CHINA | EDUCATE GIRLS | PROJECT EDEN

Eden's New Education Program

After the festivities of Chinese New Year settled down, we began a new routine at Eden.  This semester, the girls are studying at home.  Each morning, they walk up to our "schoolhouse" well before 8:00 to practice reading aloud or doing homework. ...


CHINA | END POVERTY | VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Lusheng Group Development - Kaili Village Development

Lusheng is a reed pipe wind instrument which is popular with the Miao minority, Dong ethnic groups in southwestern China.  Play and dance using this instrument is one of the Miao nationality traditional culture activities and has been done for more than two thousand years.  ...


CHINA | EDUCATE GIRLS | PROJECT EDEN

My Trip to Eden - Written by Emily Winfield

(Emily is 10 years old and lives on the Gold Coast, Australia). Two days ago which was on a Sunday, Aunty Julie, Uncle Andrew and Tyler took my mum, brother Matt and I to Project Eden in Dongguan, China.  We traveled by...


CHINA | EDUCATE GIRLS | SENG GIRLS VOCATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL (SGVTS)

Girls going to dentist

March 20 was World Oral Health Day and to celebrate the importance of good oral hygiene, 7 of our Seng Girls were hosted by Dr Zac Morse and his Dental team at Shenzhen's Dental Bauhinia www.dentalbauhinia.com....


CHINA | END POVERTY | VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Village Development - Life changing through learning

Captivating's village development project (in partnership with Heifer International China) has had a busy past few months. New villagers from stage 2 of the Daxi Village implementation plan (village # 1) received their gift animals from Captivating and along with it have been working hard to bend their...


CHINA | EDUCATE GIRLS | SENG GIRLS VOCATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL (SGVTS)

Seng Girls Home cool but cozy

Fortunately this year’s winter has been a little less severe than normal. Not so much snow has fallen and there have been fewer major disturbances or upheavals in the town. Consequently, yak dung prices dropped and so we stocked up on extra fuel (used...


CHINA | EDUCATE GIRLS | PROJECT EDEN

Eden Welcomes 2013

The beginning of the year has already seen lots of work and play at Eden. We started the year off by replacing the sink in the girls' kitchen and installing a water heater so they can wash dishes in hot water! They were very excited...


CHINA | EDUCATE GIRLS | SENG GIRLS VOCATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL (SGVTS)

Learning to Dance (at the top of the world)

(Jordan Dotson shares his thoughts on his first visit to the Seng Girls Home) Qinghai is a strange place, an unsettling place. If anything it's an ecstatic place, yet not in the diluted, everyday form of the word that makes you think ...