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Claire’s (in-country project mananger) personal account.

On the evening of May 17, Claire together with some CDC people held a very interesting and successful programme activity in a Jingpo village known as Yunqian Village. It is one of the villages under a greater Yunqian Village Committee, which is about 35 km from Mangshi, capital town of Dehong Prefecture, and includes 5 Jingpo villages and 1 De’ang village.

Three Jingpo villages were involved, and totalling 113 households! We had planned to include 87 households in two villages only, because the third village is about 4 km away rom the venue, but unexpectedly many young men and women from those 26 families in the third village came upon the news that we were doing an interesting programme. It was really inspiring!

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This training was also with the De’Ang ethnic minority group though with a different group than the previous training. Three villages had people at the training which was held in the largest of the village’s administration compound. Over 175 people showed up! There was lots of talking, Q&A, games and songs with an HIV/AIDS prevention theme. Lots of smiles were passed on both sides and lots of energy. It went well considering how BIG of a group there was.

This trip I invited a Canadian friend who has been working here in Hong Kong for 4 years, Michael Lang, to join us. He has been raising funds for NGOs over the past 3 years and is very interested in helping us with our work in Yunnan.

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