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Welcome to the Global Compassion Project Blogger! For now we are still working on the actual personal domain website for GCP, so until then, this blog will be our main "Website"

Here we will be posting updates and announcements, so check back regularly!
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A group picture of the 2007 group with the check that we was donated to create a library with 2000 books that we all donated.

I start off by first saying THANKYOU to all those that did attend the first day meeting! You guys are awesome!

For the rest of you guys who were not able to attend the meeting (which is understandable since it was a Monday and this was a short noticed meeting), what you guys missed out on was:
1.a formal introduction of the Global Compassion Project
2. You get one hour of community service for attending our meetings! (However you must remember to sign in!)

This e-mail is just a reminder to all of you guys who were/weren't at the meeting that our next meeting date will be on Monday October 26th! In G102 during lunch (again 5-10 minutes after the lunch bell rings).

Don't worry I'll be sending out reminders periodically just for a heads up!

The Global Compassion Project (GCP) --
The Global Compassion Project is a non-profit program sponsored by Renewal Foundation, Inc. aimed at bringing students from around the world together in a unique cultural exchange.
GCP:China is based at the Xinhua Compassion Senior High School, a high school campus located in Zhejiang, Pinghu. Net proceeds from this program will be donated to the impoverished students studying at the school.

Goals of GCP: China, High School Summer Program:
1. To build up one's core values and sense of compassion.
2. To build leadership and teamwork through community-based initiatives.
3. To bring American and Chinese students together through service and education.
4. To foster appreciation of the Chinese culture through hands-on immersion.

Contents of the camp:
1. English Teaching: Teaching younger Chinese students English and visiting kindergartens.
2. Cultural Insight: Kung Fu, Chinese music instruments, Chinese opera, traditional crafts, chinese calligraphy, chinese painting, etc.
3. Community Service: Active engagement in community-based projects, such as visiting senior center and environmental clean-up. Upon program completion, participants will receive a certificate for approximately 75-100 hours of community service.
4. Sightseeing: Visiting Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Xitang.
5. Visiting government officials and local entrepreneurs.

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the team
(note: this portion is still a working progress)


Anna Irwin recently graduated from Princeton University and is excited to face the real world. Starting in September, she will be working for a nonprofit called Ashoka in D.C. She feels honored to have been a part of GCP in 2007, when she traveled to China for the first time as a Project Coordinator and director of a documentary for the project. She is looking forward to traveling to China again for a leadership training trip with some of the core volunteers from GCP's project in 2007. Anna enjoys filming, riding horses, and is currently trying to remember how to play the piano!


Elison Chen is a senior at Diamond Bar High School. He plans to major in business or computer science. He enjoyed teaching the elementary students during the 2007 GCP trip to China due to their openness to new ideas. He gained a lot of confidence in public speaking from the teaching he did in China. He hopes for GCP to carry out teaching groups to underprivileged children all around the world.


Emily Chen was the leader of the Yellow Team during the China trip in 2007. Currently, she is a Computer Science Major at UCLA and enjoys programming, reading, and chatting with friends in her free time. She made many new friends with the high school students in China and also enjoyed teaching the younger students at the elementary. During her trip in China, she realized how fortunate she was and how she took so many of the things she had for granted. She hopes that the future GCP will have a greater outreach to both American students and other people around the world.


Jonathan Chu Chu is a senior at Troy High School. He plans to major in Computer Science. During the 2007 China trip he was a part the red team. During the trip he was challenged to make a speech at a ship factory in Chinese while he had limited Chinese skills. Speaking with a really bad accent this experience was one of the many fun and interesting activities that he will continue to remember forever. Now he works as one of the student leaders. He hopes that GCP will be able to spread throughout the world, will continue to inspire many.


Tiffany Babb Tiffany Babb is a junior at Diamond Bar High School. She has been involved in the Global Compassion Project leadership since the setup of GCP 2007. Tiffany is very excited about planning the upcoming trip of 2010. Tiffany is the treasurer of her school's French Club, and is the president of her group called Illuminate. In her free time, Tiffany enjoys reading, singing, and cooking. Tiffany hopes to see many new faces and old faces in 2010!


Tracy Liu is currently a senior at Woodbridge High School. She was one of the participating members of the 2007 Summer China Trip as part of the green team and is currently part of the student board directors for the Global Compassion Project. She is the founder of the GCP-Irvine Branch and currently stands as the President of the GCP club within her campus where she recruits high school students to also partake in the summer cultural exchange program. In her free time, she enjoys dancing Jazz and Hip-Hop and she is also a 2nd degree Black Belt student instructor for her dojo.

MORE TO COME....

Global Compassion Project 2010 application (Adobe needed)

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