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Gansu Care: Winter Coats Distribution Project Overview

1/18/2017

 
Lanzhou Jingcheng Public Service Center is located in Gansu Province and mainly serves the disadvantaged groups in society, helping them renew their confidence in life and build up their self-reliance. Services include: 1) Care for the rural children left behind 2) Care for children after surgery 3) Concern for the old public service areas 4) Carrying out a variety of public training, consulting, and advocacy activities.
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209 Students at 5 Elementary Schools Receive Winter Coats

In September 2016, we cooperated with a nonprofit organization called Yue Shi Tuan and asked them to help us select five elementary schools in the poor county of Qin An. (Yue Shi Tuan is a nonprofit organization in the county of Qin An. They work together with the local people and businesses to help poor children get into school, to take care of seniors, to provide severe illness aids, etc.)

​Recommended by our partner Yue Shi Tuan, we finally selected the following 5 schools to give away winter clothes: Yang Po Wan Elementary School and Gao Wan Elementary School in Wang Pu Township, Wu Zhuang Elementary School and He Li Elementary School in Ye Bao Township, and Song Gou Elementary School in Guo Jia Town, totaling 209 people.
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Photos of the Samples that Guan Ying found online
Guan Ying was responsible for earlier communications with Yue Shi Tuan, finding manufacturers to make the winter clothes, and providing samples. 

On October 12-13, Guan Ying, Ai Ju, Wang Li, and the volunteers of Yue Shi Tuan visited the five schools in Qin An County and brought over samples of the selected winter clothes. This was the first school visit for the "Warm Winter" project, a project to take care of poor students in elementary school. The main purpose of this visit was to confirm how many students are in the school, and the amount and sizes of the clothes.
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​LRS Care: Returning Visit—Bao Lan

1/16/2017

 
Little Red Scarf is in Lanzhou, Gansu 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.
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Special thanks to Grandma Chu's Love Fund for donating $320 USD to Bao Lan, hoping she would increase her nutrition after the operation.

Bao Lan lives in a family with three members. Her father was born deaf and mentally disabled. Her mother is thin and small with bad health. The family didn't know she had congenital heart disease until she gave birth to Bao Lan in the hospital. 

The whole family just has 0.2 acres of fields. They grow fruits and vegetables for their own consumption. Her mother drives a donkey cart at scenic tourist sites to earn some money. Her father rows boats in the Yangzi river during public holidays. The income of the whole year is about 15,000 RMB.

The family receives a minimum living allowance from the government. Bao Lan also receives a government subsidy for her serious disease, but she has no deposit during the beginning stage. So LRS accepted her family into the post-surgery care program for poverty relief.

Bao Lan's Recent Developments 
After her surgery, Bao Lan rested for a year before going back to school. She is in grade 5 now. She attends PE and has grown much taller. Her scars have healed well. Her mother said they were not able to tutor her.

Family Situation 
The new house has not been decorated, for it will cost a lot of money. The village resort has not been started. They live in 2 of the rooms. Her father is mentally disabled, so the family’s burden falls on her mother alone. All of their income was used to return loans.

Her mother was thankful for loving people’s care. With help, their lives will become better. 

Original article written by Li Wang, translated by Maggie Li and edited by Yanyan Zhang and Carolyn D.

Nayong: Young Health Workshop

1/16/2017

 
Compassion Nayong Public Welfare is based on Nayong, a poverty-stricken area in Guizhou Province. Taking the network as the platform, it carries out various public Welfare activities to aid education.
 
On 12/13/2016, a well-planned workshop on “Young Health Seminar” started in ShuGuan middle school, Baixing middle school, and Haizhu elementary school, which was sponsored by the Compassion Nyong Public Welfare and County Birth Control Commission Organization. There are more attendees from Shuguan Middle school than those attendanees from other schools. Two teachers provided 2 separate seminars in two different locations in 4 classes with the total 700 students who attended the seminar. After the workshop, handouts on youth health were distributed as donation from Zhuhai Dishui Water Foundation.  Those handouts would help inform the students on the details relating to their health after school.  Those volunteers and school teachers introduced how to use feminine products on site as preparation before class.  Volunteers in groups distributed the feminine products to students and felt very warm hearted when they saw students smile shyly. It is very important to teach those youth in their teen age to learn how to handle puberty properly. The right knowledge should help them to set correct outlook towards the world and life. This activity truly benefits them all.
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Volunteers distributed the feminine products to students
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It is very important to teach those youth in their teen age to learn how to handle puberty properly.
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The health advisor used her heart to take care those students to ensure they know how to manage their own health.
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During class, the students listen very carefully to their teachers and learn how to protect themselves.

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Gansu Care: Field Visit to Juanjuan's House

1/13/2017

 
Lanzhou Jingcheng Public Service Center is located in Gansu Province and mainly serves the disadvantaged groups in society, helping them renew their confidence in life and build up their self-reliance. Services include: 1) Care for the rural children left behind 2) Care for children after surgery 3) Concern for the old public service areas 4) Carrying out a variety of public training, consulting, and advocacy activities.

