Thanks for visiting our website and learning about our charity that helps impoverished children stay in school.
Sunday, November 01, 2015
#GoodGivingGuide Challenge - November 13th - Dec 31st.
Blessing Hands is involved with the GoodGiving challenge that will help 100 chosen KY nonprofits raise money for their causes. The charity that raises the most in the various size categories will win $5,000 for their endowments at the Bluegrass Community Foundation. The categories count how much is donated and how many donors support what causes. Those donations can come from all over the world.
Matching Funds
Blessing Hands is looking for friends willing to establish matching gift promotional challenges. We can raise more money if supporters will give us matching gifts from $100 on up to $500 + so we can challenge other givers to match the gift. Contact usabout being a matching donor.
CrowdFunding Pages
Another way you can help our kids receive a $5,000 endowment prize is to become an Ambassador. You would create your own online crowdfunding page with the help of an Ambassador toolkit at this link. We especially need pages in Chinese since the GoodGiving Challenge is international. All the money you raise for Blessing Hands will go to our students or to give 24 computers to Du'an Special Education School in China.
Give
Help us raise awareness and funds for our Blessing Hands students by saving the date and making a donation online from November 13-December 31 on our share page.
Chat with me on WeChat ( Zhufuzhishou) or view our WeChat page. (blessing_hands)
Their schooling will end with 9th grade.
Give 24 Computers to Du'an Special Education School
Our GoodGiving Goal is to raise $13,000 to give 24 computers to Du'an special education school in China. We want to give the students an opportunity to learn to communicate online where their handicap will not be noticed, and they can develop vocational skills.
These computers will serve deaf, blind, and wheelchair bound students. I even saw one dwarf and an autistic child. Since compulsory education ends at the 9th grade in China, these students only have until middle school graduation to learn occupational skills. Computer knowledge could help them get jobs someday. We must intervene in these students lives to give them a step up in opportunities.
Our share page is where you can give starting November 13th. You can also give on our Website.
Besides Braille, she could be learning to use computers.
Qin Liling is 8 years old andin the 2nd grade.
The Wuxuan County Program Adds More Children
Will it be 9 or 5 who are helped?
We were so pleased with the volunteers' dedication in the Wuxuan area, that we told them to select 5 more students for Blessing Hands to help. However, they had found 9 children they wanted to help. It will be up to your help if we take all nine or only the five.
Qin Liying and her sister Qin Qinli are orphans. Her father died August, 2015 of electrocution. Their mother suffers from mental illness. Once she even tried to strangled one child during an attack of illness. Five years ago, the mother ran away. So far she is still missing.
Qin Qinli is 9 and in the 3rd grade.
Qin Qinli, the 9 year-old stepsister of Qin Liying,hasn't been allowed to register a hukou, which would have given her a birthright to government services. She is a non-person who will live outside the protection of the law. She lives without any subsistence allowance, access to a high school degree, legal work permit, or future legal marriage. She is 9 years old but looks like a 7 year-old because of malnutrition. Both girls suffer from poverty and lack of provisions.
Liao Songliang's father died in 2014. He has become depressed and often asks where his father is. His mother is mentally ill and has returned to her mother's home, so his 80 year old grandfather takes care of him.
Caizhuan's father died in 2008 and his mother remarried. After she had a son, she was not interested in her first family of Caizhuan and his 4 sisters.
Chan Xing with volunteers. Chan Xing needs a sponsor to help him finish high school. Chan Xing's mother died when he was 10, and his father, who once was a teacher, went out to work and died of AIDS in 2015. His 90 year old grandmother and a cousin are trying to help him finish high school in 2018.
While it is good weather, Dr. Dai and his volunteers have delivered new school supplies to the schools we have adopted in the Longfu County of Du'an. These schools that serve kindergarten - 2nd grade are very remote and hard to get to. We had to get out and walk this summer when our team tried to go up the steep road on the way to Lin Wang School.
The teacher appreciates the
exercise books
These kids need exercise books, pencils, erasers, art supplies, and sports equipment such as hula hoops. basketballs, ping pong supplies, and other things. They can't hop in a car and go to town and even if they could, their families don't have the money to spend.Their teachers board at the schools, going home occasionally. They do have new schools, desks, and nutritious lunches now.
