Fron Lucy at SQR central:
Small update on what’s been going on lately.
The weekend before last SQR sent out six foreign volunteer teachers (from: USA, Indonesia, Germany and Singapore). I brought four of
them up to two schools in Qingchuan on Sunday where we like the time before were warmly welcomed and invited to stay the night (what we did since the drive there takes about 5 hours). Those four volunteers are back to Chengdu by now and I’m soon getting some of their pictures to upload on our wp. All of them had a very positive experience and the principles and teachers were very satisfied as well, not to forget the kids who went completely crazy for their “laowai laoshi”.The other two SQR volunteers went to Pengzhou (they were accompanied by Annie, a HK volunteer who has helped us out before) and are still teaching in the schools. Their calls sounded as positive as the ones from the Qingchuan bunch.
John Cafasso, a hobby photographer, contacted me some time ago. His photos are being exhibited in Portsmouth at the moment and are up for sale (all the profits will go to SQR). He is also sending Mark and me a CD with all his photos and we are free to use them for any fundraising project we have in mind (which would be the postcards).
On Thursday last week SQR held another NGO meeting (topic: health care, hygiene, etc.). The attending NGOs weren’t as numerous but the feedback was very positive and we plan to hold another meeting with the topic of reconstruction soon.
Jenny from The Library Project contacted me today. They have funding for two small libraries for two of our schools (one in Tumen and one in
Qingchuan). They will send all the books asap and I will bring them to the schools as soon as they arrive here.
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