Starting tomorrow, no phone, no net, no stink city!
after two days of military training, we leave Shanghai two weeks of Roots & Shoots poverty alleviation
in Anhui Province, China

Anhui is a mountainous province just west of Shanghai. It straddles the Yangtze River. It's also one of the poorest places in China.

After two days of military training, complete with PLA-style camouflage uniforms (I'm looking forward to the pics as much as you are) 30 or so R&S staff and volunteers will get in a couple of big buses and head to the hills. After two days in a small village handing out scholarships, we'll ride tractors to an even tinier village, where we'll teach and build a school, and donate a warehouse full of clothes and household goods.

I have few details other than what I've already written. I won't have any technological connections to the outside world until the end of this month.

I need this!

Will write full reports.


In other news, the first Roots & Shoots organic garden project at Qingpu High School (suburbs of Shanghai) is going great guns! After only a month and a half, we harvested eggplants and cucumbers. Organic soybeans and other wonders are on their way! Wow!