Try, Try Again!

A couple of weeks ago I told you about Mona Lau, who is on staff at our Xining Children's Home in Qinghai. Mona is providing expert and up-to-date training for the locally employed staff team. 

When one of my Hong Kong staff members asked Mona about the impact of Christian Action's work on the children in Qinghai, and the difficulties in that remote province, she replied with the following story.

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Changing the Community

Last week Pastor Luke Wong, from South West Chinese Christian Church in Sydney, took nine members of his congregation to Qinghai for the eighth consecutive year. They received quite a surprise!

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The High Price of Art

One of the first things most of us encourage our little children to do is to draw something... a ball, stick figures, and so on. It's a sad fact of life that for many desperately poor families, a set of crayons is a luxury, and a child must be encouraged from an early age to do things that will earn money. Art is seen as a waste of time.

The Child Development Fund project was set up for such families in Hong Kong; families who do not have the financial means to participate in any extra curricular activities. They are part of the 1.1 million people in HK living below the poverty line. Three hundred thousand of these people are children.

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No Longer A Volunteer

It's not surprising that few skilled people are willing to live and work in remote, undeveloped areas of north western China, at high altitudes, where the weather is often extreme and the amenities we take for granted do not exist.  

For a single person in the prime of life there are a lot of challenges, including having a group of friends to have fun with when you’re not at work. Because of all these difficulties in Qinghai, I am very grateful for our newest staff member, Mona Lau.

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The Life Inside

One of our priorities is to help others understand that within the body of a disabled person there is someone who longs to run, to dance, to throw a ball, and to communicate with a voice and maybe a hug. So we were encouraged when three teachers and eighteen students (aged 15-17) from St Paul's College in Hong Kong went to visit our children in Qinghai. The program: Other Learning Experiences is excellent, particularly for this age group.  Entrenched attitudes can be totally transformed.  That's what happened in Qinghai.

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