Have you ever joined in a Beach Run before?  At a Shenzhen Beach in Summer, well, this is what comes to your mind -  Hot, hot, hot!  Even still, this was not a deterrent to determined Shenzhen runners.  20 plus runners got up at 5:45am, put on their runners and a few other accessories, and did it for Captivating!  Thanks to...

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Lusheng is a reed pipe wind instrument which is popular with the Miao minority, Dong ethnic groups in southwestern China.  Play and dance using this instrument is one of the Miao nationality traditional culture activities and has been done for more than two thousand years.  As more and more of the Miao young people leave their home villages to go...

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(Emily is 10 years old and lives on the Gold Coast, Australia). Two days ago which was on a Sunday, Aunty Julie, Uncle Andrew and Tyler took my mum, brother Matt and I to Project Eden in Dongguan, China.  We traveled by van and took us one hour and a half to get there from Shenzhen. When...

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March 20 was World Oral Health Day and to celebrate the importance of good oral hygiene, 7 of our Seng Girls were hosted by Dr Zac Morse and his Dental team at Shenzhen's Dental Bauhinia www.dentalbauhinia.com. For the past six months, Zac and his incredible team have offered their services free...

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Captivating's village development project (in partnership with Heifer International China) has had a busy past few months. New villagers from stage 2 of the Daxi Village implementation plan (village # 1) received their gift animals from Captivating and along with it have been working hard to bend their minds around the new breeding methods. Breaking old traditions is not easy. Being accustomed to...

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Fortunately this year’s winter has been a little less severe than normal. Not so much snow has fallen and there have been fewer major disturbances or upheavals in the town. Consequently, yak dung prices dropped and so we stocked up on extra fuel (used mostly for cooking and some heating) - see picture 1.  It's possible it may snow more...

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The beginning of the year has already seen lots of work and play at Eden. We started the year off by replacing the sink in the girls' kitchen and installing a water heater so they can wash dishes in hot water! They were very excited about that improvement, since we had a couple weeks of pretty chilly weather when everybody...

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(Jordan Dotson shares his thoughts on his first visit to the Seng Girls Home) Qinghai is a strange place, an unsettling place. If anything it's an ecstatic place, yet not in the diluted, everyday form of the word that makes you think wildlycrazyhappy (though that's entirely true as well). It's ecstatic in a literary sense – a...

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What was the village like? The village was nothing I had ever seen before.  There were chickens, pigs, and lots of dogs and cats.  I didn’t touch them though. The village people lived in really dirty houses.  It was a very rainy day when I went to...

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As one of our key supporters in Shenzhen, QSI (Quality School International)...

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