2007-09-18   Visit to all centers (Assisi, Ricci School, Marco Polo, Bahkita, Mazenod, Ricci Memorial Center)
 + CAS   + Zhaoqing's two ecclesia   + "Red Building"    (...The One Day Super Tour...)
 by two very special people - Fr Matthew  Carpenter & Thomas Li, director and deputy director of New China Link,
a development agency in rural Guizhou (where most of our migrant worker families in Zhaoqing come from)
Matt, from Ireland, has been in China as a teacher and project worker for 26 years
....and once had the honor of being invited to a reception
 in Beijing's Great Hall of The People   hosted by Zhu Rong Ji whom he met in person.
Matt & Thomas are trying to start vocational/technical  schools in Guizhou
to cater for the vast majority of students who are not university-bound.
Matt  recommends that China8  help work for the setting up of a technical school in Zhaoqing
 - especially for students from migrant worker families.
He's right of course...it's a coming need....
very few of the migrant worker children will go far in secondary school,
and technical skills training in partnership with companies/factories is most desirable/practical.
DV when China8 website is soon upgraded and more local people support our work
....maybe a technical training center is not impossible.
So far I know of only two of our former students who are in the work force
....two girls...both aged about 15....Helen & Lisa....sent to work long hours in factories to get money for their families.
 If only they could have had some technical training    a better job/life would have been accessible