The 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai, China (April 14th, 2010) has touched the hearts of people around the world. Yushu is located on on the Tibetan plateau, China's remote area. In the sparsely populated villages and the larger town of Gyegu, thousands of wood-earth buildings collapsed and many larger structured heavily damaged or destroyed. The region is difficult to reach for the response teams of the Chinese government outside aid groups - lying at an elevation of 3,700m (12,000 ft) and connected by few roads, most of which were damaged in the quake.

We Care Act designed wristbands for its fundraising activities to help the victims in Yushu, Qinghai.

Youth from China, Canada, and the US worked together for these activities.

We Care Act is working with One Earth Designs (www.oneearthdesigns.org) to fund selected projects to help the earthquake victims in Yushu.

Almost all the students and faculty in Qingcheng Mountain High School generously donated to help the earthquake victims in Yushu, as a way to pay back the society which has been helping them since the May 12, 2008 earthquake affecting their lives forever.

中国青海玉树在4月14日遭受了7.1级的大地震,山河改观,死伤无数,中国人民真是受了太多的苦,汶川大地震的阴影才刚从我们的心理散去,可是天灾又降临了,我真的很伤心,可是我又能做些什么呢?学校的孩子们和老师们主动地捐款,希望能尽我们的微薄之力,我们在受灾的时候得到了大家的关爱,理应汇报大爱.
现在全中国都在为灾区祈福. 玉树地区是特别不发达的,那里大多数是藏民区,城市的房子百分之80都塌了,玉树位于高海拔地区,这就个给救援工作带来了许多不便...
玉树地震后,学校组织学生和教职员工捐款,据我了解一共是三万左右.都江堰整个城市都在进行募捐活动.募捐所得的款项和物资都会通过政府和红十字会等慈善机构送往灾区. --Li Linxiao

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Our world is a violent one. Full of chaos, full of disaster. And I had almost begun to believe that we could live through it. The Sichuan earthquake, Hurricane Ike, the earthquake in Haiti…I had thought we could survive. I’d never imagined another disaster could follow the last. But it did.

Our world is a changing one. Nothing remains the same. So what made me think that this would? What made me think that our work was over, that nothing else would happen? That we were safe.

Our world is an imperfect one. There are catastrophes every day, and eventually, they begin to blur together. But they’re never forgotten. Each number on an ever-rising death toll is not merely a digit, but a life—now gone forever. How can we live through something like this?
Hope.

Our world is a compassionate one. Disasters happen. But so do miracles, and, to live through things like this, we have to believe. We have to believe that more change will come, and for the good this time. Because we can hope, and we will hope. And that hope leads to movement, to the drive, the need, to help and to make a difference in the world.

So what are we waiting for?

--Grace Li, April 16, 2010