China California Heart Watch and Village Progress Partner Project: Back to...
Story originally published on GoKunming.Over the past six years, we've done motorcycle trips across western Sichuan, in Xinjiang's Altai Mountains, to the Dulong River Valley, around the Cangshan...
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Organic Coffee in Bangdong
On a recent visit to Bangdong, I met up with the chair of the Lincang Bangdong Cloudland Coffee Cooperative. Zhuhong is a young man who left Bangdong at the age of 14, and after an assortment of jobs...
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A Tale of Two Stoves
Zhenglong Gasifying Stove Rocket Stove On a recent trip to Bangdong, we brought five gasifying stoves to be tested alongside the Rocket Stove that we brought over in May. This time, the cost of the...
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Village Progress Heart and Art
(Story by Patrick Scally originally published in GoKunming)Today GoKunming traveled to a northern Kunming school with 15 volunteers. We spent the day giving art lessons to 400 elementary and middle...
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Photos of Migrant School Health and Art Education Project (November, 2013)
With the help of some local art teachers, volunteers and some close friends, last week Village Progress was able to work with 350 migrant school children on some simple art and health projects. The...
View ArticleSalvador's Employee & Family Photos
Though Salvador's Coffee House is no longer directly affiated with Village Progress, VP was founded in order to apply the principles of the Salvador's business model for the benefit of the villages...
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Volunteering as a Teacher in a rural Chinese elementary School
(Article originally published on Dalibar)At the end of September a group of seven students from Princeton University’s China Bridge Year Program arrived in the remote village of Bangdong, perched on...
View ArticleSalvador's Employee & Family Photos
Though Salvador's Coffee House is no longer directly affiated with Village Progress, VP was founded in order to apply the principles of the Salvador's business model for the benefit of the villages...
View ArticleChina California Heart Watch and Village Progress Partner Project: Back to...
Story originally published on GoKunming.Over the past six years, we've done motorcycle trips across western Sichuan, in Xinjiang's Altai Mountains, to the Dulong River Valley, around the Cangshan...
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Organic Coffee in Bangdong
On a recent visit to Bangdong, I met up with the chair of the Lincang Bangdong Cloudland Coffee Cooperative. Zhuhong is a young man who left Bangdong at the age of 14, and after an assortment of jobs...
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A Tale of Two Stoves
Zhenglong Gasifying Stove Rocket Stove On a recent trip to Bangdong, we brought five gasifying stoves to be tested alongside the Rocket Stove that we brought over in May. This time, the cost of the...
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Village Progress Heart and Art
(Story by Patrick Scally originally published in GoKunming)Today GoKunming traveled to a northern Kunming school with 15 volunteers. We spent the day giving art lessons to 400 elementary and middle...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Photos of Migrant School Health and Art Education Project (November, 2013)
With the help of some local art teachers, volunteers and some close friends, last week Village Progress was able to work with 350 migrant school children on some simple art and health projects. The...
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Volunteering as a Teacher in a rural Chinese elementary School
(Article originally published on Dalibar)At the end of September a group of seven students from Princeton University’s China Bridge Year Program arrived in the remote village of Bangdong, perched on...
View ArticleKunming Television Broadcast
Learn more about us from a local news broadcast...http://v.qq.com/page/f/4/a/f0133vlgi4a.html
View ArticleSights and Sounds from the Countryside - Bangdong Homestay
Introduction For almost three weeks I stayed with a local family in a small hillside village in Bangdong. I lived with three people, who I called Ayi (auntie), Shushu (uncle), and Gege (elder...
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Puppet Making in Yanhuang Elementary School
Last week Village Progress ran an art and English program for students at Yanhuang Elementary School, a private school in Kunming that serves students from a broad range of the socioeconomic spectrum....
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Experiential Learning for Underprivileged Kids
A wide body of scholarly research has documented the benefits to children of experiential learning, especially to their confidence, self-esteem and leadership abilities. Examples of experiential...
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2015 China Outdoor Sports Calendar
Celebrate the passing of another year with this 2015 wall calendar featuring outdoor sports athletes from all around China in some of the most beautiful parts of the country... and beyond. All profits...
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Rock Climbing with kids from Yanhuang School
We spent a great afternoon with students from a migrant school in Kunming, Yanhuang school, participating in fun, physically challenging activities! Village Progress is working together with The Nature...
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