By educating girls, a charity changes lives in rural China
Published Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011 6:32PM EST
Raising the money for a university education, Tien Ching gives the young women of Gansu province an opportunity she could only dream of
As student-council representatives from high schools across Vancouver munch on pizza, Tien Ching is explaining the plight of girls in rural China. “They are almost like your age,” she tells the group at Vancouver School Board headquarters. “Graduating from high school and being accepted to universities, but they are financially not able to do so.”
It’s the next speaker who really drives the point home.
In not quite perfect English, Bixia Wang, 25, recounts her life in Gansu province. She was a bright student, with an aptitude for science and ambitions to study chemistry. But her mother was ill in hospital, and her father made very little money hauling concrete. Her little brother was disabled, likely the result of malnutrition. “My family couldn’t afford my education,” she says.
You can hear a pin drop in the room now; the pizza, forgotten.
Then, Ms. Wang met Ms. Ching, whose organization – the British Columbia Society for Educating Girls of Rural China – helped pay Ms. Wang’s way through university.
“This program changed my life,” she tells the Vancouver students. They burst into applause.
Ms. Wang is one of 286 Chinese girls who have been sponsored by Ms. Ching’s charity, and the first to continue on to graduate studies in Canada. In September, she began her master’s degree in chemistry at Simon Fraser University – on a scholarship.
“It was she who inspired me,” Ms. Wang says about Ms. Ching.
Since its establishment in 2005, the charity has sponsored about 40 girls a year, giving them the money to pay for university. There are currently 170 sponsored students attending 92 universities, with 116 graduating since 2009. Close to 20 of those women have gone onto grad school.
Ms. Ching got the idea for the program in 2003 at a Vancouver Children’s Choir fundraiser for Unicef’s Go Girls! initiative educating girls in Africa. Ms. Ching recalls a Unicef representative onstage saying: “‘We believe if a mother is educated, her children will be educated.’ I thought: That’s so true.”
Ms. Ching did not go to university herself. She was on her way, attending one of the best girls schools in Beijing. But the Cultural Revolution meant jail for her politically outspoken father, while she and her mother – a physician – were sent away to Gansu: wild and remote, in the northwest. At 17, Ms. Ching began what would be eight years of work at a fertilizer factory.
In 1983, she managed to emigrate to Canada. She did not return to Gansu until the spring of 2005, when she visited schools and families as she established her charity. Over the next few months she raised $27,000 – enough to begin sending girls to school that September. The charity now raises about $130,000 to $150,000 each year, mostly through private donations.
Each year, Ms. Ching travels to Gansu to interview prospective students. Those approved receive $500 to $1000 a month on average over the course of their undergraduate education.
Ms. Wang recalls being nervous about her interview with Ms. Ching and relieved afterward. “She told me: ‘Don’t worry about the financial. We are going to support you,’” she remembers. “It was just like light in the dark.”
In Gansu, Ms. Ching also meets with every returning student and even some graduates. The senior students help, making some of the introductory visits to the often remote homes of prospective students – literally climbing mountains at times to do so.
Graduates have become teachers, engineers, journalists.
“This really is satisfaction to see so many other women getting this opportunity I dreamed of when I was young,” says Ms. Ching.
Now she is turning her sights to high school, noting that only 40 per cent of Grade 9 students in rural China continue on to Grade 10 (when it begins to cost money) – and that girls are more likely to drop out than boys. Ms. Ching hopes to launch a high-school program in 2012, her fundraising efforts targeting Canadian companies that operate in China. She’s also looking for support from Lower Mainland high schools; perhaps a twinning program that will see students raise money, but also correspond with their Chinese counterparts. Because, while this is mostly about money, it’s also about making a connection, and offering encouragement.
“Her help is not only financial assistance,” Ms. Wang says, struggling with her English – and her emotions. “This program has changed my life and it will change my children’s life.” She pauses. “And my children’s children’s life.”
An interesting article from the Edmonton journal:
Rona Ambrose and Rosemary McCarney
Earlier this month, thanks to determined Canadian leadership, the United Nations General Assembly designated Oct. 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child.
In creating a day to celebrate and acknowledge girls, the UN is putting its weight and influence behind global efforts to raise awareness of girls’ rights and shine a spotlight on areas where those rights are routinely violated.
