Visiting the Children of Xichang
November 15th 2009 When I arrived in Shanghai, I wondered how I would meaningfully fill my time. I struggled with this the first 1 ½ years, but finally settled into volunteering with a very worthy cause, the Charles Foundation (www.charlesfoundation.org). In 2001, Josephine Charles, a British woman working as a counselor at a medical clinic in Beijing, travelled to the rural mountainous area of southern Sichuan P
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