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      Sometimes you find the most interesting things while cleaning a middle school. Check out this beauty from the insect world — scarab beetle. One less insect for the dorm rooms!

    We are hiking Jighonshan today with a group of Americans who have gathered in Lijiazhai to help staff an English Camp for 350 children over the next 5 weeks. These camps are sponsored by China Service Ventures (www.chinaserviceventures.org) and run by Mei Wen, Inc.  (a social enterprise organization) in Henan, China. They focus on serving children at risk from rural villages with economic hardships and absent parents.

    Today we went to distribute Bo Ai (Boundless Love) scholarship money to qualified students attending the No. 2 High School in Xinyang, Henan, China.   The students are “stay behind” children, a government designation, to indicate children who have one or both parents working in other cities. These children tend to be poor with little resources available to them. No. 2 High School is also a boarding school for about 9000… Read More