The message is simple: girls’ rights are human rights; the sooner in life girls know their rights, the greater the chance they will be able to exercise them.
The statistics are grim, leaving little room for doubt on why an international day to focus on girls’ issues is significant and necessary.
Girls are three times more likely to be malnourished than boys, because in many parts of the world where food is scarce, girls eat last. Of the world’s 130 million out-of-school youth, 70 per cent are girls. Sex-selection feticide denies millions of girls the right to be born merely because they are girls. Others are forced into early marriage and pregnancy. Medical complications from pregnancy are the leading cause of death among girls aged 15 to 19 worldwide.
Even here in Canada our concern over the emerging issues of “honour” killings and harmful cultural practices, and violence against young and adult women, confirm the serious need to address girls’ rights on a global scale.
Besides troubling statistics, it has at the same time been proven that investing in girls boosts prosperity. By investing in girls we can support a generation of women -— mothers, workers and leaders — to improve the lives of everyone around them and to help break the cycle of poverty across communities and entire nations.
The Economist recently said “Forget China, India and the Internet. Economic growth is driven by women.” On this basis, we were compelled, and proud, to be part of a Canadian delegation who introduced the resolution for an International Day of the Girl Child to the UN General Assembly and argued passionately for its adoption.
All federal political parties have been enthusiastic in their support: the motion to put the resolution forward passed unanimously in the House of Commons earlier this year as a result of efforts by a grassroots movement convinced that ordinary Canadians can indeed bring about change on the world stage.
Fifteen thousand Canadian girls and boys, men and women signed an online petition. More than 600 joined the letter-writing campaign to advocate for the day. More than a dozen Canadian community organizations took up the cause.
Many of those who were most instrumental in promoting a Day of the Girl were young girls themselves.
The tipping point came during the 55th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York last year, where we had the great privilege of watching 12 girls from Plan International’s speakers bureau — including some from Canada — make the case for paying greater attention to girls’ rights.
These highly articulate young people spoke confidently to the high-level representatives in attendance about the impact of violence and discrimination on their lives and what must be done to end it.
While the girls’ stories were heartbreaking, the girls themselves were inspiring. It was extraordinary to watch them interacting with heads of state, hosting their own breakout session, helping draft language for a UN statement of accountability.
We were proud and touched by their determination when they made a formal request for the Government of Canada to take international leadership and move the Day of the Girl proposal through the UN.
Such a day, they said, would make girls feel respected, recognized and valued, where today they feel marginalized. They said it would give them a once-a-year opportunity to hold their governments to account — to report progress on key issues and call for action. They said they would hold rallies and conferences to educate everyone — especially girls — on girls’ rights. A UN-endorsed Day of the Girl, they said, could attract media attention and make their voices louder.
We are thrilled these 12 girls were so determined, that the Canadian government was able to achieve so much momentum within the UN and that the UN General Assembly agreed to the proposal.
Many girls who helped make this day possible are also thrilled, such as Saba Ghahari, 19, one of the Canadian girl delegates who actively campaigned for the day.
“On each Day of the Girl,” she says, “I hope we will see steps toward progress in our world. Steps away from discrimination, seclusion and global poverty. I really do believe this day will be the key to positive change and equality.”
We look forward to marking the very first International Day of the Girl Child on Oct. 11, 2012, and to our continued work with girls to inspire and shape real, tangible progress on issues that affect girls both in Canada and around the world.
Rona Ambrose is an Edmonton MP and federal minister for the status of women. Rosemary McCarney is president of Plan Canada
by Al Campbell
VANCOUVER, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) — Vancouverites got the opportunity to hear about the plight of female students from rural areas of northwestern China’s Gansu province on Sunday afternoon when a benefit concert was held to raise money for their university tuition.
Since 2005, the British Columbia Society for Educating Girls of Rural China (EGRC) has raised about 400,000 Canadian dollars (380,709 U.S. dollars) through private donations and corporate sponsors to help fund the university education of 286 students.
So far, the program, which provides 6,000 RMB (952 dollars) to each recipient, around half of their annual tuition, has produced 116 graduates since 2009.
Tien Ching, a Beijing native who came to Vancouver in 1983, founded the program after putting her own children through university in Canada. The single mother believes such a program is necessary “as education is a powerful tool that changes lives.”
