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I’m currently in former Summer Volunteer Program 2007 site Guozhuang in Shandong delivering computer literacy training to the villagers here. The weather now is most definitely not Summery, but the eagerness of the students to learn warms my heart. A lot of the groundwork has been laid by new RCEF intern Guibin Fan (a former [...]

Over 300 million Chinese citizens are smokers. According to a study reported in the British Medical Journal, 75% of Chinese men smoke and nearly 50% of them will die from smoking-related illnesses if present smoking levels remain unchanged. The problem is especially pronounced in rural areas. According to Professor Teh-wei Hu at the University of [...]

This weekend, I went with a group of Japanese and Chinese activists to a county in northern Shanxi that was a stronghold of the Japanese army during World War 2. We visited village girls, wives, and mothers who had been raped by Japanese soldiers. The girls are old women now. Every year more pass away, [...]

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When I first arrived at Guan Ai, I was pleasantly surprised by the number of books in the library. In addition to the hundreds of books for students, there is also a significant collection of books on education and teaching methods. This year, I’ll be reading and reviewing these books and others to hopefully spark [...]

Recently many of you on our mailing lists will have got invitations seemingly from RCEF personnel inviting you to join social networking site Goodreads. Whilst the site does offer a legitimate service, their methods of finding new users can only be classified as spam. Allow me to explain. One of our core members within RCEF [...]

On August 24th, a new school term started at Guan Ai Elementary School. The textbooks didn’t arrive in time, so we spent the first week doing a public survey for our health education. The study was carried out over four days: on the first day, we went to the village to examine the problems of [...]

Don’t you hate it when you forget to check the blog for a while and then come back and find you’re completely out of the RCEF loop? Well, no need to fret! From now on you can get the RCEF blog delivered right to your inbox! Check it out: How did we do this magic [...]

Good news! We are pleased to announce that RCEF will receive a $25,000 grant from the Tiger Woods Foundation, which supports organizations focused on youth education and character development. Since 1996, TWF has positively affected the lives of an estimated 10 million young people and dispersed more than $30 million to communities nationwide through direct [...]

RCEF’s rural teacher training was held at the Desheng PingminSchool (德胜平民学校), a rural elementary school in Xiuning County, Anhui Province. “Pingmin” means “Common People.” When picking the location for the training, we looked for an innovative school that could be a source of inspiration and new ideas. The Pingmin School is quite well known for [...]