Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Blessing Hands Intern Needed From Morehead State University

Blessing Hands Intern Needed


Apply for a Summer Internship in China

Blessing Hands is a Morehead public charity that seeks to help rural children in Guangxi, China stay in school. http://www.blessing-hands.org is our web page and our blog is http://blessinghands.blogspot.com.

We are seeking a Morehead State University student who will be a junior or senior in the fall of 2010 and is interested in visiting China as a Blessing Hands intern next summer. We will give $500 toward your travel with a Morehead group. We are seeking an internationally minded individual who could continue to be an advocate at MSU during the fall semester for the needs of Blessing Hands' students.  Interested students would need to apply by January 11th and be interviewed by a committee of our board.


Our intern would participate in at least one service project benefiting Blessing Hands students while they are in China.  In the fall of 2010 they would be a voice on campus for the needs of Blessing Hands children and an interpreter of Chinese culture. Some campus fund raising may be involved. Arrangement for class credit is possible. 

Interested applicants can contact Betty Cutts for an application at 606 784 4785 or write to bdcutts@blessing-hands.org.

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Recent Letters from College Students


October/ 2009
College Students Report

Thanks to you, we have 11 new Scholarship in the works!


I want to thank all of you who were moved by the needs of our college students and stepped up to help. I have one last challenge to give you.

A sponsor who is out of work has given $100 toward Mo Chunfeng's $500 scholarship. I want to challenge you to match his sacrifice and complete her scholarship.

All it would take would be for four more people giving $100 each or 8 people giving $50 each.  She has recently written again to ask for help. I know some of you have thought about giving, but never did it. Mo Chunfeng's need is your chance to help. This is her letter.
 
My name is Mo Chunfeng, my house is located in a small village. As a child my mother went to town to work, but only eked out a living. Unfortunately, my mother was in a car accident in 2002, and we had to go around the whole family to borrow money to pay for her medical expenses. But my mother was disabled, and my family's little source of income was cut off.  What is undoubtedly worse. is that Dad has always been frail, and my grandmother has been disabled since childhood. 

Now my younger brother is in high school, and our family has put all their hopes on me. I would also like to support my family as soon as possible. I have always had a dream to go to college, but the university tuition fees for our family is undoubtedly out of reach. 

I hope that good people can give me a hand out of love. I would be grateful.

Thanks,  


Mo Chenfeng  莫春凤
 
Featured Students
Huang Zhang Er

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Dear friend, are you
all right?
Yesterday, I took part in the British charity's Save the Children volunteer training activities. A  total of more than 50 volunteers are involved in the training activities. I am very happy to know so many caring volunteers and friends. They are excellent  and very humble. Yesterday, I trained a total of one and a half hours.  Under the agreement,  in the coming year, in my spare time I will be doing volunteer work.  My job is mainly to teach elementary school kids at Yuxing Primary School some cultural knowledge.  I am very worried because I am afraid I will not be able to teach good. I want to bring them knowledge and happiness..

黄章娥
Zhang Er is fully sponsored

Huang Xuan
 First, thank you for your help.
  Then, I will tell you something about my college life in Changsha.
At the beginning, I couldn't  adapt to the new life here, I often felt homesick. I didn't know what to do. Luckily, I came across a group of lovely people. They're my new classmates.We come from different parts of the country,and we make a new big family here. Now, I have made many friends here. As to me, I just try my best to do everything I will come across.
    Everything here is going well.
    Last, I want to say thank you to you again.

 Huang Xuan
[黄 璇

Xuan is fully sponsored.

Lin Jiafeng
Dear sponsor,
  Thank you very much for helping me in my troubled
time. I am a student at You Jiang Medical College for Nationalities. My name is Lin Jiafeng. I am very grateful for you because you have given me a university  scholarship which is very important for me.
  I am majoring in nursing in Guangxi Province of China. I  have made up my mind to study harder.

Jiafeng was the first student to get a new scholarship this year. She made the highest score in our scholarship process. I am sure she will do well in college.

林.家凤

Jiafeng is fully sponsored.


He Songke
I am He Songke, a student. I am very happy to tell you that I am at college now. I am enrolled in Xia Jiaotong Universty . I like it here, and I like studying here. I know I will learn much after I study here for 4 years.

I want to tell you something. I joined  a club in our school. Its name is 扬帆社。 It helps helpless children very often. I Joined the club because I want to help them in their lives and study. I know what I can do is limited, but I will do as much as I can to help them. And what is more, I want to carry forward the spirit of Blessing
Hands.
何.松珂

The Biology and Ecology Clubs at Morehead State University have chosen to help sponsor Songke. He still needs $50 if you would like to help him top off his scholarship. Give at thislink by credit card.

