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Yubeng Primary School: Update from Sunshine

April 26, 2010 in Culture, On the Road, environment by Alex G | No comments

In late March, WildChina founder Mei Zhang blogged
about colleague Sunshine’s trip to and future work with an elementary school in Yubeng, a Tibetan village in Yunnan province.

Recently, Sunshine gave us an update on the status of WildChina’s aid to Yubeng.

The valley near Yubeng Village

“The books on plants and stones have been just sent out. Thanks to [WildChina colleague] Li Ling’s help, the teachers and kids will have books to learn about different kinds of fish, amphibians, and invertebrates. [WildChina colleague] Catherine also helped to get stone samples – this is wonderful for the kids to tell different stones apart.”

WildChina looks forward to continued support of schools like Yubeng Primary School.

WildChina’s Community Service Day at Bethel: Our Day in Photos

February 10, 2010 in On the Road, environment by Alex G | No comments

Last Friday, as we wrote about on this blog, WildChina spent the day at Bethel, an education and training center for blind childen in Hebei province. We cleaned up and prepared the foundation of a greenhouse to be constructed this year, and met some of the people behind this great organization in the process.

We invite you to peruse our Flickr photostream and take a look at our 2010 Off-Site photo album. Here we feature a behind-the-scenes look at Bethel, our work on the greenhouse, some of Bethel’s ‘main characters,’ and a couple new furry friends we made along the way.

Have questions about our trip to Bethel? We’d love to hear from you. Send Alex an email at alex.grieves@wildchina.com.

WildChina’s Community Service Off-Site at Bethel

February 1, 2010 in In the News, On the Road by Alex G | No comments

This Friday, February 5, will not be a regular work day for those of us at WildChina.

At the end of this week, we will be involved in our company annual off-site day. However, while in past years we have had company-wide meetings and events, we have changed our plan for this year.

Our new associates Derek, Cameron, Echo and Haiying have organized a day of service for WildChina at Bethel, “a not-for-profit organization that provides foster care, education and professional training for Chinese orphans who are blind or visually impaired.”

On Friday, we will be working at the foundation, located just outside of Beijing, to aid the orphans in constructing a greenhouse.

We are really looking forward to helping such a great organization that combines care and education for orphans with the ideas of sustainable community and environmental protection.

Stay tuned for a blog post on how our day of service went!