Currently, the EGRC is supporting 170 students attending 96 universities in more than 20 different cities around China. More than half are studying sciences or engineering.
Tien’s knowledge of the northwestern province comes firsthand as she lived in Gansu starting from the early 1970s when her doctor mother was sent there during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). The move also meant abandoning her own education as she went to work in a factory for eight years.
At the time, the young Tien said she would often accompany her mother on visits around the province’s rural areas and see the poverty. It wasn’t uncommon to see village girls engaged at as young as eight, and married at 13.
“Most of the students, the young women I’m sponsoring now, their mothers are usually in their forties but they have never been to school,” she said. “Education, I think, is the key to changing a person, a family and even a society, especially educating women. We believe if a woman is educated her children will be educated.”
As the owner of a commercial art gallery, Tien said the initial donors to the program were local Canadians who she met through her work, as well as Hong Kong immigrants. Last year, she got her first corporate donor when Eldorado Gold, a Canadian mining company with operations in China, came aboard.
“I think this is the way to go in corporate sponsorships with Canadian businesses operating in China. My target next year is 200,000 dollars. Last year, David Mulroney, the Canadian ambassador in China, hosted a private lunch (for the EGRC) and invited businessmen from the private sector, government officials and journalists to let people know about our work and that really got things going.”
Among those in attendance at Sunday’s benefit concert that featured a finale of the largely Western ensemble singing two selections by Chinese composer Wang Ning, was a Chinese post-graduate student Wang Bixia.
The native of Longxi County, Gansu, is the first student in the EGRC program to come to Canada to continue her study. She is now studying at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University toward her master’s degree in material chemistry.
“It’s changed my life because if I was not supported by this charity now I should be someone’s wife, or one or two children’s mother, stay in Gansu in the fields. But now I am here in Canada.”
With the program helping her to get her first degree in chemistry from Shaanxi Normal University in Xi’an, the capital of Gansu’s neighboring Shaanxi province, Wang said her long-term goal is to work toward her doctorate, which requires another five years of study in total.
She explained the program will help lift her family out of poverty as her father is a construction site worker earning merely 1,000 RMB (159 dollars) a month, while her mother is ill and her brother disabled.
“My tuition was about 6,000 yuan (952 dollars) and I couldn’t have attended university without (the EGRC’s) help,” Wang said. “It’s wonderful. For me it’s an exciting experience. I experienced most first times here. The first time to take a plane, the first time to go to Beijing, the first time to eat Western food and go sailing here. Wonderful!”
Tien adds it isn’t the goal of the program to bring more students over to Canada, instead it is a chance for all the donors over the years to see where their support has been going.
“Also for the girls, I encourage them to dream big. You know, to come to Canada or go to any other countries to pursue a higher education is not just what their studying, but also to give them a broader idea and inspiration about the world beyond China.”
Editor: Deng Shasha
Simon Fraser University News – Wang Bixia – first EGRC to study in Canada
Bixia Wang’s journey to graduate school is filled with firsts. She’s the first from her family — and her village — to graduate from university.
Her path wasn’t easy. When she was accepted to Shaanxi Normal University, her mother was hospitalized and her construction worker father brought home $200 per month, carrying 20 kilogram cement sacks all day and earning 90 cents per tonne carried.
She couldn’t afford to pay her tuition, but a fortuitous connection was made for her with Vancouver philanthropist Tien Ching, the founder and president of the BC Society for Educating Girls of Rural China (EGRC). The charity is only six years old but in that short time, it’s helped 286 young women from impoverished rural areas of Gansu Province in Northwest China to receive university educations.
More firsts: Bixia is the first president of the EGRC Student Association and the first of the sponsored young women to go on to a graduate degree. Because of her hard work as an undergraduate (including a paper published in Sensors and Actuators B), she received funding and admission offers from SFU and the University of Alberta. She’s chosen to study in Dr. Zuo-Guang Ye’s lab and continue her research in SFU’s Department of Chemistry.
Other firsts have followed quickly. In the last two weeks, she’s experienced her first journey by plane, her first sight of an ocean and first time to try sailing, and a first time to eat western foods.
She adds, “I like this city and this university — the blue sky, the clear air, the quiet environment and pleasant people. Ms. Tien has collected some furniture for me and I have settled down in the campus residence. I have confidence that I will have a happy life and can make new friends here. And I can help Ms. Tien as much as possible. I am excited.”
