Lots of fun, music and fundraising going on at Marcopalooza at 4C last night! Thanks to everyone who came and danced or played the night away. Special thanks to 4 Corners for hosting the event and to our sponsors, including Goodworks Coffee & Tea, Bookworm, Homeplate, and Andy’s Sausages, who kindly donated raffle prizes- the […]
CONTINUE READINGThe penultimate MCF session of the year was such a sunny one that we took full advantage of the weather this morning to take classes outside for music, photos, fun, and a rather large version of the Hokey Pokey! Thanks to Dulwich, MCF@CUFE, MCF@UIBE and thanks to Ruke, Lance, Matt, Gary, and Viola.
CONTINUE READINGNumbers, numbers, numbers at the MCF infants school this morning. Lots of smiles too! Thanks to Anthony, Vittoria, and Claudia- our lovely volunteers who taught this morning- for giving up their time and helping the kids enjoy learning and getting creative.
CONTINUE READINGThree days until Marcopalooza! 6 Bands, 1 drummer plus special guests. Lots of cool raffle prizes too, from our lovely sponsors: Andy’s Sausages, The Hilton, The Bookworm, Goodworks Coffee & Tea, and Homeplate to name a few.
CONTINUE READINGThe Canadian school hosted a quiz night on Friday (and there was a barbecue). Lorna, unfortunately, couldn’t have made it on Friday, but she was very happy to be visiting them later to collect the 4690 RMB they raised for MCF that evening. Great work Canadian School and all the “quizzers” that took part!
CONTINUE READINGToday for the third week, MCF ran an arts and craft workshop for the mothers of the migrant children. Once again our thanks goes to Janice for running the session which proved to be a big success with those who took part. Also, our thanks to the volunteers that attended and supported the session. <a […]
CONTINUE READINGEnjoy some art, learn about what some great organizations are doing in Beijing and support good works. Plus we’ll be there, so stop by, say hello and find out what we’re up to at MCF.
CONTINUE READINGMeeting some great people today with exciting ideas and projects. One of whom is Roseann of Girl Scout Troop 89 who has raised 1700 RMB for MCF through making and selling lemonade as part of a recent young entrepreneur initiative. This amount is going to be matched by Roundabout taking the total to 3400 RMB!! […]
CONTINUE READINGGreat mix of classes this morning! BSB doing English and Science, Dulwich doing music and MCF@CUFE doing English. Awesome to see the students getting access to more subjects and having fun while doing so. Also some smaller groups, volunteers, got to teach as well.
CONTINUE READINGToday we also had 40 partners of Australian Defence Force officers visiting one of our schools. The lesson was fun teaching the kids sentences about the Platypus and Echidna. Puzzles – then colouring. Finally, every child was given an Australian animal sticker and other gifts. Our special thanks to Amita, Heidi and Ash. We were […]
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