EGRC
4290 Dunbar St.
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6S 2E9
Tel 604-732-6778
Fax 604-732-6898
info@egrc.ca
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"Educated women have educated children."
A message from the Founder Tien Ching:
EGRC has gone through an amazing year with some successful events and my annual trip to Gansu, China went well.
This year there are 185 girls who received our sponsorship including 46 new students. The exciting news is that the EGRC Student Association was established this August. The purpose of this Association is to enhance the communication between sponsored students. The leaders and some senior students have taken on responsibilities such as home visits, collecting transcripts, providing support and counseling to new students.
Three of the senior students traveled with me to different places in Gansu to meet all the girls. Jia Liyan and Zhang Fang Fang gave a report on their trip to Vancouver; Wang Bixia – the first president of the EGRC Student Association explained to the new sponsored girls about EGRC and got to know all the girls and appointing branch leaders. Watching them working and communicating with enthusiasm I was very impressed.
I wish to thank all of you who have supported the BC Society for Educating Girls of Rural China. Your generosity has made this program a great success in such a short time.
As a teenager, I lived in Gansu province and witnessed extreme poverty. After moving to Canada 26 years ago, and experiencing a society of abundance in all areas, I wanted to give something back to my Mother country. For me, one of the best gifts I think we can offer the next generation is to empower young women with an education.
I travel to Gansu every August to interview each applicant; get to know them, their family situation and their dreams. I personally give the funds to each girl.
As a follow-up I also visit the universities where present sponsored students are studying. It is a tremendous challenge for these village girls to not only survive, but do well in these modern Chinese educational environments. I am very proud to announce that all of them are doing well and some have achieved very high academic excellence. There has also been a wonderful “domino” effect – where all present sponsored girls have expressed the desire to help other girls in achieving a similar education.
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