We’re delighted to welcome her to Simon Fraser University and we’re looking forward to seeing many more firsts for her in the future.
Interview with Radio Canada International (in Mandarin)
On May 27, 2011 Bill Schiller wrote this article about EGRC that was published in the Toronto Star.
HUINING COUNTY, CHINA—Outside, a sandstorm is raging, sending towering gusts of grit howling across one of China’s bleakest landscapes.
But inside a local high school, you can hear a pin drop.
Schoolgirls have gathered silently around a table, keen to tell a Canadian woman about their hopes and dreams. These girls don’t know it yet, but this moment could change their lives.
Tien Ching, a retired Vancouver businesswoman, is here looking for girls from Gansu province — one of China’s poorest — who need help to get to college.
It’s a mission that has brought her here, to the edge of the Gobi Desert, every year for the last seven — to listen, assess and assist.
“I want to become a doctor,” 17-year-old Chen Tingyan says haltingly, teetering at the table, choking back tears.
“I watched my mother die of stomach cancer right before my eyes and I wanted to help — but couldn’t.
“The day she died, I made up my mind: even though I couldn’t help my mom, I would help others.”
As young Chen takes her seat, a respectful silence hangs in the air, broken only by a growing chorus of intermittent sniffles.
Tien Ching takes it all in. She utters some soothing words to Chen — the way a loving mother would — makes a few notes, then asks others to share their stories.
“I am not rich,” Tien explains to the girls later. “I can’t build schools. But I do know that I can help some of you. I can’t say how many. But I can promise you this: I will be back.”
Through her single-handed fund-raising, Tien and her donors have helped more than 250 girls get a university education.
It’s the manifestation of Tien Ching’s own dream denied: Although born in Beijing, a capital of learning, Tien never got a university degree. She was thwarted by the Cultural Revolution, a turbulent 10 years in the ’60s and ’70s that closed universities when she should have been studying.
Instead, she accompanied her doctor mother to Gansu and worked in a fertilizer factory for eight years. It was a bitter experience.
She eventually immigrated to Canada where, one evening in Vancouver in 2004 while watching her daughter perform in a choir at a UNICEF benefit, she was seized by an idea.
At concert’s end, an organizer stepped to the stage to explain that the proceeds would go to the “Go Girls” campaign to help young African women go to school. “The idea was that educated women will have educated children,” says Tien. “And for me — that was it.”
Her imagination immediately catapulted her back to her days in Gansu, to the dusty, barren landscape of Longxi County, carved by centuries of harsh winds. Since then she has been helping change lives, one girl at a time.
Her B.C. Society for Educating Girls of Rural China started with just $27,000 in 2005. Last year it raised more than $100,000.
The sums are not enormous. But Tien, who once ran a Vancouver art gallery and framing company, says “you don’t need a lot of money to make a big difference here.”
While media have made much of China’s meteoric rise to become the world’s second-biggest economy, when stretched out over 1.3 billion people, the people’s purchasing power is still thin. International Money Fund figures show that China’s GDP per capita stands at about $7,500 per year, far behind the world average of $10,900 and leagues behind Canada’s $39,000.
Here in Huining it’s thinner still: last year the county’s GDP per capita was just under $400 — on par with the West African country of Liberia.
More than 90 per cent of locals here scratch out an existence from the soil, many living in homes made of mud and clay.
And at Huining County Ganguo Middle School — where dormitories house 52 girls to a room in a space suitable for 25 — nearly 1,000 students survive on between 30 and 60 cents of food per day, according to figures provided by local school board officials.
“Here in Gansu,” says Tien, “there is still a need.”
Tien is the only full-time staffer of Educating Girls of Rural China. She takes a personal interest in every individual student.
She instils in them the bedrock belief that “education is the path out of poverty,” and that “the best way to help your families is to get a good education.”
Twenty-four-year-old Wang Bixia, from Longxi County’s Qujiaping village (pop. 400) has embraced that philosophy.
Her 49-year-old construction worker father hauls 20-kilgoram sacks of cement on his back all day, earning just 90 cents for every tonne he carries.
Tien’s charity paid for half of Wang’s four-year, $3,000 tuition at Shaanxi Normal University, where she graduated in 2010 with a degree in chemistry.
