Hybrids and Humanitarian Organizations – Part 2

November 17th, 2009
Security Guard trainees learn the ins-and-outs of using an industrial fire extinguisher from their Christian Action instructor.

Security Guard trainees learn the ins-and-outs of using an industrial fire extinguisher.

Last week I wrote that you’d be hard pressed to believe Hong Kong was ever host to tens of thousands of Vietnamese refugees as new construction has now erased almost all evidence of  the camps.  Yet if you were to have told me back then that Christian Action would grow from being a purely local humanitarian organization into one Hong Kong’s most cutting edge Training Bodies I would have laughed silly! Read the rest of this entry »

Hybrids and Humanitarian Organizations

November 10th, 2009

Children of Section 9, Whitehead Detention Center, Hong Kong. 1995

In my job as Executive Director you can’t help but be captivated by the orphans we help in China.  But serving children is not new for Christian Action – it actually stretches back to our earliest days when… Read the rest of this entry »

Through A Photographer’s Lens

October 27th, 2009

If you enjoy photography then this weekʼs blog post is for you!  Fourteen years ago I sent my former Senior Manager Adam Voysey to investigate the possibility of Christian Action assisting the government of Qinghai Province with its orphanage and poverty alleviation work.  The trip was so successful that this year marks our 11th anniversary of co-managing the Xining Childrenʼs Home. Today I have asked Adam, who is now a US based photographer, to share a few pictures he has taken for us over the years. Enjoy! Read the rest of this entry »