Built with Love and Hope

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Surely some of the most moving and joyful moments of Half the Sky’s early days occurred on our orphanage volunteer builds. The first was in summer of 2000 and, like all things in China, final official approvals came just a few weeks before we’d need to start work on the…

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Springtime and Chunhui

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Across Asia, as the Lunar New Year holiday draws near, in even the poorest families debts are paid, floors are swept, homes are scrubbed top to bottom and filled with flowers, fruit and candies. Children too are scrubbed clean and adorned in bright new clothes. Everyone is ready for a…

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On Thanksgiving

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At this time of celebration and thanks, I figured this would be a good moment to share some of the many hundreds of notes of thanks I received in response to my “Long Goodbye”. But as I read them, I became even more aware that these thanks are really not…

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