September 2008
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Sunny Received her $500 Scholarship I am proud to know you sponsors. You have given so generously and with such heart. Thank you so much on behalf of the Blessing Hands students. I feel really blessed too. Chen Only Lacks $105 I know that Chen's teachers and classmates have supported him all the way.		In This Issue Huang F. Kingsley Mo Huang Y. Quick Links Blessing Hands Blog Website Photo page
Huang F's Scholarship Essay My name is Huang. First I would like to thank all the kind-hearted people for supporting me during the last two years. I have many words I want to express with my thinking, but here only one word can I use. Thank you very much for your help! My home town is in Lingshan County. I have two brothers. One is an undergraduate now studying in Hunan Province. The other is a senior student.Although the undergraduate brother applied for the national loan every year, I and my two brothers' tuition expenses are very large. My father earns little because of his sick body. My father always borrows money from some relatives. Without their help, I can't sit in the bright classroom. Therefore, in order to help my family, I need your help too. My father earns so little that it is hard to support my family, but my mom is a hard working woman, leaving home to work for seven years. Now I have received the help from Blessing Hands, which really reduced my pressures. Therefore I really thank Blessing Hands from the bottom of my heart. I am eager to be one of the students of Guangdong Industrial University majoring in vehicle engineering. Guangdong is China's economically developed zone. I think choosing such a major will make it better for me to find a job and support help for my family in the future. Two years ago, I was proud of becoming a Blessing Hand student. Though I will be a worker someday, I will always remember I am a Blessing Hand student forever. Thank you, Huang ID: 61 National Score: Unknown Mechanical Engineering Kingsley Mo's Scholarship Essay I'm Kingsley. My family name is Mo. There are six people in my family, my grandma, my father, my mother, my elder sister, my younger brother, and I. We are poor, but we live a happy life. My hometown is a beautiful place. If you go to travel there, maybe I can be your guide. I am a student who has received Blessing Hand's help more than two years. During that time, I understand what love is. Love falls like the gentle rain from the sky upon the earth. It is twice blessed: It blesses those who give it, and those who receive it. It is the highest of the highest. We should learn to help others. Where there is help, there is love. How can you hope for help yourself if you show none? I believe if everyone devotes a little love to society, the world will become a place filled with love. I will take my love wherever I go in the future. Thank you, Blessing Hands! It is you who let me know helping others is glory! Yours, Kingsley Student ID: 95 National Score: 487 Interpreter Huang Y's Scholarship Essay This is my application for a Blessing Hands Scholarship for the fall of 2008. I was born in a peasant family with five members. My parents are farmers, my elder brother has no regular profession, and my younger sister and I are students. My parents work day and night to feed the family, but we still find it hard to make ends meet. Because of the overloaded labors year after year, my mother has suffered chronic gynecological diseases and has to spend several thousand Yuan on treatment every year. Under these conditions, my father has to do a lot of labor work to earn tuition for my younger sister and me besides doing the farming. Furthermore, our house collapsed many years ago, and we are too poor to rebuild it. Now, we live with my uncle, and I finished my senior school on scholarship. So, if I pass the university entrance exam, it is impossible for my parents to pay for the high tuition. I have been the monitor of my class for many years and a member of the Student Union; therefore, I have a strong capacity for organizing and communicating. From elementary school to senior school, my scores always ranked among the best. To go to a university is my dream. Therefore, I really want to get a scholarship to make my dream come true. I intend to major in marketing and trade at Guangxi University. Please consider my application for a scholarship to college. Sincerely yours, Huang ID: 171 National Score: 397 Major: Business
Join our Blessing Hands sponsor family. I like to treat the Blessing Hands kids like my own sons. I would want my sons to go to college. Help these students fulfill their hard worked for dreams. Give to the students with the Google Checkout Button. You can give any amount. Checks can be sent to Blessing Hands, 106 Timber Lane, Morehead, KY, 40351. If you are in another nation, write to us for directions about how to give. Blessings, Betty Cutts

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Scholarship Students Our students are ripe, Pick one now.
