Monday, December 22, 2008

There are also NGOs in China, not just companies trying to make money

Since I can't fill up all my time with babysitting the construction workers at my parents apt, shopping for unimaginable amount of building materials big and small, trying to find some friends and hang out with them (quite hard when one lives so far and doesn't work), and of course drowning myself in the internet, I found a couple of NGOs (not for profit organizations) to volunteer at.

Is a NGO started by an university student who learned about AIDS orphans in Henan. A province south of Yellow River. Apperantly this is a rather poor province, in the late 90s, lots of people sold blood to state hospitals to make money, and the blood weren't checked before given to patients who needed blood transfusion, the consequences you can imagine. The founder started first an orphan school in Henan, but was shot down several times by the state and finally he couldn't continue the school in Henan.
So he came back to Beijing and started 东珍(Dongzhen) to educate young people on HIV/AIDS.

Here is a postcard (what does it remind you of?), that I have helped to pass out on the streets. It was the first time for me to hand out stuff on the streets.

Here is a market shopping bag by the NGO as well. There are quite some creative people here in China!

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