appropriate for a trip to Dali and Lijiang.  Unfortunately now this fund was defrauded.  We condemn this woman for deceiving such a poor, disabled elderly.

Ping Liang felt sad about what happened and comforted Xu.  She explained to Xu how to identify the money is real or fake.  At the same time, Ping Liang donated $600 yuan to Xu to partially offset his loss.  Also promised Xu she will come back again with rice for Xu during the mid-autumn festival.