Report by Abbie, Betty, and Doris of their July China Trip.



     People ask me how many times I have been to China. I have lost count. I will go again before April 30th because my Skymiles expire then. I am always eager to go and see what is happening with our students and friends.

     I am posting a news report that appeared in our local paper after we returned from our last China trip. Abbie Oney and Doris Wells give theirimpressions of the trip along with me.  I will give you a quote here, but you can read the whole article at this  link.  July China Trip 
 
Abbie Oney:  My trip to China has open my eyes to the world and to people that I have the ability to help, knowing that if our situations where switched they would do the same for me.

You can see pictures of our trip at this link. 

Photos of China

             







Yangshuo Fishing Birds


                                        Grandmother Mo
Sacrifice a Few Sodas



For the price of a few soda pops($2.75), our middle school students can eat three meals a day at school for a week. We have 53 middle school kids who need these meals. The price for a semester is $1,930. Through vacation Bible schools and the 5 K Run for Families we have raised $1,054 of the needed money. That just leaves $876so they can all have vegetables and some meat with their daily rice. Help them have a full stomach every day.

You can send your checks to Blessing Hands, 106 Timber Lane, Morehead, KY 40351 or give at this link on our web page. 
   
 Middle School Meals   


Sincerely with Thanks,
 
Betty Cutts

Blessing Hands
106 Timber Lane
Morehead, KY 40351

219 232 8887

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Report of the 5 K Run for Families

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A Beautiful Day for a Run
90 Registered for the Run


We had a great day for a Run and a great course. All the runners seemed to enjoy the day very much. You can hear their comments by watching these videos on Youtube or our Flip Camera Channel or YouTube Channel. Check them out. You might see yourself. Photo are at this address. Photos of the Run

Challenging but didn't kill us.
Two called Emily

A Good Run, a Good Course
Colton Halverson, Winner
Blessing Hands' Table

Gunilla Bowling and Tim Kelly
Daryl and Diana Caskey
Student Runners


Runners waiting at the start line.




The Gamma Phi Beta Sorority volunteered at the run. They did a great job at registration and the food table.




The Huang Family helped at the Blessing Hands display table. We were looking for sponsors for our students and displaying the Yangshuo student art for sale. Clark You, a visiting scholar from China, also helped from beginning to end.




5 K Run for Families Awards

Area businesses gave many great prizes for the leading runners in age and gender categories. Everyone got a chance for a door prize. The overall winner with the fastest time was Colton Halverson. He won a $300 home stereo given by Colorama.




Two teams raised money before the run. The team from the Diagnostic Imaging Department of St. Claire Medical Center raised $1,000 with 23 members. The team captain was Kevin Sharp. They even had their own t-shirts for Team Rad. 













The Maysville Community and Technical College raised $200 with three team members
attending. Thanks goes left to right to faculty member Karen May, student Ellen Brown, and vista worker Hannah Diedrichson.

They raised t
heir money $2.75 at a time with a Sacrifice a Soda Campaign. $2.75, the price of three sodas, will feed one of our lower middle school students three meals a day for a week.


Earl and Diana Caskey with friends at the run. The Caskeys run every day.

Not all the donations and expenses are in yet, but it looks like we will have at least $1,400 to divide. Send in your donations now before we settle the run accounts.

If you have received this newsletter because you registered for the run, we encourage you to remain on our newsletter list. If, however, you are not interested in receiving our regular newsletter, just unsubscribe safely in the line above the header. Our newsletter comes about twice a month and gives news of our kids in China and Blessing Hands events.  Your information has been saved to contact you about the run next time.

Warming Up
Great News

Qin Qiong just got a $500 scholarship given by a Morehead Businessman.
Now she and her sisters can get an education.

This makes 9 new scholarships given through Blessing Hands by sponsors. One student, Mo Zongli, received a scholarship through another Yangshuo charity after his need was advertised by the Yangshuo TV station.


If you are thinking of giving a scholarship,
now is the time to act.


Link to give

Forward this e-mail to
 your friends and family and change a life.


