After nine months of intensive full-time study, the 52 students of the fourth class of the Africa Cries Out Technical School celebrated their graduation in June 2023. The fourth-class students entered the school in the second half of 2022 and chose, according to their own wishes, among the programs it...
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A Parent’s Voice (2): Growing Together with My Child
It has been a year since March of last year, when I first learned about the nonprofit charity Africa Cries Out (https://africacriesout.net/). In that time I have read many of Dr. Jun Xu's articles, and it is hard to put my feelings into words. I had never set foot in...
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UAC Online Event Review: Release Your Shoulders and Neck, Stretch Your Lower Back – Relief for Desk-Bound Workers
Mention shoulder, neck and lower-back pain, frozen shoulder, herniated discs or tendinitis, and anyone who sits at a desk all day has a tale of woe to tell. Some companies have offered ergonomics talks, and we now understand how poor posture and intense, repetitive or long-held fixed positions relate to...
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UAC Online Event Review: How to Shake Off Negative Emotions – An Introduction to Re-evaluation Counseling (Co-Counseling)
In our fast-paced lives we face countless challenges and inevitably run into setbacks. The negative emotions they bring can stifle our ability to think, even lead us to act irrationally, and when they build up over time they can harm our physical health. Clearly, we should free ourselves from negative...
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UAC Online Event Review: How to Build Children’s Core 21st-Century Skills – Critical and Independent Thinking
Advances in technology will replace many jobs and create many new ones we can hardly imagine today. Rapid social change puts people under more mental stress and strains close relationships. Adults' problems often spill over into parenting, so many children feel stress and anxiety more easily from a young age…
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UAC Online Event Review: Africa Cries Out, Part 3 – What Became of the Young People Who Went to Africa with Us?
Introduction: "Dad, I will never, ever, ever complain again." That is what Dr. Jun Xu's son told him on a flight home from Africa.
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UAC Online Event Preview: How to Build Children’s Core 21st-Century Skills – Critical and Independent Thinking
Do you also feel that competition in the 21st century keeps getting fiercer? Advances in technology will replace many jobs and create many new ones we can hardly imagine today. Rapid social change puts people under more mental stress and strains close relationships. Adults' problems often spill over into parenting,...
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UAC Online Event Review: The Coronavirus and Vaccines
Two years of fighting the pandemic have taught us a lot. Over the past two years, everyone's life has been hugely affected, and fighting COVID has become part of our social and family life. Thanks to the development and use of COVID vaccines and antiviral drugs, life is gradually returning...
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UAC Online Event Review: Nanjing Sunshine Heart to Heart Foundation – Shuwen Xu and Jin Zhang
When our guest Zhang Jin introduced himself – "My current occupation is partner at China's largest management consulting firm, but that is just my job. My calling is the Sunshine Heart to Heart Foundation I'm sharing with you today" – I'm sure many in the audience lit up, sensing that...
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Youth Mental Health Crisis: Dr. Chaosong Wang
At 9 pm Eastern on Friday, July 30, Professor Chaosong Wang joined UAC's online event series for "Youth Mental Health Crisis", sharing with us what a mental health crisis in adolescents looks like and how to prevent it.
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11 Years Caring for China’s Sick and Disabled Orphans: Ellie Ball
If you read our previous post, you probably know that Ellie Ball is an extraordinary woman who devoted 11 years of her youth to volunteering in China, treating and caring for orphans with disabilities and illnesses. While working in China she met her like-minded partner, Gao Chunlai, and they married...
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UAC Online Event Preview: The Beauty of Dunhuang’s Flying Apsaras
Dunhuang is where Eastern and Western cultures met, and its flying apsaras (feitian) are a product of that blending of Chinese and Western art. Dunhuang has more than 4,500 apsara figures – in sheer number, variety of types and clarity of their evolution, no other cultural heritage site in the...
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Helpless in Quarantine
I hadn't seen my eldest son, my daughter-in-law and my grandson for two years. My eldest son had lived and worked in Hong Kong for many years and had just been transferred to Singapore. I got my first Moderna shot in early February and my second at the end of...
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Loving is Caring Review and Outlook
UAC continues to care for the elderly in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, most vulnerable and emotionally impacted by the COVID-19 epidemic. On Easter in April 2021, UAC will send love bags with holiday greetings to the elderly and their caretakers of the Bedford Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation...