Zhang has been picked for a $500 scholarship Sunday Liu has been picked for a $500 scholarship. Cheng's video on Youtube can be seen by clicking on this link. Cheng's Video	Students are leaving for college now. There are still a few colleges that start later, but the harvest is ripe in China. Pick your student. Several students are still hoping for complete sponsorships. All will get whatever you give, even if it is only a little. Chen needs $135 more. Pan needs $250 more. Liang needs $485 more. You can see all the students by clicking here. Pick one!
Cheng's Scholarship Essay My name is Cheng. I live in a poor country which lies in Pubei, Qingzhou, Guangxi. I was born into a family that lives by farming, but I am afraid of being poor, because I have a dream - a dream that I can go to university to learn more knowledge, which is a foundation for me. After I graduate, I think I can achieve it. By going to the university I can not only can get rid of poverty but also make a contribution to society. Only in this way can I make my dream. This is another way which I can spread blessing hands. I have a very poor family. I have 5 brothers, and they are all at school. Last year we had a heavy snow. All the bananas were destroyed, so we lost a lot of money. My father had an accident last year, and he stayed at the hospital for nearly four months. It took a lot of money. After that he cannot work normally. I need help. Thank you very much. Cheng ID: 261 National Score: 503 Teacher Shen's Scholarship Essay I was born and raised in the countryside. My aged parents are at home. I have an elder brother who is now studying in Xinxiang Medical College in Henan Province, and I have a younger sister who is in the 3rd grade in primary school. My hometown has very poor economic conditions. Our family's income mainly comes from growing crops. However, it is very difficult to pay the living expenses and tuition of three children based on their limited income. It makes my heart ache seeing my parents getting older day by day. It is such a great burden for my parents to support me to continue my education, but I am really eager to learn knowledge. I believe that learning can change one's destiny. I do not want to repeat the life of my ancestors, whose life only depended on agriculture. I want to learn and work hard for my ideals. Also, I will work hard continuously for changing my destiny by education. In a few days, I will participate in the 2008 National College Entrance Examination, and now I am studying very hard and busy preparing for it. I will take the exam with all my confidence. I believe that I will go to my ideal university. In the past, I was worried about the college tuition, but now, if I am awarded a Blessing Hands scholarship, I know this is my hope, and my hope will be fulfilled. Also I can make an effort to continue my study in college. I hope I can get the support and help from Blessing Hands to finish my study in college. I will work hard. Please trust me. Now, I really appreciate the support and help from the Blessing Hands during these two years. I believe that if everyone is willing to share love, more and more children will fulfill their dreams. Sincerely, Shen ID: 281 National Score: 337 Major: Chemistry/Environment Zeng's Scholarship Essay This is my application for a Blessing Hands Scholarship for the fall of 2008. I was born into a rural family near Qinzhou. I have a family of five members with less than three mu arable land. We earn merely 2000 yuan ($293 US) a year. Therefore, my mother, though in poor health, has to do small business as a vendor with no fixed income. My father works as an immigrant worker outside, but the factory he works in is often suspended due to various reasons such as lack of raw materials, manufacturing or sales difficulties. His average monthly income is less than 1,000 yuan ($146 US). We are in a poor economic situation, and it is hard to make ends meet. In my family, three of us are in school: my elder brother studies in senior grade three in Qinzhou with excellent grades, and my younger brother studies in an agriculture technical school. This year, my brother is going to enter college. His tuition, room and board and other costs will be at least 10,000 yuan ($1,463 US). If I also enter college, it will cost us at least 7,000 yuan ($1,024 US). Therefore, what my family has earned will definitely not cover what we will spend on our studies. Our family's economic problem is really my serious burden. I am an optimistic person with strong capacities of communication and organization. I have been a class cadre ever since I was in primary school, and I was elected as student union cadre and the school CYL cadre. I am enthusiastic in meaningful social practices. I am eager to enter a university, so I need a scholarship to fulfill my university dream. If I can finish my study in a university, I would like to help others and serve our society with my heart and soul just like others help me. Owing to Blessing Hands, I have gone though my high school study. Thank you very much, and many thanks to Mr. Liu, a teacher of my high school. By the way, I want to major in international trade at Guilin Institute of Technology. Please consider my application for a scholarship. Sincerely yours, Zeng