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Tuesday
Feb052013

Bridges of Friendship

Nature sometimes has a funny way of working in with our plans! In late 2012 International Christian Assemblies (ICA) and Christian Action organized a carnival which we called One People One City.

Our aim was to raise funds so that we could build bridges of friendship with the people of Tin Shui Wai. But on the day we almost needed more solid bridges than that!

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Tuesday
Apr132010

The World's Most Valuable Software

Our wonderful Special-Education Trainer Cindy Pearson in action at the Xining Children's Rehabilitation Center

When guests from Europe and elsewhere visit the Multi-Sensory room in the Children's Rehabilitation Centre in Xining they say they have never seen anything like it. But Anthony Charter, our Chairman, says, "It's easy to pat ourselves on the back when we look at the hardware we've invested in, but now we need the software so that we can inspire others to empower disabled children." What is this 'software' he's talking about?

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Tuesday
Apr062010

How can parents simply abandon a child?

A frame from last week's video on beautiful Fei Fei and her heroic foster mother.

How can parents simply abandon a child?

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Tuesday
Feb092010

Communist Party Secretary Tells Qinghai Media to Report on Christian Action's Good Work

Yes!!! The Secretary of the Qinghai Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Mr Qiang Wei, prompted national media coverage of Christian Action's work! How did that happen? And why is it so important?

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Monday
Nov162009

Hybrids and Humanitarian Organizations - Part 2

Security Guard trainees learn the ins-and-outs of using an industrial fire extinguisher.Last week I wrote that you'd be hard pressed to believe Hong Kong was ever host to tens of thousands of Vietnamese refugees as new construction has now erased almost all evidence of  the camps.  Yet if you were to have told me back then that Christian Action would grow from being a purely local humanitarian organization into one Hong Kong's most cutting edge Training Bodies I would have laughed silly!

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