Ah Ha!

Visiting the Children of Xichang

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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 ... read more

Asia » China » Sichuan

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more