David Curll Chartered Accountants - Vancouver, Canada
Partners:
After six years of operation, one of EGRC’s new fundraising
goals is to seek partnerships with local schools, women’s
organizations and Canadian businesses that have operations in
China. EGRC’s first two partnerships are with Chloe
Angus Design and Elektra Women’s Choir.
Chloe Angus Design is planning a runway-style fashion show in
the fall to raise funds for EGRC. The date will be September 22, 2011 and will take place at Performance Works on Granville Island in support of EGRC. For more details, please see our fundraising page. Thank you to
www.chloeangus.com.
The Elektra Women's Choir will present a concert on October
2nd 2011 at St. Mary’s Anglican Church in Kerrisdale in support of
EGRC. http://www.elektra.ca/.
Supporters:
David Mulroney - The Canadian Ambassador to China, and the staff from
Canadian Embassy in Beijing raised funds for EGRC at the
Embassy Christmas Party.
I met Cindy Jensen of BoldMovesChina in Beijing earlier this year. Cindy has been living in Beijing for 11 years with her family and running a consulting company based in China.
Cindy and I discussed the challenges and needs of our girls in finding work after graduation. After she met a group of them in August, she decided to offer a workshop teaching essential skills such as communication,
professionalism and networking. I know it would help the students greatly in today’s competitive job market.
The workshop was held on the 12th of November. Cindy and three other senior presenters led the workshop, 29 girls attended. Some of them had to travel by train for more than 20 hours, but it was all worth it.
By the end of the day even through we were all exhausted, no one wanted to leave including the presenters! They were all impressed by the girls and told me the EGRC girls were the most enthusiastic attendees they
have ever had.
The Book Club
In Vancouver a local women’s book club has raised $1100 with
each member donating $100 to support one student as a group.
Jenny Li is a young professional who works at Price Waterhouse. She and her collegues have raised $1000 to support one student.
Dr. Jan Walls, Professor Emeritus in Humanities, Simon Fraser University, former Cultural Attache to China.
Your (Tien Ching) kind of personalized, local-to-local, non-religious, non-governmental, non-business development aid is so much more authentic than the “big players"
Canadian pianist Jane Coop and George Laverock (founder of the Festival Vancouver) met Zhang Yunxia, one of the sponsored students in Shanghai Conservatory, February 2009.
Roger Boshier, Professor of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Roger Boshier has taught in Chinese universities and is helping authorities there build a “learning society in China.
From his speech at Youth for Youth concert May 6th, 2009
“Among poor families scarce resources are focussed on boys. Girls are often shunted into the background through no fault of their own. Or they are kept home to work land or mind younger siblings"
“The education of girls is one of the top UN Millenium goals."
“The Educating Girls of Rural China project is a marvellous demonstration of what it means to be Canadian at the dawn of the 21st century."
This project is an example of person-to-person diplomacy and donors can be absolutely certain their contributions go to the education of girls.?It reinforces the Canadian reputation for kindness and generosity. It is a testament to what can be achieved when people of goodwill work together."
Kirk Tougas is an important figure in Canadian documentary Film making industry. As a director of documentary film photography he has traveled to many countries and made over 200 documentary films.
"Despite all the time and effort it must take to assist all the women in your project, I can understand your enthusiasm. How rare to have such a direct influence on so many lives!
Your project embodies very Canadian values -- the education and equality of women - and projects these values from here out into the world."
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David Mulroney - The Canadian Ambassador to China, and the staff from
Canadian Embassy in Beijing raised funds for EGRC at the
Embassy Christmas Party. 
I met Cindy Jensen of 
Canadian pianist Jane Coop and George Laverock (founder of the Festival Vancouver) met Zhang Yunxia, one of the sponsored students in Shanghai Conservatory, February 2009.