2013-05-30

2013 CinA in Hefei

Greeting from Taiwan after long time. I just came back from China. I was with the Chinese in Action program.
Chinese in Action started in April this year. My parents the same full time participated. My brother, Yue and I were kind of support from outside. I was helping with the administration work and went to join the team in China for around two weeks. And then I will wait for the team to come to Taiwan for the second outreach in July and August.
In the first CinA I went to the city Hefei for my outreach. We spent around two weeks and by the end of the outreach I got a chance to meet a lady who was interested in psychology and was feeling depress and low in her life. I couldn’t spend much time with her because the group was moving to the next city after few days. But the lady came to our place every day and shared with me a lot of her difficult. After CinA I was back in Taiwan we still talk on the internet quite often, I even sent some books for her to read. I was trying to give her some support from Taiwan so that she can have strength to face her life.
This time I took the team to the same city to do our outreach. The lady developed herself quite well and now she had form a learning group, there are around 30 people and they met every two week to study and grow together. When we arrived in Hefei train station she asked one of her friends came to pick us and took us to the place we stay. Time in Hefei because of her, our transportation was been looking after and all the meals we had was pay by her and her friends. This time I can see she had more strength in her life and even can influence the people around her. She said she was really grateful for my support. Because her parents and only sister now staying in the USA, when she faced difficulties most of the time she felt along and helpless. But by me sending books to her, sharing with her and sometimes chat through internet, she felt there was a support.
By her and her friends, our group in Hefei was busy. The first day as soon as we arrived they took us for a big dinner. The second day we visited a NGO that set up by some disabled people to help with the Autism kids. Afternoon we went to the library to meet more disabled people and thinking what kind of serves we can do for them. After we finish there was a friend came to pick us and right away we been took into a radio recording place for an interview recorded which will play on air every Monday talking about family relationships. Just in a week we had spent most of our meal time doing one to one with different people. We had finished two times one day sensitivity workshop and four public speeches.
I feel comfortable doing one to one talk and the sensitivity workshop. With the public speech I still had some fear. Small number was fine but this time there were two public speeches around 100 people. And one of it was a speech to the government leaders.             

I try my best. Not all the speeches went really well but the government one was good. When we finished the speech there were a lot of people came to us asking questions and inviting us to do workshop in their department. I slow can see CinA making some impact inside China.
So now I am back to Taiwan back to my work.
H.Y



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