With American Thanksgiving just past, Christmas will be here before you know it. Instead of running around the Chinese countryside like crazy trying to find that perfect vintage Mao poster to mail home as a Christmas gift, consider donating to a China-focused charity on your loved one's behalf this year.
Here are some charities that are doing great work here in China that you should check out.
1. Angel Mom Foun…
A little PSA for all our friends in Beijing. If you're into art, or would just like to help a good cause, find a dry pair of shoes and head down to 798 to check out this event.
UPDATE: Please note that due to the weather, the event has been postponed until this Saturday, July 28th, between 2:30pm and 5.30pm.
The Giving Wings to Children’s Art Charity Auction hosted by Yuanfen~Flow in conjunction with Alpha Partne…
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I am Little Wolf, though some of you that have been around for awhile might remember me as Lang-Lang from the old Sinocidal crew. Ryan has been kind enough to allow me to hijack his blog in order to help a little girl.
Perhaps many of you are already aware of the plight of Lili, the so-called “Guizhou furry girl”. Some weeks ago, Chinasmack.com posted her story and many readers w…
It's already mid-December and although we live in China, Christmas decorations have gone up around town and the local Carrefour and RT-Mart are playing Christmas music. Christmas is a time when many people like to give gifts to friends and family, but for expats in China it can be difficult to send gifts to whatever country (or countries!) our friends and families are living in. If you haven't sent those gifts month…
The fine folks over at the Shanghaiist have put together an absolutely insane* charity event to raise money for health kits for children in rural Yunnan. The talented people at Fly Films helped them put together the following ad for the event:
"What's this awesome event for?"
We're providing health kits for rural children in Yunnan Province. Proper hygiene ensures that children can spend less time sick at ho…
It's hard to believe it's already been a year since tragedy struck Sichuan -- killing nearly 90,000 people and displacing millions.
And while time can't pass fast enough in putting that horrible day firmly behind us all, today is a good day to remember that its survivors are still in need.
Working hard to remind us all of this is a fantastic new project by folk artist Abigail Washburn and Dave Liang of the Shan…
In typical "me" fashion, I'm figuring out my Mother's Day gifts at the very last minute. Being that I'm nearly 12,000km from my mom doesn't make it any easier. My standard go-to is FTD.com where I can browse through a few dozen flower arrangements, settle on something I think is pretty and says "mom" and order everything online. But this year something stopped me.
I sat there on the check-out screen looking at…
Wokai, or "I start", is a new(ish) Web site offering microfinancing to China's poor.
There are few things that make me tingle like the principle of microfinancing does. I'd like to think I have a philanthropist's heart (if not the wallet), and as much as I believe "give it and forget it" charities unarguably do amazing things for this world, microfinancing is just way cooler than traditional charity models.
It …
Hong Kong-based photographer, and sometimes LLW blogger, Derrick Chang is on a mission to keep Sichuan warm this winter.
Though the region is usually most associated with hot and steamy bamboo forests, when the winter months hit, much of Sichuan is very cold and rainy - a fact that is no doubt looming on the minds of the many left homeless by the May 12 earthquake.
To help with this, Derrick has decided to spen…
Last summer acclaimed documentary filmmaker Tan Siok Siok headed out into the streets of Beijing with a rather ambitious goal of capturing the essence of the city and its people the summer before the Olympics.
The result is Boomtown Beijing, a film that paints a picture of not just a city or the sporting event that it will play host to - but rather how a singular event has inspired people to do what in the past wa…
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