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The Second Sichuan Earthquake, April 21, 2013

An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck south-western Sichuan, China on April 21, 2013 and the number of victims is rising. Already, almost 200 people have been killed and many more are still missing. About 6,700 people are injured and the conditions are grim. Hauntingly enough, Sichuan is exactly the place where the 2008 Great Sichuan Earthquake occurred five years ago, which measured 8.0 on the Richter scale.

A Month for Making a Difference April 20 - May 20

Global Youth Service Day, April 26-28, 2013
Global Youth Service Day is an annual campaign that celebrates and mobilizes the millions of children and youth who improve their communities each day of the year through service and service-learning. Please see link next for more information: http://www.gysd.org/

Child Hunger Initiative

Child Hunger Initiative - Food Drive, March 18th – April 30th

We're part of the GenerationOn's initiative "What Will You Bring to The Table" to donate 1 million meals to hungry kids.

Almost 17 million kids in the United States experience hunger at some point each year. That's more than the combined populations of New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

What We Do

We help disaster victims to recover and engage youth to help others in need.

Helping Haiti

November 19, 2011

Books for Haiti School Children:
Beginning in 2010, NPR Planet Money Team has run a series of programs through its podcast about building a school in Haiti

Workshops

We Care Act is developing curricula for a myriad of workshops, notably for English workshops for students and have been affected by disasters or poverty, in order to improve their mastery of the language; additionally, We Care Act provides workshops focused on leadership and other beneficial faculties.

In the summer of 2012, We Care Act co-founder and president Sharon Li traveled to Changsha, Hunan and Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China and conducted a series of 4 English workshops to elementary, high school, and college students. She created a simple book MY LIFE IN AMERICA as her teaching material and it is well liked by the students and teachers. When she visited a village in Changting, Changsha, the students and teachers especially loved her leading them read the book to feel the native sound of English, because the English teacher in the village would like her students to feel how beautiful the language is when speaking properly since she herself did not obtain training in English but in Chinese. In addition, Sharon created newsletters for higher level students and exchanged ideas with them and also introduced We Care Act and servicing learning to the students and teachers she met. Through the workshops, she met students and started to mentor them through digital communications and created a mentoring program to connect students in China and in the US

Between July 26 and 28, 2010 We Care Act held its first English workshop at Qingcheng Mountain High School in Dujiangyan, Sichuan, China. During this workshop, twenty-three students from the Dujiangyan area participated in English writing, communication, and word game activities. The workshop participants each wrote, revised, and polished a story about their experience during the earthquake; these stories are in the process of being assembled and finalized into a newsletter. A panel discussion between students of two different cultures was also held, each culture fielding questions from the other and vice versa. This exchange helped greatly narrow the culture gap between the two groups. Most importantly, the workshop encouraged the formation of friendships between the two cultural groups.

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