In tiny Qujiaping village, Wang is regarded as part myth, part miracle: until Wang did it, no one there had ever graduated from college.
“My mother told me, ‘Even though I, as your birth mother, cannot help you, I’m happy that another mother can,’” says Wang.
In rural China, philanthropy remains a mystery to many. Wang says people in her village were certain Tien Ching was very rich. “Then when they learned that she wasn’t, they asked me, ‘So how can a person like this exist?’”
Wang is now poised to become the first graduate of Tien’s program to win a scholarship abroad. She is currently weighing offers from both the University of Alberta and B.C.’s Simon Fraser University.
Another beneficiary of the program, 22-year-old Mo Yan, has been accepted to do graduate work in biology at both Shanghai’s prestigious Fudan University and Beijing’s Tsinghua.
“The program isn’t really about producing ‘stars’ — people who go to top universities or a university in Canada,” Tien emphasizes.
“Giving someone the opportunity to go from junior high to senior high, from Grade 9 to Grade 10, can make a huge difference in an individual girl’s life.”
At a recent reunion of beneficiaries of Tien’s program in the Gansu capital of Lanzhou, Wang Ting, currently in her third year of geography at Northwest Normal University, stressed that it was far more than financial support that the program offered.
Born of loving but illiterate parents who have never left their home village of Zhong Hepu, Wang Ting said she wants to become a university professor.
“When I was first selected to be part of this program, of course I was grateful for the financial support. But there was something more: a recognition that I mattered; a feeling of warmth.
“That’s something I want to pass on to others.”
Q&A with Tien Ching, founder of EGRC
We get questions periodically from our supporters and friends about the girls we sponsor, their lives and our goals for the charity. The only person capable of answering these questions is the charity’s founder, Tien Ching. We posed some questions to her we thought may need clarity and specification for our followers. Our hope is that this helps gain some insight into the lives of the people we help, and also some insight into the charity itself. The following is an excerpt of an interview with Tien Ching:
Sarah: Can you explain your reasons your charity focuses strictly on the education of women?
Tien: Women are the centre of the family and have the most influence on the next generation. If a woman is educated her children will be educated. I believe educating women is the key to make a better family, a better village, and even a better society. In China and many other developing countries traditionally women were considered second class citizens. Some girls were even being killed before or after birth. In these cultures and countries it is more important to emphasize women’s education.
Sarah: What has been the highlight in your work so far?
Tien: The highlight of my work is the time when I meet the sponsored students in Gansu every August. This is when I can observe that they have gained self-confidence and achieved their goals in school and in life.
Sarah: What is the educational experience like for a girl in Gansu Province leading up to post-secondary education?
Tien: None of the girls from rural villages of Gansu have the opportunity to attend pre-school or kindergarten. Grade one starts at age 7. By law today all children finish grade 9 and it is free of charge.
Most (roughly 90 %) of the rural children (boys and girls) finish elementary school; and 70% – 80% finish grade 9. I assume the 10% and 20% are mostly girls or families in desperate situations. They often need their children to work in order to survive. Please note: only 50% – 55% grade 9 graduates go to high school in the rural areas of Gansu.
In all rural areas – from middle school to high school it is a huge hurdle for families with limited financial resources. I did a survey recently: a typical rural high school student cost is about $800 a year; this amount is equivalent to half year living costs for a family of four. All high schools are situated in towns (or small cities) and students from rural areas have to pay for board & room as well. Families are facing choices of either letting their children drop out of school or getting loans from local cooperative banks, fellow villagers or relatives. It makes it’s twice as difficult if a family has two children in high school at the same time.
Also getting accepted by good high schools is particularly competitive. I believe there are a large number of students who won’t go to high school either due to lack of financial resources or cannot pass the entrance exams.
It is common for girls to be asked to quit school and find work to support her brother’s education. Some people in rural regions of Gansu still don’t believe the girls should receive as good of an education as the boys do.
Sarah: What does life offer an uneducated woman in Gansu province?
Tien: As I mentioned in the previous paragraph, most of the girls in rural areas of Gansu – at least for the last five years – will go to school and large numbers of them will finish grade 9. With a grade 9 education the girls have two choices: factory worker in a city far from home in Southeast China, earning a very small salary (high suicide rate for youth); or marry under age of 20 to be a farmer and house wife, repeating her mother’s life. I discovered that more than 80% travel to other parts of the country and work in the factories.
