Helping China’s vulnerable
In South West China, mountains make it difficult for some to earn regular income. We routinely partner with the Chinese Relief and Development Foundation, an NGO helping disaster victims, people in medical need, the elderly, families struggling with poverty and ‘left behind children’ whose parents have moved long distances to other parts of China for employment, leaving the kids in the care of grandparents or institutions. With the constant drain on their resources, they have received donations of 1,694 pairs of shoes, 15,000 pieces of babies and children’s clothes, 15,466 pieces of adult clothing, along with a range of equipment and accessories. This group has networking throughout the local area and beyond: assisting people whom we, ourselves, could never reach. We help others help others.

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