July 2011 Health Assistant Workshop Longfu Township Longest Serving Village Doctor     We had a very successful Health Assistant Workshop in Longfu. Eighteen village doctors and health assistants participated with many others dropping in for special sessions. Janet Gross was our lead teacher, assisted by Blessing Hands intern, Leanna Gilliam.      Letters the students read on the last day showed their gratitude and respect for Janet Gross. Janet came from Africa without any pause to teach the class to the eager students. She is a Ph.D. trained nurse with cross cultural experience. She will be in Haiti next.  Janet Gross with Liushan Village (六山村)  Health Assistant, Meng Jinzhi 蒙金志 . Younger Health Assistants included four women. Most pictures in the newsletter will take you to a photo site of more pictures if you click them.  See a video of the workshop at this link. Health Assistant Workshop in Longfu Township Medical Donations Doctors at the Longfu Hospital were glad to receive supplies Doctors Receive Medical Supplies   Many items were donated from the US and carried in by our group and others from Morehead State University who visited Nanning in June. TV Interview with Mandy Ma Translating    Hard work by our team and donations from St. Claire Medical Center, Rowan County Health Department, People's Clinic, Jeff Fannin, Long Ridge Baptist Fellowship, and others were much appreciated by hospital and village doctors. Health assistants trained in our recent workshop in Guangxi Province received backpacks of supplies to carry back to their villages.    Read the Latest News Longfu Hospital's Medical Supplies Team Members Volunteers and Staff Quick Links Website Contact Us  Video of Health Assistant Workshop for Chinese readers Team Members Will Never Forget Their Experiences Kasey Towles gave gifts to children everywhere she went.      Kasey Towles and her son John Randall Towles have a special reason to love the kids of China. Their family adopted daughter Jubilee there six years ago. They sang at schools and hugged kids for three weeks. John Randall bought a guitar to assist in the performances. He was a perfect traveler, never complaining and always helpful to everyone.        Leanna Gilliam had never been abroad before and had many new experiences. She hiked up to the Ling Wang School with the group from Lexington Chinese Christian Fellowship.       Hong Lin and her family came from Lexington to see the children that their Vacation Bible School supports with extra food.  She brought two friends, who are researchers with doctor's degrees, Dr. Zunji Ke and Dr. Siying Wang, who also brought his daughter. Dr. Zunji Ke, of the Shanghai Chinese Academy, helped give out items to 11 single parent students 韦森宝 Wei Senbao with Hong Lin's Family Dr. Siying Wang, Anhui Medical School in China, (center) Janet Gross Preparing to Teach Leanna Gilliam and a special friend at Ling Wang School Kasey and John Randall Towles Singing at Gaotian National School China Volunteers and Staff Pan Lan, translator of local dialects      We could never have done so much without the aid of great volunteer translators and our staff members there. Pan Lan, Shi Huaping, Yaya Luo and many others helped translate. Mandy Ma with Long Wang Primary School Water Purifier      Mandy Ma is the Blessing Hands director in Longfu, and was very effective as translator, coordinator, and tour guide. She arranged for local officials to meet us and cleared the way for the installation of a water purifier at Long Wang Primary School.  Yaya Luo gave out toothbrushes at Liushan Primary      Yaya Luo, our director in Yangshuo, helped us for the whole trip, even taking three of us to Guizhou Province to visit her family and begin a tuition program for Buyi students from her old high school. Mr. Liang, Health Inspector of Du'an County, helped install the water purifier at Long Wang Primary School.     This newsletter is only about our Health Assistant Workshop, water purifier, and school support projects in Longfu Township. We will tell about our experiences in Yangshuo, Qinzhou, and An Long in other newsletters. We also interviewed college scholarship applicants, so we will be talking about our trip for several more newsletters.   Ling Wang Primary kids received gifts and milk.    I wish I could take you all along to see what your support is doing in China. Just today, I checked on all our business donation jars, which accumulated $50 to feed primary kids while I was in China. Seeing the kids get that food is something I wish all of you could do.  You can support our programs with donations at this link.  Sincerely, Betty Cutts Blessing Hands