Checks can be sent to

Blessing Hands
106 Timber Lane
Morehead, Kentucky 40351
Phone: 219 232 8887


Ezra Dike, Habitat Director               Jamie Sparks, Physical Education                                                                              Teacher at McBrayer Elementary School and Runner

     
Dustin Coyle, Youth Pastor At First    Bob Grueninger, retired MSU PhD.
Baptist Church and Runner              Teacher and Runner

 
Jan Lewis from C.Roger Lewis Real Estate Agency and also a Runner

Committee Members of the 5 K Run For Families

Thanks Everyone,

Betty Cutts
Twitter with me.
                                        Blessing Hands

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

October 3rd is the 5K Run






You are Invited to the Rescheduled
5 K Run for Families


It is official. We have rescheduled the Run for Families for this coming Saturday, October 3rd. It will be at the Moonlight Stage Pavilion on 1st Street in Morehead, KY. Registration will start from 7 am with the run at 8 am.

Come on out and get one of our cool T-shirts designed by Dusty Coyle, shown in the center of this picture of Ezra Dike and me. If you raise $35 in donations, you get a free T-shirt. You can also buy one for $10.60.

Ezra is the Morehead Habitat Director. You can hear Ezra and me on the radio program Front Page with Chuck Mraz at the link below. One friend said she never knew enough about Blessing Hands or Habitat until she listened to the program. Maybe it will help you get to know us better too.

MP3 of 5 K Run Radio Program

We had great volunteers and participants turn out in the rain last Saturday. We hope you will come this Saturday. We have great prizes. The grand prize is a home stereo surround system worth $300 given by Colorama. It will go to the fastest runner regardless of gender or age.

The course can be found at this link. Try it out ahead of time.

Pre-register at this link.

Thanks,
Betty Cutts

Contact us by e-mail

For more information contact Ezra Dike 606 784-8408
or Betty Cutts 606 784 4785.


Saturday, September 26, 2009

Mo Chunfeng Needs a Scholarship to College



Mo Chunfeng's Parents are Disabled From An Accident








Mo Chunfeng Needs a Scholarship


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You can give a $500 scholarships to Chunfeng by credit card at this link.
Checks can be sent to Blessing Hands at 106 Timber Lane, Morehead, KY 40351. Any amount is welcomed.






About Chunfeng


Mo Chunfeng is accepted at
Guilin Tourist University. She wants to major in management or business administration. She has been a Blessing Hands student for three years. She has a 27 year old sister that supports the whole family. She graduated from Baisha High School this year.

She and her family believe in a positive attitude toward life.


You can view her movie on Youtube at this address.









Mo Chungfeng




There are six members in my family- grandma, father, mother, sister, brother, and me. My Mother and Father became persons with disabilities in a traffic accident. My mother's leg was lost, and my Father's leg was broken in two in that accident. After my father's leg was joined, my father had much difficulty working. The bad driver ran away without paying any medical fees. My mother was badly injured, and the medical fee was very high- more than 100,000 yuan ($14,684 US). We borrowed money from our friends and relatives. The money was not enough, so we tried to get a loan from a bank.
So now our family owes a lot of debt. Now my mother has nothing to do but walk with a walking stick and can't look after the family at all. My grandmother was bitten by a snake in in her foot when she was young. Without any money she couldn't go to see the doctor, so she became disabled because of that.
My younger brother will graduate from junior middle school and go to senior middle school very soon. I will go to college, so we will need a lot of money to pay for our schooling. Now the only laborer in our family is my elder sister. There is some trouble to pay for the fee of our daily life, so how can we afford the schooling of my brother and me? What is more, we still have to pay back our debt.
I'm a student who longs for knowledge. I'm looking forward to going to college to learn more knowledge, so I long for the scholarship. I hope you can help me realize my dream of going to college.

Mo Chunfeng
National Score 341




Blessing Hands is a 503 (c)(3) US charity that helps students in Yangshuo and Qinzhou, China go to school. We have had 23 students apply for college scholarships this year and eight of them have gotten sponsors through our newsletter. One more, Mo Zongli, received a scholarship from a different US Charity that has sent him to college.

You can review all the scholarship newsletters on our blog at this link. Chunfeng is the last student to be featured unless some that have not gotten college letters yet are accepted into college late. Thank you for your patience with the many newsletters we have sent out recently. We will go back to only a few newsletters a month now.

Betty Cutts
Director of Blessing Hands







Rained out with Lightning

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RAIN CHECK
5 K Run for Families is postponed until next Saturday, Oct. 3rd.

The lightning called off the run today. We have tentatively set the 5 K Run/Walk for Families for next Saturday at the same time and place.

