CHINA | END POVERTY | VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

A time to be honest

A Captivating Kaili Village Development Update - Guizhou Province. Duoji, a small village near Panghai town, Kaili City, consists of more than 100 households. The average farmland is less than 0.08 acre (0.5 mu) per capita and water supplies are quite unstable...


CHINA | EDUCATE GIRLS | PROJECT EDEN

Project Eden Girls' have their first Dentist Visit....ever

(An update from Dale Gummin) Somebody might find this story interesting.  We get a real kick out of taking some of our girls to the dentist each year - usually for the very first time.  Sometimes we take a group of 4-5 at...


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

Seng Girls Sewing up a storm (well, a shirt actually)

Thanks to funding from the Fung (1906) Foundation, an on-site vocational based TAILORING program was set up at the Seng Girls Home six months ago.  The program, originally planned to help 5 of the older girls become professional tailors trained in...


CHINA | EDUCATE GIRLS | PROJECT EDEN

Project Eden gets a CHEVRON "Human Energy" boost

It was so fantastic for Project Eden to finally get the chance to host Kellie and Kent Rinehart from Chevron a few weeks ago. Although several of the staff and some of the students had just left for Chinese New Year, the majority remained wanting...


Topics: Chevron
CHINA | EDUCATE GIRLS | SMALL BUDGET PROJECTS

Layers and Literacy – 150 rural poor primary students now warm and inspired

Crystal Matterson writes:

How do you dress when it’s cold outside? Do you layer? Where do you go to get lost in your favorite book? Perhaps you frequent the local library. Now, so can our friends in Gengga Village, thanks to project manager Zhou Tso!


CHINA | END POVERTY | VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

From POVERTY to PROSPERITY - Wu Chaowen's story

Story by Francine Zhang (Project Manager, Captivating Village Development Project, Guizhou Province) Daxi villager Wu Chaowen and his wife have two lovely children, one son and one daughter.  This is considered a great blessing in a Chinese family. But, this great...


CHINA | END POVERTY | VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Yuan Dacheng's Story - Written by Francine Zhang (Project Manager)

Yuan Dacheng is one of the local farmers in Censer Mountain village. He is suffering from poor health, the whole family living depends on breeding 13 geese, 16 ducks and planting 10 mu (1.6 acres) of vegetable land. Yuan’s younger daughter stays at her aunties’ in...


CHINA | CAPTIVATING’S ONE MORE YEAR SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM | EDUCATE GIRLS | SENG GIRLS VOCATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL (SGVTS)

3 Seng Girls start another year of Medical school

Thanks to the ongoing support of their individual sponsors and the incredible Medical School scholarship program funded by KONG, a Hong Kong based Company, three Seng Girls continue to progress well in their Medical school studies.

Our latest update is that the two...


Topics: KONG