Shanghai Mama

You can help built a shelter for those affected by the earthquake. It’s super easy you just need to buy a t-shirt! Go here to read more about it.

Heart to Heart Shanghai is a Shanghai based non-profit community outreach organization formed by expatriates. Volunteers dedicate time and raise funds for disadvantaged children in Shanghai and Wuxi who are undergoing heart surgery to correct congenital heart defects.
Spending time with children in hospital, making a donation or buying a incredibly cute Heart Bear are just a few of the different ways you can choose to help out.

Learn more from their website and keep an eye out for a cute little bear with a hand knitted cardigan and a shiny red crystal heart pinned to his cardy at the next bazaar you attend, selling 143 bears enables the charity to raise enough money to sponsor a life saving heart operation!

Half the sky is a US based charity which works at helping orphaned babies and girls in China to have a more fullfiling and nurtured upbringing.

They run 3 main projects:
Baby sister Infant Nurture Center: HTS employs and trains special “Nannies”, local retired women, to spend their days in the orphanage, each holding and playing with 3-3 babies in a relaxed, family-like environment.
Little Sister Preschools: HTS employs young local teachers and then trains them in an innovative and empowering curriculum which combines the western” Reggio Emilia” approach with the best of contemporary Chinese preschool methods.
Big Sister Project: HTS created this program to give older orphaned girls a chance to make something special of their lives. Tailored to the needs of the individual, they provide the services that have the potential to turn a girl’s life arounds: remedial tutoring, middle school tuition, music, computer , langare and vocational training. The hope is that one day they will teach in the HTS schools and share what they’ve learned with their little sisters.

This is just a little bit of information on what they do I got from their flyer, please check out the website for more info.

Apart from sending a donation you can support this charity by buying your breastfeeding cushion from one of their Shanghai based volonteers, the cost for the cushion with 2 covers is of 150rmb and that also pays for an extra cushion to be made and donated to one of the orphanages.
Local volonteers also make hand made cards. You can find their products at of the charity sales that regularly happen around town or by contacting one the volonteers through the contact below.

For info: htsshanghai@halfthesky.org
Local volonteers who have breastfeeding cushions: Lynn Humphreys: lynnhumphreys(at)hotmail.com
Mhairi Higgings: thehigginsclan(at)hotmail.com

The charity organization A PLEINES MAINS organizes regular sales where you can find a large selection of second-hand children clothing( 0-5 years), toys, kids and adults books and nursery items (baby cots, baby chair, safe car chair etc, very cheap prices!)

For info on the next sale get in touch at: showroomapm@yahoo.fr or check the EVENTS page on this site.

BELOW MORE INFO FROM THEIR MAIL OUT:
The show room’s benefits will continue to support the orphanage for blind kids near Beijing: www.bethelchina.org

How to help?
We collect what you do not need anymore but which can be highly valuable
for those in need. We allocate your donated goods, according to the exact
needs of each establishment we support (orphanages, old people houses,
schools, institutes for handicapped people) and those in excellent
condition can be sold if you don’t mind.
All the benefits are used exclusively to finance special projects. Don’t hesitate!
You can drop off your donations anytime: adult’s and child clothing,
toys, books, clothing stocks surpluses, computers, furniture, any items..

Please contact us on
apleinesmains@yahoo.com or
showroomapm@yahoo.fr

Goods depot for your donations:
- in Puxi : Annette Girard, apleinesmains@yahoo.com
- in Gubei: Claire Rechatin from 12h to 6pm every tuesday, wednesday,
Thursday to XijiaoVilla East , Hongqiao lu 1919#, villa G-06.
- Near french and german school: Isabelle Donadieu 59888500
- Shanghai racket club: Signe Kuhl 22 01 04 70 signe@kuhl.net
- Down town: Stephanie Chanlieu 52 39 99 77
PS : with your agreement some articles could be for sale at Caroline’s place
for the Bethel project .