We had a wonderful group of volunteers show up today in the rain. Thank you all. Please come again in a week. Look for a notice in the paper to confirm the event
.
We have a great T-shirt. Get one for $10.60. T-shirts are free if you raise $35 in donations.
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You can see the race course online at this link.
See you next Saturday - Lord Willing,


Betty Cutts

Blessing Hands



Thursday, September 24, 2009

Windy Worked This Summer to Earn Her College Tuition

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Blessing Hands
Change a Student's Life
In this issue...
Windy Worked Last Summer
Dasi High School
Two Sisters have a sponsor
Be a Blessing Hand

Windy Worked Last Summer to Earn her Tuition to College.

She did not get to make a movie or interview.

Liang Minmin called me on her teacher's phone twice while I was in China to emphasize her desire to go to college and explain why she could not be in Qinzhou to interview for a scholarship. She was working to make money for college. She also sent me many pictures.

She has been accepted into a three year college and is majoring in computers. Only two Blessing Hands students from her school were accepted into college this year.

She entered her college on the 9th of September, but she still has not paid her tuition, because she does not have enough money. She is very eager to pay her tuition and be allowed to continue to study.

You can help her with a gift of $500 for a scholarship. This
link will allow you to use your credit card, or you can send a check to Blessing Hands, 106 Timber Lane, Morehead, KY, 4035.

If you can only give a little, she would still gladly receive it. Please also forward this to others you know who might be interested in helping her.


Blessings,
Betty Cutts
Founder of Blessing Hands

Windy speaks for herself.


I'm a student from Dasi Middle school. My name is Liang Minmin, and Windy is my English name. I have been a Blessing Hands student for three years. With the help of Blessing Hands, I can finish my senior study. So I am touched. I say thanks for Blessing Hand's help.
I like studying. I know knowledge can change my life. Because of my poor condition, I haven't any choice. I want to apply for a scholarship. My family is very poor. I have three sisters and two brothers. They are all students. We need a lot of money. My parents are farmers. My grandparents are very old. They are in poor health. My grandmother is always in the hospital. My parents cannot afford the medical treatment and our tuition. So I really hope to receive your help.
Today, I receive your help, but later I will help those who need help in the future.
Best wishes,

Liang Minmin
National Score 355
Contact Information
106 Timber Lane
Morehead, Kentucky 40351
219 232 8887


Dasi High School

A Rural School of Several Thousand Students



















I asked to visit Dasi School in July because I had always been impressed with the teacher's dedication to her 10 Blessing Hands students. The students live so far from school yet. Jenny Huang, the Blessing Hands volunteer teacher at Dasi, is always able to get her students to our tuition gatherings in Qinzhou, even though her students have to come a long way from their homes.

Jenny is in red under the blue umbrella in the photo. Dasi High School is very proud of their graduates like Minmin that get accepted into colleges.

Here you can see pictures of Dasi High School.

Classroom
classroom

Dorm with laundry drying.
Students sleep 12 to a room and sometimes two to a bed.




Teacher's rooms








Concrete ping pong tables



Teachers' dorms




Reading room

Recent Letter from Windy

I came to school on 9th, but I have not handed in the tuition until now, because I don't have enough money. Blessing Hands helped me with tuition continually (when she was in high school). I'm so happy and touched. Thank you.

At the same time, thanks to all the people who help me.


Liang Minmin

Qin Yuqiong's Two Sisters Have a Sponsor now.

Good news!

Qin Yuqiong does not have a sponsor yet, but her two sisters have a sponsor. One person wrote and asked to support the two younger sisters. Thank you so much.


I just hope that Qin Yuqiong herself will get a sponsor. You can give to her at this
link.

Follow-up Links
About Us

Blessing Hands is a 501 (c)(3) tax exempt USA charity that helps Chinese students in Yangshuo and Qinzhou, China go to school. Yangshuo is the Sister City of Morehead, KY, where Blessing Hands is located. We emphasize that our students can become blessing hands as they have been blessed. We have over 360 students from primary to college age in our program.

World Habitat Day

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5 K Run/Walk for Families

This Saturday is the
5 K Run/Walk for Families.


This Saturday Blessing Hands is joining with Habitat for Humanity to sponsor a 5 K run. We are excited and hope that you participate by coming or sending in a donation for the event.

I went recently to the dedication of a Habitat home. Habitat helps folks build their own homes using volunteers, low interest loans, and sweat equity from the home owners. With the help of many donors and friends a low income family can have their own home for the first time.

This is a picture of the proud new home owner. He let me take his picture in his new kitchen. He is a factory worker and has looked forward to his own home for two years.

