With Only Seven Chickens
“Being able to watch the offspring of my chicken growing and wandering about the house day by day with my family once again is one of the happiest moments of my life”, said Mr. Heng. …
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Drinking Water Project Impact
“The effect of the DWP [drinking water project] on self-reported health outcomes relevant to water-related suffering were as hypothesized. Indeed, the villagers were 64% (p = 0.02) and 70% (p=0.01) less likely to suffer from diarrhea and stomach pain post intervention.” …
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Awareness to Change
The ninth annual EMBER Summer Camp was held at Confucius Middle School on July 10-13, 2015. More than 30 CWEF scholarship recipients from Confucius and Xiangshan Middle Schools participated in the camp. Ten EMBER volunteers from Hong Kong and one volunteer from Macau facilitated the camp.
This year, the theme was how to raise awareness of social issues, and the EMBER team used a curriculum developed by two HKIS students (Ms. Caroline Scown and Ms. Brittaney Fried).
At the camp, the participants ranked a number of social issues by personal importance. The participants were separated in groups by their most important social issue. In the small groups, the participants researched the social issue and developed an action plan to help resolve the issue. Participants had a chance to practice their public speaking skills, as they presented their findings both individually and with their small groups to the rest of the summer camp participants.
The social issues the participants tackled included personal safety, protecting the environment and ways to increase organic agriculture practices. Throughout the camp, the participants developed the skills and confidence to find ways to increase awareness of important issues and move towards a resolution.
The camp also included the annual picnic and elderly center visit and performance.
Thank you EMBER for your continued support of the summer camp and scholarship program, and Ms. Scown and Ms. Fried for use of the social issue awareness curriculum.
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Zhang Xiumei, HEAL advocate
photo by Adrienne Yu
My name is Zhang Xiumei. I am a 24 year-old mother of a two year-old son, and we live with my husband in rural Yunnan in China. My little boy has big eyes and a huge smile. …
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Worth the wait
Written by Dolphin Liu, China Programs Director
In July, 2010, I joined the CWEF team and began my journey into a career in charity. During these five years I observed local needs, as well as bridge building & sustainable impact through CWEF programs. …
Puppets!
“I think that students will respond well if we start introducing puppets into the health trainings we facilitate at the village schools,” said our Cambodia Education Program Director, Danay Mao. …
Providing service through surveys
In January, students from Concordia Shanghai’s Global Health course traveled to Yunnan for their course field experience. The Global Health course curriculum emphasizes the importance of statistical understanding to evaluate intervention programs worldwide. …
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Ripples of Impact
How do you decide which organization or which initiative deserves your donated funds? How does an organization decide whether the resources it has committed to an initiative are allocated in alignment with the organization’s vision and hoped-for impact? …
Remembering Julia Lee
Julia Lee was a person of abundant cheer and good-natured laughter. She enriched the lives of those she knew with her easy smile and genuine warmth of personality. Julia loved people and people loved to be around Julia. …
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Your support changes lives!
Your support to help keep young students in school in China is an immeasurable gift, and an inspiration for these students who have already faced so many challenges in life from illness, loss of parents, physical disabilities, economic disadvantages, and more. Please consider sponsoring another student this year!
Below are excerpts from a letter that one student, Li, wrote to her sponsor.
I want to write you to express my thanks for giving me the opportunity to be so fortunate. Through all the teachers and students I have faced over this last year, your kindness has been an anchor to me, keeping me strong, and indeed, a major form of stability in my life. It makes me happy to know there is such love within and outside the family circle. I am extremely aware now that friends look after our needs so well and that perhaps there is a Being who knows that a supportive friend is needed to help through their troubled times.
Thank you my dear friend for all your prayers and for standing by me through everything. You can never know how grateful I am to you for bringing me a little sense and sanity into what was a very difficult period of my life. For your help, I am very happy, because it gave me a little light, and that light truly shines through you, and you have been such a great blessing to my life. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you for everything!
-Li
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