ID: 173 National Score: 287 International Trade Fu's Scholarship Essay My name is Fu. I am a student of diligence and thrift, willing to study hard. Due to your great help, I am preparing to graduate from high school. I believe in the ideals of the University Examination, because I have a belief from childhood that through efforts, we change our fate and change our living conditions. God is fair. I am sure I will be successful, but due to the high cost of the university and the present economic situation in my home, it cannot be paid. I very much hope that you will continue to subsidize me in college. I want to successfully complete my education and achieve my dream. If you help me, I will use my real actions to prove that you made the right decision. Your help is an ideal, resulting in much thanksgiving in the hearts of the students. I will bless the hands of others to convey love to everyone around me, love passed on. Love is the desert oasis of health to bring hope to travelers. Blessing Hands brings us out of darkness to the bright light, who were before in a trip of difficulties without hope. I thank you for the help of the past, and I sincerely hope that you will continue to spread your love, and help me successfully complete the university. Sincerely, Fu Zhenfeng ID: 65 National Test Score: 504 Teacher Some of you might be waiting to see all the essays before you make up your mind. Three are yet to come, but more students may be accepted as the second and third group of colleges send out their acceptance letters. A friend said tonight that he had returned from a trip and was trying to read my 10,000 e-mails. This harvest is only going to last a few weeks, and we must gather up scholarships while the sun shines. Please forgive the many posts. We have many deserving students to feature. As always you can send a check to Blessing Hands, 106 Timber Lane, Morehead, KY 40351 for any amount for any featured student. You can also donate any amount using the Google Checkout button on this page. Betty Cutts Blessing Hands

Yangshuo Scholarships Invest in their Futures August 2008 Yangshuo Students Are Accepted into Colleges Henry Huang's Scholarship Essay My father had a very bad cancer and died two years ago. What he left was borrowed debt from our relatives of about thirty thousand yuan ($4,390 US). My mother, who is a farmer, has never attended school. She is living at home. It is hard to make money. Now my mother is fifty years old and hasn't any ability to earn more money. My home has little hands to work. But my mother spares no effort to earn money by working hard for our tuition and food. She gets up early in the morning and goes to bed late. However, it is not enough effort for our costs in school. What is more, my elder sister is studying in a college where tuition and food are very expensive. Luckily, we are working hard at school. I believe that I will have a good tomorrow. I will help those who need it and let them feel the warmth of the world. Henry Huang ID:494 National Score:480 Major: Mechanical Engineering Wu's Scholarship Essay I am an 18 year old boy. I have been a Blessing Hands student for two years. I was born in a small village of Yangshuo, China. My family members include my mother and sister. Because of disease, my father left us forever two years ago. All my family was lost in sadness, and my family borrowed 20,000 yuan ($2,926 US) for the medical service. My mother is a farmer. She has to do all things since my father left us. We have very few units of farm land. The income is very small. In order to make money, mother works very hard. Every day she set out early and returns late, but we are still unable to afford the cost of a university and we also need to pay back the loan. I thought I could help my mother if I gave up studying, but my mother didn't allow that. She said to me with crying, she doesn't want me to be a farmer like her. She wants me to have a good future by studying in the university. I know mother loves me. I won't let her be disappointed. I must do my best to study, but I really don't want to see my mother worried about me every day. I don't want to see her health broken down for me. So I hope I can get your help, because my mother and my family really need it. Yours, Wu ID: 481 National Score: 482 Major: English Lois Li's Scholarship Essay I'm glad that I have been one of the Blessing Hands' students for one and a half years. I don't know how to thank you enough. When I 'm in trouble, you give me a hand. Now you give me light again. I come from a family which is full of difficulties. There are eight people in it. My great grandma is too old to do housework. My grandpa is ill, and my mother is suffering heart trouble. All of them are in need of medical treatment, which has made the family fall into trouble. What is worse, in order to change our poverty life, my father has had to work hard for my sister and me to accept an education. Tuition and fees are so expensive that our family is in debt to others. Because of little labor, only my father carries the burden which has made him tired out. Little labor and high expenses makes our family's situation worse and worse. I hope to change our life by entering college with your help. Though I have failed last year's entrance