Juanjuan's Family Background

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​Our second home visit was to Juanjuan’s home. Juanjuan's family has 5 people in it, but right now only 4 of them are living in the house. They have 10 mu (about 1.5 acres) of land on which to plant crops.

There are three mu of alfalfa to feed the sheep, three mu of corn, three mu of potatoes, and one mu of millet. Wheat is not drought-resistant and generally has a low yield, so many families, including Juanjuan’s, choose not to plant it now.

Juanjuan’s mother is 40 years old. She has never attended school or worked anywhere other than her home town.  She doesn’t understand much Mandarin and regularly speaks the Dongxiang language.
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Gansu Care: Field Visit to Maria's Uncle House

1/13/2017

 
Lanzhou Jingcheng Public Service Center is located in Gansu Province and mainly serves the disadvantaged groups in society, helping them renew their confidence in life and build up their self-reliance. Services include: 1) Care for the rural children left behind 2) Care for children after surgery 3) Concern for the old public service areas 4) Carrying out a variety of public training, consulting, and advocacy activities.

Spontaneous Trip to Visit the Uncle's House

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We weren't originally planning to visit Maria's uncle's house. But since we visited Maria's home, Juanjuan's home, the school, and the villagers' water sources, Maria's uncle was very enthusiastic about us visiting his home. He was very warm and kept inviting us to his house again and again. Since his passion was very rare, I decided to visit his house as well. 

Can I Get One Too?

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​Maria's uncle may have seen the water reservoirs we were planning to give to the schools. He had his own ideas and asked me in a friendly way, "Are you still building reservoirs? Can I apply for one?"

I replied that this was our Transparent Fish Fund project, and that our organizations worked worked together to implement the project for the school. So this project was not able to give his family a reservoir.

The uncle, who is very proficient in the world, said, "It’s up to you to determine your permission within the project scope."

I said, "We currently do not have such a project, and I do not have this permission." Although I said it very directly, the uncle was still very persistent.

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Gansu Care: Field Visit to Maria's Family

1/12/2017

 
Lanzhou Jingcheng Public Service Center is located in Gansu Province and mainly serves the disadvantaged groups in society, helping them renew their confidence in life and build up their self-reliance. Services include: 1) Care for the rural children left behind 2) Care for children after surgery 3) Concern for the old public service areas 4) Carrying out a variety of public training, consulting, and advocacy activities.
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Getting to Know the Locals' Living Conditions

On October 11, 2016, Gansu Care officially launched the beginning of the water reservoir project at Zhengjia Elementary School. (Zhengjia is located in Dongxiang County.) While we were there, we took the opportunity to visit four families in the area. From them, we learned a lot about their living conditions, including their drinking water, family health status, students' schooling, and crop harvest. Through the understanding of these situations, we could have a general understanding of the present situation and future difficulties. This was all done for the preparation of our future new projects.

Maria's Family

Maria's family is the first family we visited. Maria's father said that he and his wife had never taken a picture together in their lifetime. So, during this exploratory trip, I took the opportunity to take family photos for them, hoping that these photos could help them retain some memories. 

Currently, four people live in the household: the parents, brother, and Maria. Her two older sisters had already gotten married about ten years ago, so they did not live in the house with them. 

The father is 63 years old and the mother is 57 years old. Both of their bodies are very healthy without any major pains or illnesses. In the village, if they can still walk up and down the mountain, they are in good shape.

However, the decay of the father’s teeth is very serious. Just from speaking with him, one can tell that he is missing his front row of teeth. Two years ago, the mother broke her right arm and has been disabled since then. Although there are no present problems with it, she does not have any strength in that arm. She is unable to do simple tasks. When they are cooking and there is a task that requires some strength, the father will be the one to do it. Since the mother can only do simple tasks, she is unable to help with any farm work. 
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Nayong: Hardships that blossom into sunshine

1/11/2017

 
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Clothes had a broken zipper so she had fashioned a shoelace into a button and sewed it onto her jacket.
Compassion Nayong Public Welfare is based in Nayong, a poverty-stricken area in Guizhou Province. Taking the network as the platform, it carries out various public welfare activities to aid education.

In mainstream media, a large portion of dialogue surrounding the struggles of youth involves their mental  wellbeing.  Although there is no authoritative data to say so as of yet, the majority of average adolescents are introverted, and likely an even larger percentage of teens from troubled households are quiet and withdrawn. In articles of this subject matter, youth from troubled households are often depicted as introverted and being in a poorer frame of mind. In reality, interaction with children from troubled households paints a much different picture, one that reveals the youth as just as kind, sensible, and cheerful as their normal counterparts.
In some cases, their personalities shine even brighter than their peers from normal households. Today we are writing about Xue Er, a strong, optimistic child and who loves to laugh and is just a ray of sunshine. Xue Er is 13 years old and currently in sixth grade. Her father passed away before Xue Er’s birth, and her mother remarried not long after giving birth, only to leave and never come back. Xue er now lives with her grandparents; pictured is their family home. Because the road in front of the house was too muddy, volunteers were forced to park far from the house and walk there.
 