We have cash jars in local Chinese restaurants that collect money for this program. Some students have sponsors and receive backpacks and other gifts like clothes or shoes. We also pay the salary of health assistants for 10 village schools in Du'an County. They are first responders when medical care is needed. Longfu Hospital works with Blessing Hands to help special families. Recently we helped get glasses for one high school girl.
Wei Senbao, his cousin Sencai and two other girls receive special sponsorship in this area. Click on the pictures to see more pictures.
If you would like to sponsor a primary school child in one of our programs, please contact us.
You can give any amount for our primary programs at this link.
New Jackets for Students
Students Receive Clothing Gifts from Chery.cn
New coats and clothes given to our Qinzhou Program
An automobile businessman has given new jackets and other clothes to our 160 high school students in Qinzhou. Volunteers will take the clothes to the high schools when they go to give the students their semester's tuition.
We featured our students who need sponsors at the Arts and Eats Festival in Morehead and the Moon Festival in Lexington. Several Chinese students volunteered to write people's names in Chinese for a donation. $133 was donated, and we collected contacts to send our email newsletter. We also made $36 from selling lemonade. Another volunteer team leaded by Christina Zhang and our board member, Erting Pan, manned a table at the Lexington Moon Festival on the same day.
School has started and many students still need sponsors. It is very rewarding to see students grow and fulfill their dreams of education. You can take a student to sponsor. See our students featured on Pinterest.com.
I was buying a book on Amazon today when I remembered their charity program to give .5% of my purchase to Blessing Hands. Put a smile on the face of a child.
Just think you can give twice. Putsmile.Amazon.cominto your browser bar, and you can give to the charity of your choice. We hope you will choose Blessing Hands.
Kroger Community Rewards®
Eric Zhang with Miao Students. Eric suggested we help students in his home province, Yunnan.
Kroger is committed to helping our communities grow and prosper. Blessing Hands has received $663.88 from the Kroger program since we registered last September. Kroger Community Rewards® makes fund-raising easy...all you have to do is shop at Kroger and swipe your Plus Card!
Once signed in, you can enroll or update your Community Rewards choice of Blessing Hands under your account settings. If you did it last year, you still have to enroll again each August. If you live in Kentucky, sign up now and choose Blessing Hands. If you are in another state, choose a good charity that also helps children.
Blessing Hands, 106 Timber Lane, Morehead, KY 40351
Zhang lives with his 70 year old grandparents, who are weak themselves. His parents are missing.
Another sponsorship program in
Gansu Province
Ou's father has been ill this year and the family has had a hard time with bills. She is a
high school student.
We have accepted 10 new students to sponsor in Gansu Province 甘肃省 with the help of volunteer Roy Hu. These students are all ages from primary to high school. Gansu is a poor province in Northwest China where little rain falls. Their sponsorship will vary in cost. They will need 1800 yuan ($290) for primary students, 225 yuan ($366) for middle school student, and 2700 yuan ($435) for high school students per year. We are encouraging monthly payments through your bank's bill pay to make the payments easier.
Hu has a dream to make a difference in the world. He has 2 sisters and a brother. He is a lower middle school student.
Gansu, located in the Northwest is one of the Provinces of China that lacks water and good soil. Earthquakes, droughts and famines affect the area. Mining, oil, and mineral extraction are their main sources of income. The Gobi Desert where China's space program is located is partly in the province. It is among the poorest provinces of China with a per capital income of 12,836 RMB (1,879 USD). 73% of the population is rural.
Guan Xiaofang has her scholarship now. We have 66 college scholarship students this year.
I want to thank all those who have given college scholarship this year. Most students have their full scholarships, but we still have a few whose sponsors have dropped out. Please consider helping the students below.
Guo Lunmin, in red, needs $100 more since she lost one sponsor. This is her last year studying landscaping.
Zeng Qunhui lacks $100. She is studying to be a teacher. This is her junior year.
Qin Guoying had a sponsor who had to drop out this year. You can sponsor her for $300. She is a junior studying law.
You can give for these students at this link on our website or send a check to:
Blessing Hands, 106 Timber Lane, Morehead, KY 40351
Our Kroger Plus Card promotion has netted us
$104.19 this quarter
Twenty families are enrolled. When you associate your Kroger card with Blessing Hands as your selected charity, we get 4% every time you shop, and you still get your Kroger points. Use this link to enroll if you are in Kentucky.
