Three seventh grade students at Milwaukee Jewish Day School, Elliana, Noa, and Shayna, made a wonderful presentation about Half the Sky at their school. So wonderful they won first prize!
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Last summer, Half the Sky received extraordinary, one-time permission from the China Center for Adoption Affairs to help find "forever families" for three special little girls with heart conditions too complex to be treated in China. We are thrilled to report that all three of the girls, LiuFang, CaiPing and ZiJun, have now found their true homes.. Here are the heartwarming first reports from their proud parents...
On Friday 30 October 2009, the Beijing Office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partnered with Half the Sky to stage Freshfields Community Challenge day. Seventeen Freshfields staff accompanied children and caregivers from Half the Sky's Children’s Center in Tianjin for a visit to Beijing's iconic Olympic Park.
Unsurprisingly, Eric Tam, our Social Networking Volunteer extraordinaire, discovered Half the Sky online where he spends many hours of his day both at work and at home.
Half the Sky has received extraordinary, one-time permission from the China Center for Adoption Affairs to help find the "forever families" for these three special little girls.
We’re lucky to have a growing family of creative volunteers around the world dedicated to helping China’s orphans. In China, while volunteers can’t yet raise funds to support HTS programs, they can volunteer their time.
For one San Francisco Bay Area family, fundraising for Half the Sky started with Richard Bowen’s book, Mei Mei, Little Sister: Portraits from a Chinese Orphanage.
It started off with a couple of “overworked bankers” at HSBC’s Hong Kong office, who wanted to “run for fun, run for fitness and run for good causes.” That small group grew into the “Global Runners", three teams of runner-fundraisers who completed the Shanghai Half Marathon last November.
“What’s your favorite color?”
“Yellow,” answers the 11-year-old girl calmly sipping a yogurt snack in a classroom at her “tent school” in Dujiangyan, Sichuan.
I loved working as a nanny because I spent so much time with the babies. But my job as a field supervisor is also gratifying because I can help other women to do this important work.