Sarah: Does having a university degree offer the woman as much employability as it does her male counterpart?
Tien: Being a female undergraduate student is a disadvantage compared to her male peers. Many emails I have received from the sponsored students inform me that it is harder for them to find work than the boys. Some businesses openly declare “[we] don’t hire females”.
Sarah: Is the growing economic strength of the Chinese economy a help or a hinderance for girls in Gansu province? Must they leave the area to find employment with a degree?
Tien: The economic development gap between Gansu Province and other regions in East and South China is quite big. Gansu and the Northwest of China is about 20 years behind. Most of the sponsored students who trained to be teachers and government employees generally found employment in Gansu, even though it may take a long time and many tries. Those trained in many other professions usually go to other places to find work.
Sarah: Do you have any goals to spread your charity work further around China or neighbouring countries??
Tien: Over the past 6 years our work is focused on three regions of Gansu Province due to limited funding. Now and in the future we are seeking corporate donations (Canadian companies who are operating in China), and partnerships to establish the same or similar programs in other provinces of China and other developing nations.
Sarah: Do you see the educational equality gap narrowing in China?
Tien: I would say yes to this question; but the journey will be long and slow to narrow the gap. In educational field today we may not see the gender discrimination, but in certain job fields there is definitely discrimination towards women.
I discussed this with a sponsored student yesterday on the phone and she recalled her own experience from elementary school up to grade 9. Every new school year started she noticed there were a few girls missing from the previous year; they dropped out.
The percentage between males and females in classes, the higher grade it goes less girls are attending. She said that the girls have to have better performances academically than the boys in order to get the parents’ support to continue education.
Even today married young couples in rural areas have more than two or three children. If a boy is not born they will continue to have more. The government will give rewards in cash if a couple have had two daughters and decided not to have more children.
In general the situation is much better compared to 30 years ago when I was there with my mother. At that time the village girls did not go to school at all. They usually became engaged at age 8 or 9 and married at age 13 or 14. The mothers of my sponsored girls are usually in their 40’s and some of them have never been to school and some had elementary school education only.
I’d like to thank Tien Ching for her time and detailed responses. We now have a much clearer picture of our students, their struggle to continue their education and what it’s like to live in Gansu. It seems like there is a long road to educational and employment equality, and that EGRC will continue to be there to help pave it.
WELCOME!
Our focus will be to provide you with pertinent news and updates, and also to give you a personal insight into the people behind EGRC and the girls we help.
Over the past few months there has been some changes in terms of EGRC, our founder Tien Ching has recently retired from 20 years at Omega Gallery and will be focusing solely on her charity work. This has been a big step in her life and we congratulate her on her accomplishments thus far, and hope she enjoys the transition into the next part of her life.
As a charity that has a focus to educate women, we obviously spent the 100th anniversary of Women’s Day (March 8th 2011) reflecting on women’s issues near and far. One story of particular interest to us was featured on the CBC Radio show “The Current”. It documented the heart-wrenching choice mothers who conceived girls made in accordance to the countries one-child policy. We ask you to follow this link and listen to the very informative documentary. CHINESE MOTHERS
Last but not least, we just emailed out our current newsletter. It contains all of our updates upcoming event info. If you’d like receive this in your inbox, just go to the following link and help our network grow!
Article – Trip to China August 2010 – by Kate Wong
The primary reason for this trip was of course, to visit the girls sponsored by Educating Girls of Rural China. My mother has been traveling to Gansu, China since EGRC’s commencement in 2005 to personally deliver raised funds and to visit with the students. And since 2005 I had never once been back with her on this journey. When she asked me at the beginning of this year to accompany her I agreed without hesitation and also with absolutely no knowledge of the extent of the adventures that lay ahead for me. I finished my school year off at McGill University almost forgetting about the big trip. The summer flew by and suddenly I found myself at the end of July and needing to pack and prepare. I flew out on August 2nd from the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Airport and arrived in Vancouver. On August 6th we boarded a plane at the Vancouver International Airport and were on our way to China.
Dim Sum Lunch
Don’t forget about our latest fundraising effort happening on April 29th. It’s our annual Dim-Sum lunch and last years event was incredibly successful.
Hope to see everyone there!
