Episode 31:Educating Girls of Rural China with Ching Tien

For this episode we’re delving into the mission of EGRC (Educating Girls of Rural China), an NGO supporting the educational pursuits of girls in China’s underprivileged regions. Our guest is the founder of EGRC, Ching Tien, who shares with us her personal story of growing up in China. Her path strays from an educated family background and setting, to relocation in Gansu, the poorest province in China at the time, where she worked in a factory. Several decades later, Ching found herself at a children’s concert in Vancouver, thinking of the girls she bumped shoulders with back in Gansu, and the many worldly opportunities they were missing out on. The first seedlings of EGRC were thence planted, and today, over 2,000 girls in China have benefited from the NGO born of that dream. 

在这一期节目中，我们将深入研究EGRC，这是一个支持中国贫困地区女孩受教育的非政府组织。我们的嘉宾是EGRC的创始人田青青，她与我们分享了她在中国成长的个人故事。她曾离开了受过良好教育的家庭背景和环境，来到当时中国最贫穷的省份甘肃，在那里的一家工厂工作。几十年后，在温哥华的一场儿童音乐会上令她想起了在甘肃和她擦肩而过的女孩们和她们错过的人生机遇。自此，EGRC的第一批幼苗从那里种下，到今天，中国已有2000多名女孩从这个梦想诞生的非政府组织中受益。