The United Nations has chosen the first Monday in October to be
World Habitat Day - a day to stand up and let it be known that "affordable, adequate housing should be a priority everywhere." You can read more about it at this link.

"
Raising awareness about this global problem is the first step in making sure that everyone everywhere has a safe and decent place to call home."

This is the photo is of the Habitat home we dedicated with prayer and music. Ezra Dike, the new Morehead Habitat director, recently received a $100 community award for service, He has given that award to one of our scholarship students who is majoring in biology. He also is a key supporter of Substainable Morehead, a local recycling organization that is encouraging home pick up of items that can be recycled.

What great organizations to give to. Two with one event. If you want to support the 5 K Run for Families with a donation, make your checks to either Blessing Hands or Habitat for Humanity. Mail them to Blessing Hands, 106 Timber Lane, Morehead, KY.

You can also give any amount by credit card at this
link.

Donations for the run will be divided equally between Blessing Hands and Habitat for Humanity.


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You are invited To Our Run

September 26, 2009

Moonlight Stage Pavilion, 187 1st Street, Morehead, KY 40351

Registration begins at 7:30a.m. Run starts at 8:00 a.m.
Awards Ceremony: 9:30 am

Entry Fees:$10 (T-Shirt extra)
$5 for students
$10 adults
Children under 12 free

Awards and categories will be divided by age and gender into classes for runners + Grand Prize for the fastest overall time by gender.

Door prizes will be drawn for merchant donated items at Awards Ceremony at 9:30 am

Runner Ages:18 & under, 19 to 25, 26-35, 36-45, 46-55, 56-65, 66+

Teams:
10 person teams are encouraged to collect pre-race donations. Any team that raises $500 or more will receive special recognition.

Greeks, school and youth groups, family, and business teams are welcomed.

Print out the team fundraising form to fill out and mail.

Entry Forms/Fliers and Preregistration:
US Bank, 122 E. Main St., Morehead, KY, 40351
Fuzzy Duck Coffee Shop, 240 Morehead Plaza, Morehead, KY, 40351

Directions: Turn North from US 60 at Bridge St. near the Rowan County Library. You can see the outdoor stage from the East 60 By Pass also called W. Wilkerson Blvd. Map link
Parking: Near Rowan County Public Library and Morehead Conference Center

Benefits:
Your generosity will help families have new homes in the Morehead Area and educate students in our Sister City of Yangshuo, China.

Volunteers:
Contact Ezra Dike by calling 784-8408 or email:
moreheadhabitat@yahoo.com

Contact Information:
Ezra Dikes or Betty Cutts
moreheadhabitat@yahoo.comm or blessinghands@gmail.com
Phone: 606 784 8408 or 219 232 8887
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Thanks to our Sponsors of the
5K Run for Families


Sponsored by:
Platinum Level Sponsors: Holbrook Drugs, Whitaker Bank, St. Claire Medical Center, Good Shepherd Printing, Sustainable Morehead, Hamilton, Inc, Commercial Signs, Freedom Radio FM 91.7, Main Street Textbooks, Northcutt and Son Home for Funerals, All Seasons Flower and Gifts, Emerson Power Transmission, and All Seasons Florists, and Great Clips

Gold Level Sponsors: US Bank, China Café, Wholesale Auto Parts, Creations by Jacquelyn, Wendy's, Rowan County Veterinary Clinic, Richie's Auto Detailing, Chris's Guitar Shop, Appalachian Goldsmith Company, Curves, Every Bodies Fitness 24-7, Spurlock Spine Centre,The Salon and Day Spa, and La Finca Restaurant

Silver Level Sponsors: Sloan Market, Bo's Barber Shop, Bluegrass Beauty School, Morehead Tire and Auto, Reno's Roadhouse, Stuckey's Beauty Shop, Shoney's Major Brands, Jeannette's Catering, Richie's Auto Detailing, Media One, Mustard Seed Christian Book Store, C. Roger Lewis Agency, and Ponderosa

Copper Level Sponsors: E
campus.com, Blue Grass Beauty School, Kroger, A Head of Time, Cindy's New Image, Bo's Barber Shop, Ann's Hair and Body Studio, McDonald's, Penn Station, Cici Pizza, the Villa, Sunshine World Car Wash, Scrub Shack, Big 4 Lumber Company, Mary's Hair Fashion, Hardees, Shoe Sensation.

Sincerely,

Betty Cutts
Blessing Hands Director


Send checks to the address below.
Use your credit card at this
link.

