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Sunday, October 04, 2015
School Supplies Surprise Students
Yao Minority Schools Receive School Supplies
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.
My home has four mouths to feed. My grandmother is aging and my father's body is ill. Each operation can't completely clear the gallstones in his body. For two years he has had expensive operations that take him from our family for a long time. He also has to take medication regularly and always has a high fever. He frightened us to death in the middle of the night. It was really terrible. My mother's body is not good either. She picks fruit for a living, but she cannot earn much. She is very diligent to help the family eat.
Since I have graduated from high school and want to go to college my family's pressure has increased. To be honest, I have thought that I would not study but work to make their lives not as hard. It is my parent's heart to send me to school, however. Thank you for helping my family for 10 years. You made our winter family warm.
Zhang Gongwen
Mike Writes about Being Chen Jiqing's Sponsor
Mike Rayburn
I was thinking after I emailed you --- what an opportunity for someone like me, with not that much money, to perhaps be instrumental in helping someone become a doctor--- with all that might lead to in the future! I hope she'll be successful... and I can't really promise right now, but I'll tell you now that if I possibly can do it, I would be happy to help Chen Jiqing every time she has a need until she can graduate.
I wish there were some way to persuade more people to contribute to Blessing Hands. I can't imagine being involved in this process and not having the desire to continue. Knowing something of the kids, the schools, their families, makes it so personal that it feels so much better to me than donating to organizations that I'm sure use the money for good purposes---but in a way that leaves me just having to trust that somehow they are using my contribution for the benefit of those who need it --- and sometimes wondering if maybe there is a lot of waste or corruption that is eating up what should be going to those in need. With Blessing Hands, I know where the money goes---and I can have a real sense of how important --- perhaps essential --- even my small contribution is to someone whose life might be forced onto a completely different path without having that opportunity to go on to school and a brighter future.
I'm thrilled that you are there -- for me to have the opportunity to help kids in China who I could never find on my own.
Mike Rayburn
It is sponsors like Mike who have given scholarships to Chen Jialing and Zeng Aihua, who were featured in our last newsletter. It is indeed more fun to give than to receive.
Like Mike, you can change Zhang's life and the lives of many primary students.
Zhang Gongwen in 2006. Now she wants to be a primary teacher.
Betty Cutts with Zhang Gongwen
Gongwen has been one of our students for 10 years. She has worked hard to help herself and others. Please help her finish two years at the Teacher Institute of Guilin Normal College and become a primary teacher. She needs $650 s year. That is just $54 a month with an automatic bill pay from your bank.
