The Jingjieniao Home is in Xi’an, Shan’xi province. It provides services for the mentally handicapped from poverty-stricken families. The organization is dedicated to improving their spirit and living standards and advocating for every disabled individual to have adequate access to social resources.
On May 30, the Northwest Special Children Games was held in Xi'an Institute of Physical Education. Students from the Jingjieniao Home were invited to participate in the Games In the Games, with the help from volunteers, our children had very successful performance. Everyone were engaged in the games and acted standard. Throughout the games, all the children were excellent. Under the children's hard work, the team of Jingjieniao Home achieved the eighth place at the team event and won the Sportsmanship Award. At the closing ceremony of the games, the team of green leaves volunteer brought a surprise to the children of the Jingjieniao Home: Threw a surprising birthday party for our student-Xiaoyi Liu. All athletes and volunteers sang the birthday song out loud to send him best wishes. Our children danced happily as their thanks to the organizers of the games and all volunteers. Original article written by Zhaohao Feng, translated and edited by Yanyan Zhang Grounded on core values of respect, love, and service to the elderly, the Xin Yue Senior Citizen Service Center of Chongqing, China, promotes social work services for senior citizens and builds harmonious living environment for them.
Monthly Birthday Party is our promise with the elders, which was designed to allow older people to have meaningful birthdays every year. On May 16, we practiced with our promise. Senior Center held birthday party for 39 senior citizens with the support of TFish Each leading senior citizens of the party introduced themselves and spoke something gratitude. After introduction, it was time for volunteers to performing. Along with the familiar birthday song, volunteers slowly pushed birthday cake to seniors. The senior citizens made their wishes with eyes closed. When they opened their eyes, they surprisingly found that a group of children were in front of them. The children gave seniors their paintings as gifts, which made seniors thrilled. Grandpa Yu could not spend his birthday with his own family, but today, it was a unforgettable day to him, he said: "This is my happiest day of the year. It is the best birthday I've had. " After the party, social workers and volunteers went to greeting the elders who were not convenient to move. Original article written by Ling Feng, translated and edited by Yanyan Zhang Albinism Children’s Home is a public service platform designed to help and support albinos and their families living in China. The organization's main goal is to improve living standards and promote equal participation in society for albinos. Abinism Children's Home is in Xi’an, Shanxi province. May 9 to 10, the moon children's home Henan station was formally established. Eventually, Henan moon children's home had its own official name, and found their own organization. At 9 am, children with Albinism from all over the Henan province came to attend the celebration party. It made all children with Albinism not feel alone and met with new friends . Lunch time was the sharing session. The most impressive moment was Lu Guan's sharing. Growing up as a children with Albinism, he first told us about Albinism relevant knowledge, and taught us methods of prevent and treatment. Then he told us in detail of resources and rights available to us. Thirdly, he encouraged us to go into society. During these sharing, we were particularly impressed by the topic of Albinism Patient's eye and vision care. May 10, it was session about Albinism Patient Social Integration. Due to the rain, the original trip to Zhengzhou Botanical Garden was changed, and we visited Zhengzhou Science and Technology Museum instead. We took bus together. At the Museum, we studied science, played interactive games and so on. This visit gave us fully understood and made our friendship deeper. During these two days, we got a chance to communicate with each other, shared mutual understanding and life experience. Children with Albinism have no difference and we have determination to own a better life. Original Article Written by Lu Guan, translated and edited by Yanyan Zhang Early CHD Detection is Crucial
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. Zheng Mei lives in Dayao county, Yunnan province. The family has 4, her parents are peasants and she has an older brother who is in Grade 8. They have 4 mu of mountain fields. The main income comes from tobacco which is about 10000RMB per year. Living costs were sustained by 10000RMB of loan which would be paid from tobacco in the end of the year. They raised a few chickens which were used to supply nutrition to the family. During 2012-2013, her father was diagnosed thrombocytopenia which spent over 50000RMB. He had to do regular examinations in hospital. Her brother boarded at school and needs. The family owed about 40000RMB debts when the new house was rebuilt. Sometimes, Zheng Mei would told her parents she was dizzy, but they did not take it seriously. In the end of December of 2014, her father saw her nose was bleeding when she was eating sugar canes. Her parents took her to check in county hospital. According to the diagnose results, the doctor suggested them to do further check in Kunming. 