examination, I believe that failure is the mother of success. I must make my dream come true this year. I'll never give up or stop searching for knowledge to become the first college student in my family. I can't choose what life I have had, but I must do what I can to get what life I will have. I hope you help me realize my dream. Lois Li ID: 483 National Score: 497 Doctor Janice Li's Scholarship Essay Because I will attend college, so I apply for a scholarship from you. We all know the college tuition is expensive. To my family it's the same, although in my family only I go to school. Yet my family can't afford for me to go to college. My parents are farmers, and we have only a little land. My brother works in Shenzhen, but his wage is less than 100 yuan ($146 US). According to this, only if I apply for a scholarship, can I go to college. In college I will try my best to deserve the scholarship. Thus I can finish my career. If I am awarded this scholarship, I will make sure that the award will be used for the sole purpose of my college tuition. I will value it. At last, I hope I can receive the scholarship. Thank you and best wishes. Yours truly, Janice Li ID: 509 National Score: 469 Major: Computers Amy Xu's Scholarship Essay Three years ago my father left us forever. Mother, brother, and I felt very sad. We didn't know where our tomorrow was. I should go to senior school, but we couldn't pay for the tuition. So I told mother I wanted to go out of school and make money. Mother didn't agree with me. She wanted me to go to school to study more and more knowledge. She said knowledge is power. Knowledge could change fate and give a hand to other people who wanted to go to school. Mother and I worked hard two months. Several uncles gave me their money, so I could go to school and go on studying. My brother was still covered by the compulsory nine year basic education, so his tuition was cheap. Only my mother makes money to pay for our food. It all is not enough usually. My teacher knew my family's situation. She helped me become a Blessing Hands student. I had enough money to pay for food. Thanks very much to Blessing Hands, I could go on studying until now. Now I hope Blessing Hands will help me go to college. I will find a job in my spare time. Finally I want to say "thank you" to Blessing Hands. Yours, Amy Xu ID: 414 National Score: 326 Doctor Testimonial From Ruan I am so moved by that sponsor picked me. Thank you. Thanks Blessing hands....... Betty, now I am in Changchun Taxation College. this is a beautifull college. everything is perfict and fresh. now i am adapting the life of college! thank you for your help! thanks. Ruan Students featured In This Issue Henry Huang Wu Lois Li Janice LI Amy Xu Yangshuo, China These students all live in Yangshuo, China. We have purposed to give each of them $500 for their tuitions for one year. If sponsors want to continue the sponsorship the second year, that is fine too. The students will be encouraged to write to you and do volunteer work to become blessing hands to others as they received a blessing hand. Blessing Hands started when I was teaching in a summer English camp in Yangshuo with Sister Cities of Morehead. Yangshuo is the Sister City of Morehead, KY where we live. Yangshuo is a world class tourist town that is small by Chinese standards. People come from all over the world to see, photograph, write about, paint, and climb the amazing mountains there. . The rural people there are very poor like many areas in inland China. These precious students need your help because their families have fallen on hard times. They work so hard in school. I hope you want to see them pull them- selves out of poverty too. Betty Cutts Blessing Hands 106 Timber Lane Morehead, Kentucky 40351 Blessing Hands 606 784 4785 Testimonial This letter is from Elaine Yeh, who teaches Chinese in Virginia. She has been an enthusiastic giver since she first heard of Blessing Hands. She sends a part of each of her pay checks to Blessing Hands. You can see that we agree that giving has more joy than receiving. The letter may encourage you also. Blessings, Betty Cutts I have promised that I am going to tell everyone about how I feel. Like you say, "giving is such a joy", however, I think it is not only joy, but also I am willing to do this from my heart. I always think a good education can bless children's lives and bring a better future for them. This is not a "one person task". Every time I get my paycheck or I sell my paintings, I have no doubt. I just write a check and mail it. It is a very easy thing, but I always gain so much joy and grateful feelings. The money is not the point of the matter. I want to do this. I will keep doing this for the rest of my life. I want to also thank Betty for setting up this charity. Best Wishes, Elaine Yeh Give to these deserving students by sending a check to: Blessing Hands 106 Timber Lane Morehead, KY 40351 You can also give any amount on our Blog using the Google Check out Button on the right side. They will not charge us a processing fee, so you whole donation will go to Blessing Hands.Just click here to go to the Blog. If you are in another nation write for instructions on how to give to our bank account.

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