In early March, when spring had just begun and our volunteers visited Xue Er for the first time, there was no one at home. The neighbors generously went to summon them from the fields, and the grandma was the first to return. She said that Xue Er was carrying a sack of a farm manure and would be back as soon as she finished carrying it to the other side of the field. While we were waiting for her, we started talking about Xue Er to her grandma, who was pleased to tell us that her grandchild is smart, has good grades, is very sensible, and practices filial piety. Because her grandparents are old and their legs have become frail, most of the heavy household labor is performed by Xue Er. Today, for example, Xue Er was doing the heavy lifting while her grandparents perform the easier task of sowing corn seeds.
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Exterior of Xue Er's house
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Xue Er's bed

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Gansu Care: Summary of Water Reservoir Project at Zhengjia Elementary

1/11/2017

 
Lanzhou Jingcheng Public Service Center is located in Gansu Province and mainly serves the disadvantaged groups in society, helping them renew their confidence in life and build up their self-reliance. Services include: 1) Care for the rural children left behind 2) Care for children after surgery 3) Concern for the old public service areas 4) Carrying out a variety of public training, consulting, and advocacy activities.
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May 11, 2016: Field Visit to Evaluate the Water Situation

Dongxiang County is considered a poor region at the national level. The water supply is very limited all season long here, so the locals rely on wells to store water.
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​On May 11, 2016, representatives from the Hong Kong Growth Hope foundation and the Gansu community service center visited the three elementary schools at Dashuxiang. They observed that the residents and schools needed to rely on water transported from the county center.  

The Zhengjia Elementary School had an old well that leaked constantly and only held about 2-3 cubic meters of water, which was not sufficient to cover a 2 week supply, especially during summer time.  We wanted to build a well that could hold 20 cubic meters to cover 3-4 month’s water supply for the school, which would significantly improve the situation.
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The Zhengjia Elementary School we visited is an elementary school with Grades 1-6. It serves a total of 137 families from 7 communities. Currently there are 62 students (25 in 1st grade, 7 in 2nd grade, 6 in 3rd grade, 15 in 4th grade, 6 in 5th grade, and 5 in 6th grade). There are 33 girls and 4 teachers (one female teacher).  Due to the poor commuting conditions, students from 4 communities cannot come to school.  With the construction of a new highway nearby, the enrollment will increase in 2 years.

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ZOE: Year-End Update 2016

1/9/2017

 
ZOE International rescues and cares for orphans and trafficked children, primarily in Thailand. Our support is providing preventative healthcare (nutrition, medical, and dental care) for the 75 long-term children in their care.
In 2016, TFish support enabled ZOE children to receive essential preventative healthcare, including flu vaccines, vitamins, and de-worming medicine.

Vitamins: ​We provided one complete multi-vitamin per child per day for one year.

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​The ZOE kitchen prepares over 450 meals per day for their children, staff, and volunteers. Over the years they have made great strides in improving the nutritional level for our children. Improvements include having fresh fruit at every dinner meal and a box of milk for each child with the morning meal. Although the amount of food is plentiful, they believe that there are certain minerals and vitamins missing from the children’s diet. For example, vitamin C and iron are lacking due to lower citrus and protein consumption. Having a full complement of necessary vitamins and minerals is essential during the critical developmental years of children and teens.

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ICC Tech for Life: Project Update January 2017 

1/9/2017

 
In partnership with International China Concern, we are helping educate children with disabilities in China. Our funding for 9 iPads and 6PCs will empower youth in 3 cities to maximize their communication and learning potential and increase their levels of independence.
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iPad covers
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Adaptive mice

January 9, 2017: Equipment on Order and Being Delivered

We are excited that this week:
  • All ​nine iPads are being delivered to our project manager.
  • iPad shock proof covers are traveling from the US to China on Thursday.
  • The finalization of the purchase of the PC's are happening in China.
  • Adaptive mice are being ordered in a few different countries. One will be delivered this week, some will be delivered later on.

Eagerly Waiting for New Computers

Our staff in China are so excited to get their new computers and iPads for the kids.  I look forward to sharing photos and updates with you as soon as they are delivered.

Thank you for everything. I was just in China for a week before the holidays. I had the privilege of sitting with one of our teenage girls with Cerebral Palsy who is using her chin to operate a computer. She was in the middle of writing a story about her dreams for the future. It was so powerful to see her ability to communicate with the use of technology available to her.  It made me realize that many more children will now have that opportunity because of the TFish funding.
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