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 parents, and abandoned children. The normal expense of the Home is sustained by plantation, breeding, and small business. May 17, two volunteers from Qingdao University School of Foreign Languages would ended their one-month volunteering in Long Wan. We gave banners and certificates to them and eight other volunteers to show our gratitude. May 16 we held a farewell party for these two sisters. The children at school picked up small flowers as a gift for them on the way. Our children just as simple and beautiful as these small flowers,. On the eve of leaving, we were reluctant to go to bed and wanted to stay longer with two sisters. It had been only one month, but we had had a lot of beautiful memories with each other. Thank Qingdao Foreign Languages University and Ying Ai Foundation for supporting Long Wan all the time. Once again I would like to thank everyone involved in teaching and volunteering ! Original Article Written by Aihua Ban, translated and edited by Yanyan Zhang With the support of TFish, the project aims to support with micro loans to housewives from a poverty-stricken village in Huining county, Gansu province. It will promote income and provide development opportunities to women in the villages
After a long time preparation, the funds come into place. Funds would be distributed. To know more about the willingness of the women, we completed interviews for 26 households. After interviews, we got to know the ideas of the women in development. Based on it, we distributed the loans. 24 households applied the loans, but our funds can only support 20 households. We finally chose to give loans by means of lottery. 20 households were selected and the loans for each is 2000RMB, the cycle is 10 months. There are 26 households in Lucha village. Most of them are left-behind senior citizens and children. Manual workers are a gap. Most of them are with low education and less idea in development. The villagers raise livestock and do plantation to make ends meet. For the use of loans, they chose to raise cow or goats. To ensure the proper use of the funds, we calculated the numbers of livestock they had, so that we know if the loans have been used in raising livestock. After signing the contract, we distributed the loans. The villagers were surprised and said it was more efficient than the bank. We wanted them to receive the money as soon as possible and motivated the development for the women. The women with loans said they would buy more goats. The next day, we visited a small bazaar near the village. I saw many familiar faces. They were buying goats and some of them were bargaining the price. They have acted very quickly. Original article written by Cunjun Ma, translated by Maggie Li, and edited by Yanyan Zhang With the support of TFish, the project aims to support with micro loans to housewives from a poverty-stricken village in Huining county, Gansu province. It will promote income and provide development opportunities to women in the villages Finally the funds were available on April 27---65420.02 RMB exchanged from 10537 dollars.The funds would be provided to women from 20 households in Lucha village as micro loans for developing traditional livestock. According to the current situation, 2000RMB were loaned to each household to develop sheep raising. With the loan, each household can buy 3 female sheep. Each sheep would give birth to 2 lambs twice in 12 months if they feed the sheep properly. Each lamb can be sold for about 500RMB 3 months after being born. It will be a great number.
Let’s achieve this step by step. We have been thinking to develop some income generation project with more technology. When facing the actual situations, we found women prefer to do sheep raising during needs assessment. Not long after, some more sheep will appear on the green mountains while women will busy for their field work. In the evening, they will be collecting the sheep from grass land and take them back. Then they will busy to prepare dinner for the family. When it becomes dark, they will be chatting with their children. What a nice scene! Original article written by Cunjun Ma, translated by Maggie Li, and edited by Yanyan Zhang With support from TFish, this project aims to support housewives from a poverty-stricken village in Huining county, Gansu province by providing them with microloans. This will promote income and provide development opportunities to women in the villages. 4) Chen Guoyuan is 60 this year. He has 2 sons. One died from illness 5 years ago and left behind 3 children. The children now live with Chen and his wife. His younger son went to the city to work. Their family has planted about 30 mu (5 acres) of fields. They work very hard, and the income comes from their crops. We initiated helping him and sold about 300 kilograms of millet for him.
5) Cui Xiaoxia is one of 5 Han families in Lucha village. With her micro loan, she bought a cow for 5,800 RMB ($870 USD). The cow is used to plow fields and for breeding. Her son was accepted into a technology university in Hubei province this year. She said the cow could alleviate their economic pressure as well as their farming workload. Original article written by Cunjun Ma, translated by Maggie Li, and edited by Yanyan Zhang and Carolyn D. |
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