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Online Event Preview: Let’s Talk About Vaccines with Dr. Yuhong Xu
At 9 pm Eastern on Saturday, April 3, Dr. Yuhong Xu joins UAC's online event series for "Let's Talk About Vaccines", sharing what we know about COVID-19 vaccines and answering your questions. Dr. Xu graduated from the English-language medical program at Xiangya School of Medicine, earned a master's degree in...
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Heavenly Road of Life: Dr. Jun Xu of Africa Cries Out
For years, Dr. Jun Xu and his team at Africa Cries Out have carried out charitable work in remote leprosy villages in Senegal, West Africa. Since 2013 he has traveled many times to this isolated place to treat the sick and injured, helping to set up a medical clinic and...
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The Elderly Neighbor and His Family’s 300-Year-Old Tree
Before we knew it, the COVID-19 pandemic had been going on for almost a year. Nobody goes out much, and we rarely meet up to chat. I especially wonder about the elderly neighbors in our community – people we got to know walking the dog, selling Girl Scout cookies or...
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Loving is Caring: February 2021
UAC Heroes' "Loving is Caring" campaign for the elderly continues in 2021. On February 12, 2021, UAC distributed 50 love bags in communities in Westchester County, New York; on February 15, UAC delivered 150 love bags to Golden Eagle Adult Day Care Center in Flushing, New York; and on February...
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Little Chestnut Who Loves to Laugh, and the Kind-Hearted Children from China
Alongside the love bags delivered in our Loving is Caring campaign, UAC volunteers also passed on Chinese greetings and English letters from children in Shanghai and Kunming, hoping the seniors would feel the warmth sent from China. The greetings and letters came from children aged 10 to 16 in Shanghai...
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Global Thinking, Local Action: Ms. Yong Rong
Ms. Yong Rong works full time in the nonprofit sector and is Director of Policy and Public Affairs for East Asia at the international environmental organization Greenpeace. She leads Greenpeace's strategy for establishing and growing itself locally in mainland China, founded its policy and external relations department, and helped it...
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The Last Call for Love in 2020: Wrap-Up
UAC Heroes' "Loving is Caring" campaign – the last call for love in 2020 – is coming to a close. Following the love bags for St. Cabrini Nursing Home and Sprain Brook Manor Rehab in Westchester County, UAC has delivered 425 holiday love bags to Cliffside Rehabilitation & Residential Health...
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Loving is Caring: Campaign Update
UAC Heroes' "Loving is Caring" campaign for the elderly continues. Following the love bags for St. Cabrini Nursing Home and Sprain Brook Manor Rehab in Westchester County (shown in the video above), UAC plans to deliver 425 holiday love bags before New Year's Day to the 175 residents and 250...
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The Last Call for Love in 2020
Before the most important holiday of this extraordinary year of 2020, will you join us in brightening the holidays for our seniors? 2020 is drawing to a close, but the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the US shows no sign of stopping. In nursing homes and other long-term care facilities –...
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Thanksgiving Series: Love Bag Campaign
UAC continues to care for one of the groups hit hardest by COVID-19: seniors in nursing homes. For Thanksgiving, UAC delivered a total of 205 love bags to Sprain Brook Manor nursing home in Westchester County, New York – 80 for the staff and 125 for the residents.
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Love Bag Campaign Wrap-Up
Cabrini nursing home in Dobbs Ferry, New York, is a large facility with 304 beds. During the pandemic, to keep the virus out, it restricted residents' outdoor activities and visits from family and friends, leaving the seniors alone in their rooms for long stretches. Even in July and August, when...
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Love Bag Campaign Progress
UAC's Love Bag campaign is under way. Two young volunteers have delivered 100 love-filled bags to the night-shift staff at Cabrini nursing home, and another 250 bags are being prepared for Cabrini's residents. Here are photos from preparing and delivering the bags. This week we also received 274 hand-drawn love...
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Love Bag Campaign: Calling All Young Artists
We warmly invite your children to cheer on the seniors. Kids can get creative and encourage them with a drawing or a letter. Young artists can take a photo with their artwork and email it to help@uac-heroes.org. We plan to put the photos together into a digital album and send...
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Love Bag Campaign
Sending love and care to nursing home seniors! Current donation goal: we need $2,500 to send love bags to the 175 residents and 250 staff members of Cliffside nursing home in New York. Little gifts of love: KN95 masks, hand sanitizer, healthy snacks, small toys to beat boredom, and hand-drawn...
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