Sunday, September 5th, 2010
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Qingdao Expat Group is a community for expats, by expats. It continues to grow witheach passing year and is currently represented by members, accompanying spouses and children from 56 countries! We aim to create a mutual understanding of Chinese and Western cultures and also hope to help new Expats arriving in Qingdao to settle in more comfortably by frequently organising events such as balls and dances, dinners..
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Qingdao Expat Charity Committee
The Qingdao Expat Charity is a committee of volunteers made up of people originating from Belgium, China, Germany, The Netherlands, Slovakia, and the U.S. The membership is always changing as families arrive in Qingdao and then depart for their home countries or new country assignments.
From the back L to R Suse Meier-Menge,HeleneLagendijk/van Oosterbosch,Sue Turrentine,Bertha Tamez
Middle L to R Judy Sun,Beate Meuser,Heike Lehmann,Vicki Peterson
Front L to R Xiao Zou Jie,Leo van Echelpoel,Jana Halikova,Marcela Lickova,Christiane Lawo Fu,Carla Vassmer
Fund raising continues throughout the calendar year, including weekly Mahjong games, dinners, Panto performances, Charity lunches, Summer Dance, Guided Historic “Tsingtau” Tours, Qingdao Expat Magazine donation, ending with the Charity Committee’s largest fundraiser of the year -- the Qingdao ExPat Winter Ball.
Being a Charity Committee member is more than just attending monthly meetings, you are welcome to go on a day trip to visit rural schools and meet students we are sponsoring and along with looking at school structures the teachers are asking for help to repair. Or, you may spend an hour meeting with a Qingdao heart surgeon and nurses and see children before and after their surgeries and sometime meet their parents.
We welcome you to join with us in our Mission to assist needy Qingdao area children. It is such a wonderful fulfilling experience to help these children.
