Blessing Hands is a nonprofit charity serving rural students in Yangshuo and Qinzhou in the province of Guangxi, China.
Thursday, September 01, 2011
Moon Festival in Lexington, KY
Blessing Hands andLexington's Chinese
Moon Festival
Wei Senbao and the Moon
Wei Senbao with
Lianna Gilliam
Friends of Blessing Hands will be selling jewelry, baked goods, and cakes for the benefit of the Wei Senbao's medical fund and other Blessing Hands projects at this festival.
Last year a special friend of Blessing Hands won the moon cake contest and gave the prize money to Wei Senbao.
She was able to meet him this summer when her family traveled to China. This
year she is taking orders for moon cakes and has already raised $600 for Wei. It is very time consuming to make moon cakes so that might be her limit.
You can give to Blessing Hands right on your computer at this link.
Look forward to seeing everyone and enjoying the moon. Come by our table and pick up some of our new brochures and newsletters to share with your friends.
Chinese gather during the full moon in the month of September to enjoy the moon and family. They eat special traditional moon cakes and share in family fun.
Lexington's moon festival is Saturday September 10 at the Moon Dance Amphitheater in Beaumont Centre Circle, Saturday 4 pm - 8 pm, September 10, 2011.
Activities include a talent show, drawing contest, moon cake competition, Chinese essay and drawing contest, dance and music performances.
The event is hosted by the Kentucky Chinese America Association every year. There will be displays by community groups & vendors especially from 2 to 4 o'clock.
Free access to Beaumont Centre Family YMCA facilities and lantern making activities (For more info, call 859 219-9622 ext. 24).
Delicious Chinese foods available for purchase but free to members of KCAA. For more information, call 267 280-3537 or 859 533-6183.
Donate to Blessing Hands with Google Checkout. Blessing Hands is a 501(c)(3)tax exempt charity.
Welcome
Welcome to our Blessing Hands Blog. We hope you will find out more about our charity and our students here. Maybe you will want to support a child or become a pen pal. We invite your participation.
If you want to give funds to our students, you can click the Google Checkout button and give any amount. High school students need $80 a semester and college students need $500 a year. If you want to help with food for junior students that is $35 a semester, and $30 will give needed school supplies to primary students for a semester.
Welcome to Blessing Hands' blog.
I am a mother and housewife that loves China and children. The two interests have come together in serving the children of China who need help with educational needs. I started as a teacher in an English summer camp and got to know the teachers first. When I toured their schools and met their precious students, I could see many needs and decided to try to help.
I first started a fund to assist children with tuition, but it has expanded into a 501(c)(3)public charity granting money for textbooks and school supplies for primary school and lower middle school students and tuition for older students.