Below is a video from one of Half the Sky’s fundraisers, where Steven Levitt, coauthor of the books Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics, talks about his personal experience adopting one of his daughters from China. It’s about fifteen minutes long, so you’ll want to give yourself some time to watch it. I, too, have personally seen the [...]

Yes, another film. This is one created by the husband of Jenny Bowen (of Half the Sky fame). It will be premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend. It’s a telling of the Cinderella Story, the Chinese version that is much older than our fairy tale version. It has a mainland Chinese Cast, [...]

Half the Sky has an opportunity to get some funding from American Express, but they need our help. Funding received will go towards helping the child earthquake victims by funding four children’s recovery centers for two years. But they’ve got to be in the top 25 in order for that to happen. If you’d like [...]

So far we’ve got three agencies saying the cut-off was the 20th and two agencies saying the cut-off was the 22nd. I’m not changing the box until this clears up a bit more. Half the Sky has a new earthquake update. I can’t even begin to summarize it, you’ll just have to go read it [...]

Monday morning, May 19th: HTS reports that Mianyang has become a major refugee center. There are more than 20,000 refugees in the city’s stadium. They are told (but have not confirmed) that the entire center area of the stadium is reserved for toddlers and infants. HTS has someone headed there now so they should know [...]

As I reported yesterday, HTS (Half the Sky) reports that they have had contact with the Chengdu, Chongqing and Yibin orphanages and that all is well. The children were all evacuated until the tremors passed, the buildings suffered no great damage, and no children were injured. This morning they note that the children have once [...]