Blessing Hands
106 Timber Lane
Morehead, Kentucky 40351
219 232 8887
Blessing Hands is a 501 (c)(3) public charity that assists families and students in Yangshuo and Qinzhou, China with educational needs. We have over 300 students we are helping in secondary school and 50 students who receive $500 college tuition scholarships.
Our mission is to bless them so they can become blessing hands to others

Friday, September 18, 2009

Huang Jiayan has started school


Good News! Huang Jiayan wrote me from her college. She has received her loan and started school. It was touch and go there for awhile since our administrator in Qinzhou, Anna Liu, landed in the hospital with inner ear problems that made her feel like she was sea sick. She could not go to the bank to wire the needed scholarships for this semester.

Another teacher, Gavin, stepped in to help Anna and the essential wires got sent, but others are still waiting to be sent. In China people don't use checks but bank transfers and cards to pay for things. At this season there are long lines at the banks because parents are sending college money all at one time. Gavin has very little time to stand in line since he is teaching full time.

Another problem is that Anna is too sick to come to her office to show him where the information on each student's bank is filed. I have sent those files by internet, but even I don't have some bank information if the student didn't put it on their application form.


At least Jiayan has started her semester with joy. I am happy too because the loan I gave her is being repaid by people who have sent in money in honor of my 64th birthday. I think we will get the full $500 eventually from people who know me and want to support my efforts to help the kids in China. I was born on 9/11, but it is a joyful day for me still. I tell people I had it first before the terrorist.

In case you did not see her video, I have put it here.
video

We Made a Deal with Qin Yuqiong

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FEATURED QUOTE

Doris Wells: "Our Blessing Hands students come from the rural areas of China, and they and their parents know that the only chance they have of improving their economic situation is to get an education.

It is almost impossible for many of these rural students whose parents may be sick, dead, not have many fields to farm, or have no family to borrow school money from to attend school. Blessing Hands is able to find supporters to help these students enter the schools they have tested into.

While I was in China,
I was blessed to meet the young man my husband and I support. His father has died, so his mother is a single parent. His scholarship enables him to attend a good high school. "










Checks can be sent to
Blessing Hands
106 Timber Lane
Morehead, KY 40351



Qin Yuqiong Dreams of Being an Accountant or Manager


I Want to Change My Life.

My Name is Qin Yuqiong. The reason I want to go to college is I want to change my life. My English name is Shirley. I was born into a poor family. I am nineteen now. There are five persons in my family; Father, Mother, two sisters and me. My father's health is not good. He can't do much work, especially heavy work. My mother has to work for others to earn some money to support the family. My two younger sisters are students too. One is 15 and the other is 17.

There are few fields in my family, so life is very hard and poor. My family situation is not good. Every beginning semester while I was in school, my parents had to borrow money for me to go to school from family and neighbors. Then in my first year in high school Blessing Hands began to help me. Because of your help a heavy burden was released from my family.

Now that I have graduated I want to enter college, but I am afraid that my family doesn't have enough money to let me finish my college. I sincerely hope that you can continue helping me. I would appreciate it if you can give me college aid. I will continue to work hard in my studies.What I want to say most is thank you, thank you so much for your help.
Qin Yuqiong



We Made a Deal

When Qin Yuqiong interviewed for a college scholarship in Yangshuo, she was troubled. She thought that if she went to college, she would take money that her younger sisters needed for their high school education.

Students is China must pay for their own last three years of education. It cost about $500 for a year of high school. She had almost decided to go to work to support her sisters in school, and her parents wanted her to do that also. But her dream of college brought her to the college interview.

When we heard her story, we were touched. Doris, one of the Americans interviewing her, puzzled about how to help her. Finally Doris suggested a plan. If Blessing Hands enrolled her two younger sisters in our high school tuition program, would she feel free to go on to college?

Finally we made a deal with her. If she tried to go to college, we would sponsor her two sisters for $160 a year in high school. This deal is good even if no sponsor like you picks QinYuqiong to sponsor in college. We could not assure her that a sponsor would pick her.

So Blessing Hands has added two new high school students from the Qin family. Would you would like to sponsor one of them or give Yuqiong a $500 scholarship.

You can see her scholarship Youtube Video at this link.

Help her dreams come true.




Make College Possible
for Qin Yuqiong


Give $500 at this link on our web page. Or give any amount to help.

Sponsor one of her sisters at $80 a semester. Use Google Checkout on our blog.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.




Contact Information

Director of Blessing Hands
Betty Cutts
219 232 8887