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Little Red Scarf is in Lanzhou, Gansu, and Yunnan provinces. We provide financial support and encouragement to children suffering from congenital heart disease. In addition, we provide families with post-operative care and help the children sustain a healthy lifestyle  Xiao Jun and his family thanked LRS and donors Update October 2016: Chinese Medicine TreatmentOur Little Red Scarf staff Guanying recently talked with Xiao Jun’s father. Since the chemotherapy was not effective, and the hospital can't do anything to help, Xiao Jun has been at home and taking Chinese medicine 3 times a day. His energy level is better now than when he was in the hospital, and he has a pretty good appetite. Xiao Jun’s father isn’t able to go out to work because every few days he has to take Xiao Jun to the Chinese medicine doctor. The family’s debt is already more than 20,000 RMB ($3,000 USD). The Chinese medicine is also estimated to cost about 50,000 RMB ($7,400 USD). Their home is relatively far from the school, and Xiao Jun can’t attend school because he can’t walk that far. Also, he wouldn’t be able to take his Chinese medicine if he went to school. Over the summer we gave Xiao Jun’s family 13,000 RMB (about $2,000 USD). Thanks to our donor PSD, we can give them another $500 USD to help with Xiao Jun’s treatment. Update September 2016: No Chance for SurgerySadly, the results from Xiao Jun’s hospital exams at the end of July and beginning of August were not favorable. The pre-surgery exams showed that the lesions in Xiao Jun’s body have already spread to his lungs. This means that there is no chance for him to have surgery. Although Xiao Jun underwent chemotherapy treatment, the results were not ideal. The family spent about 20,000 RMB ($3,000 USD) on the pre-surgery examinations.
The doctors encouraged the family to let Xiao Jun go home. Xiao Jun’s father informed us about the situation and that he would be taking Xiao Jun home. They can treat him with Chinese medicine to make him more comfortable and improve his quality of life for the time being. However, there is nothing else they can do except let him spend each day as happily as he can.  Dr. Feng Long He trains doctor how to examine newborn heart using the stethoscope. Newborn Congenital Heart Screening Training and Evaluation ProgramThe Yunnan Newborn Training Program has the goal of training all rural Yunnan county obstetricians and obstetric nurses to perform proper newborn cardiac examinations. The program, started in 2014, is the largest of its kind in China and one of the largest of its kind in the world.
TFish is hosting a 5K Walkathon at Baylands Park in Sunnyvale on Saturday, Oct 22, 2016, 9am. Walk to alleviate poverty in East Asia.  Remember to register for the TFish 5K Walkathon!It's coming up on Saturday, October 22nd at Baylands Park in Sunnyvale. Your participation will raise awareness and funds for poverty alleviation in East Asia. New Partners and ProjectsWe're also excited to announce these new projects:
 March 2012, Xiao Zhen after surgery Not Just a Throat ProblemIn the beginning of 2012, Xiao Zhen’s cousin caught a cold, so her grandma brought both kids to the clinic to get her some cold medicine, and also to get Xiao Zhen some medicine for her throat. Because it was flu season, the doctor used a stethoscope to check both children. The doctor said the cousin had a common cold and only needed some medicine, but Xiao Zhen’s situation was a bit more complicated. The issue wasn’t with her throat, but that she had a heart murmur. He recommended that they go to the county hospital.  Xiao Zhen with Xiao Jing before a check up Little Red Scarf is in Lanzhou, Gansu, and Yunnan provinces. We provide financial support and encouragement to children suffering from congenital heart disease. In addition, we provide families with post-operative care and help the children sustain a healthy lifestyle More than one month has passed since the 2016 Summer Camp ended, but the children’s smiles and goofy faces are still vivid in my mind. Having Cindy's family join us at the camp from Canada opened the eyes of the rural children. It was the first time that the kids saw a map of Canada, understood the Canadian lifestyle, tasted Canadian candy, and even got gifts from Canada… During those few days of camp, Aunt Cindy learned that some kids did not have a change of clothes; some didn't even have extra underwear and socks. Because of time constraints, Aunt Cindy could not personally purchase clothing for the children, but she entrusted the staff to buy the right clothes for the kids. Yi Hong and Yi Xia lost their mother when they were young children and were taken care of by their grandmother. Because the family was poor and the grandmother was thrifty, the kids had few clothes. Because the kids were attending summer camp, the father bought clothes for the two kids especially for the occasion. Aunt Cindy found out that Yi Xia is a girl who would like to be pretty, but she did not have an extra change of clothes. So she asked us to buy two more sets of clothing for Yi Xia.
Giving Yi Xia a long-sleeved t-shirt and leggings, and Yi Hong a set of sweaters and pair of trousers.
The mission statement of VCRM is to restore and renew hope to Vietnamese individuals and families suffering from drug addictions and other destructive lifestyles through the proclamation of the Gospel and the transforming power of Jesus Christ.  Come over to Macedonia to help us!The story is recorded in Acts 16:1-5, the Apostle Paul and Silas planned to go to the regions of Phrygia, Galatia, Bithynia to spread the good news of salvation in the Lord Jesus, but when they came up to Mysia and were just about to enter Bithynia, “… the Holy Spirit did not allow them. So, they went down to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”
As each of us follows Christ in our lives, perhaps once we heard the voice of the Lord telling us to do something for His name, for His church, for God’s Kingdom. For the brethren in Restoration Ministry, their “Macedonian” call is to go to the young people in bondage to drugs, cocaine, gangs… that no one else can help deliver from the grips of prison and sin except by the power of the saving gospel of the Lord Jesus alone. They have heard the call of the Holy Spirit and responded to the call, to bring the good news to those desperately pleading “Come to the prison camps to help us.”  Bringing Sanitation Systems to 4 SchoolsWetlands Work is focusing on WASH (Water, Sanitation, Hygiene) in schools as part of a program to bring sanitation to floating communities of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake. With support from the Transparent Fish Fund, we have so far constructed two school systems, Phat Sanday Secondary school and at Prek Khsach Primary school. Two additional schools, Thvarng Primary school and Kampong Prahok Primary school have been identified and systems are being installed in these school over the next five weeks. Sanitation AwarenessWe have also carried out a pilot sanitation awareness raising campaign at Yukunthor Primary school, and based on the lessons learned from this campaign, we are rolling out the remainder of the planned awareness raising activities. Impact from Transparent Fish FundTFish funds are instrumental in supporting WW’s work with the schools, i.e. purchasing materials and installing the systems, developing and producing materials for sanitation and hygiene education in floating schools, and promoting sanitation technologies within the communities at large. Update provided by Wetlands Work! on September 30, 2016
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