Shekou International School’s Winter Bazaar is an important annual event, it provides significant help to communities in need.  It was held at December 10^th, 2012 at the mountainside of Jinshan Villas in Shekou, Shenzhen, China. It was a beautiful, sunny, winter day.  The bazaar showcased delicious foods from around the world. There were home-made goodies from over fifteen...

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PRESS RELEASE:  FUTIAN Shangri-La, Shenzhen brought the international sport of stair climbing to Shenzhen once again with its second vertical charity race Saturday. Designed to encourage getting exercise, the event raised funds to provide educational support to impoverished students in Captivating International's Seng Girls’ Vocational Training School and Home (SGVTS).  Participants experienced a test of endurance, strength and mental fortitude —...

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I first learned about the Seng Girls’ Home in 2009 when my good friend Lynn Velez told me she was working with our friends Julie and Andrew Colquhoun from Captivating and planning a charity auction to benefit the home.  I was taken by how the home got started.  A man (Dockpo) and his family had opened their home to these disadvantaged...

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Since 2008, Captivating has started sapling projects in three villages of Sichuan and Gansu province.Recent inspection of our second village – Qingchuan County, Sichuan – showed better than expected results. We are excited about this wonderful progress. In this village, 107 families received a total of 13,000 high quality grafted walnut trees planted in March 2009. Results show that more than 85%...

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We overlooked posting this story last year.  Early in 2011, everyone at Project Eden was delighted to have 70 Lychee Trees donated to them by the local landlord. About 30 of these trees were expected to bear fruit in late June/early July. To help generate income for Eden, we offered the trees for individual tree sponsorship and were thrilled with the response...

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This awesome event directly benefits the work of Captivating International - specifically Project Eden in Guangdong Province. It is doubling in size each year thanks to the amazing work of Greg and his team. An incredible RMB113,000 (US$17k) was raised. For more details, go to www.szrace.com http://animoto.com/play/...

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On Sat 17^th September Treasures of Hope celebrated their 2^nd anniversary and invited customers, volunteers and charities to join them in their celebration. Treasures of Hope is a unique store that opened in Dongguan, Guangdong province in 2009. All the proceeds from the store benefit three local charities; Handa, True Children’s Home and Captivating International. Each...

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The Parents and children were thrilled at the arrival of their new, 2yr old van two months ago. Thanks to the very generous donations from two of our sponsors, we were able to buy a very good quality second-hand van. Its had plenty of use already; transporting household goods, bringing children for medical check ups and one of the parents...

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If you were in the area of Lian Hua Shan park at 10.30pm Saturday night, then you would have seen a large number of energetic people in beautifully designed blue T-shirts warming up for the 3^rd Annual Midnight Charity race. The idea of the race is for runners to get...

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