Iseek Cultural Center is a public welfare organization initiated by patients with PAH (pulmonary artery hypertension), which aims to provide support and service for people with invisible disabilities as PAH.
On February 23, 2013, Iseek Cultural Center participated in activity themed on Let Love Fly—2013 public-interest performance for the international rare disease, aiming to appeal for rare disease groups and hoping more people care about them. Tang, our patient, played guitar. Audiences gave her warm applause after she finished and asked her to perform one more. She said to me with excitement when she went to the backstage that she was so nervous that her legs were shaking, but she did not forget the words. This was her first time to perform for about 500 audiences. We were so happy for her progress and looking forward to her more wonder shows in the future. Original article written by Huan Huang, translated by Maggie Li, edited by Yanyan Zhang Compassion Nayong Public Welfare Association 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 March 27, a thousand donated dictionaries were distributed at two primary schools in Nayong. 1000 primary students received dictionaries. Hope the little dictionaries can help them to read more books and change their lives. Very grateful for the active participation and efforts of the volunteers. With following pictures. Original article written by Tao He, translated by Maggie Li, 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 promotes social work services for senior citizens and builds harmonious living environment for them.
March 5th, 2013 is the Public Welfare Activity Day of China. To help children to learn more about the activity to show a caring heart, and develop their positive social values, the Center invited students from a secondary school and a primary school to participate in the service activity for the senior citizens. The Jingjieniao Home 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
Thank you very much, staff from East China of Intel Cooperation, for 2000RMB to our children for purchasing school uniforms for our children. After careful selection, we bought 40 sets of uniforms for our children. They were very happy. Now we are sending the family photo of Jingjieniao to you with children in their uniforms. We hope to express our gratefulness in this way. Hope you will visit us when you have time! Thank you, Intel! Original article written by Zhaohao Feng, translated by Maggie Li, edited by Yanyan Zhang People with leprosy are sent to isolated villages where 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. Andrew is a young American guy who often does service work in leprosy villages, including giving haircuts and sawing firewood. He is energetic and always serves the leprosy villagers tirelessly. When TFish Fund approved to fund the project to construct solar-powered bathrooms in the villages of Yiliang, Andrew was in the U.S. We were happy to have the funding, but we were worried about how to actually carry out the project. Just before the Chinese New Year, we received a call from Andrew who introduced Philip, an American architecturer, to us. He had been engaged in housing constructions in the U.S. We were so grateful that God sent him to help us - we now had the help to build the bathrooms.
Although he was 60, Mr. Phillip went with us to leprosy villages in Yiliang and carried out the appropriate investigations, surveys, and measurements himself. He also came up with a material budget with Andrew. With the assistance of Andrew and the villagers, the bathroom constructions were completed. Original Article Written by Ping Liang, translated by Maggie Li, edited by Yanyan Zhang Shanquan Youth Public Welfare Development Center works with marginalized children and other vulnerable groups in the western areas and Jiangsu province of China.
For this extra-curricular activity, we made dumplings! They were filled with delicious leek pork. All of the children were great participants and they were much better dumpling-makers than any of us, the volunteers. In fact, some of us had to learn from the children, and before long they had become our teachers. The children taught us patiently and they demonstrated every step to us. We made a lot of dumplings, but in a comedic scene, the children were reluctant to put their dumplings with ours. They didn't think ours were pretty enough! After an entire morning of hard work, here are our achievements! Original article written by Huijun Wu, translated by Maggie li and edited by Yanyan Zhang Chongqing Jian’ai Art is a paper-cutting company, supplemented by arts production and sales, and a new social enterprise that supports people with hemophilia.
My name is Ren Jiankang, and I was diagnosed with hemophilia when I was 6 years old. Taking medicines and injections became the norm. The family could not afford fruits or snacks in order to pay medical bills for me. I wore the clothes from my elder brother. When I attended primary school, my father had to explain my illness to the teacher every year and asked for my absence from PE class. Nevertheless, I could not attend half of the classes in a semester. ShenZhen is a burgeoning industrial city in southern China, bordering HongKong. It is well known for its manufacturing for export. The majority of the manufacturing workers are from other parts of the country - mostly from the rural area. ShenZhen Friendship Community Services Center (ShenZhen FCSC) provides services to its local communities. From its inception, ShenZhen FCSC explored and tried out innovative approaches to reach out its targeted communities to keep them informed of the services it provides. It helps residents to understand the dynamics of the development of these communities, to enjoy the services provided by FCSC and to participate the building of a harmonious community. Based on the concept of "community friendship to take root", FCSC reaches out through the distribution of brochures, leaflets, FCSC social worker communications, computer mouse pad, social worker visits, research, special community outreach events, the Internet, through friends and family, the mouth of the volunteers to spread the words.
By these means, more and more residents understand FCSC, coming to participate in FCSC activities. As result, FCSC programs got carried out with a bang. It helps the formation of 4:30pm schools, summer camps, the community computer classes for the elderly, haircut workshop, group birthday celebration parties for the elderly and children, aerobics class, etc. In order to let more people understand and enjoy the services offered by FCSC, FCSC rented a space in the shopping area located in the main thoroughfare of the city in November. Through the efforts of volunteers, this opened up a new window to the public to promote our services. This new location is open to community residents from 9am to 12 noon and 2pm to 8pm. It displays materials donated by others, banners, light boxes, signs, roll up, "FCSC Communications" leaflets, on-site consulting, etc. All of this allows our community residents to understand our services. Therefore, they can apply for these services when in need. With the opening of this new location, ShenZhen FCSC hopes it will transform our concept of "community friendship to take root" into reality and promote further growth in our services. Original article writer by Xinjing Zhou, translated by Joe Hsu and edited by Yanyan Zhang Xingzhi Migrant Art School is a non-profit organization that offers art lessons for the children of migrant workers who otherwise would not have this opportunity. This update was written by Director Gu, the founder of and a teacher at the Art School.
The purpose of teaching English to let the students expand what they have learned and gain knowledge from different parts of the world. With the development of the Xingzhi Migrant Art School, more foreigners have been coming and visiting the School. They tend to ask Director Gu questions involving educational idea and method, the works of the students, the themes of the drawings, symbols, inspirations, etc. Most of the students can't answer such questions, and many interpreters can't understand well what the children want to express, leading to confusion among teachers and students. If our students could communicate with the foreign visitors directly and talk about their works, the understanding between the two sides can be vastly improved. The students were very happy that they started to learn English. Our English teacher taught the 26 alphabets and their pronunciations for the first period. Then the students learned some simple sentences. They enjoyed English classes very much and everyone worked hard. Original article written by Xiaochen Gu, translated by Maggie Li, Edited by Yanyan Zhang People with leprosy are sent to isolated villages where they are abandoned and isolated from 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. On Feb. 8, Dr. Liang, the founder of Shalom, and volunteers raised some funds and bought 30 pairs of rubber boots for a leprosy village in Yiliang. They also distributed shoe-pads donated by Japanese doctors who use them to better protect their patients' feet. |
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