Several students from Jackson State University are spending time in China on internship, and are keeping a blog of their experiences. With a wide range of joy, wonder and sadness, the blog should be required reading for HBCU students who want to have an overseas learning experience.
A sample entry from Gabrielle P. Frazier:
The Pfrang trip to Northern Jiangsu Province, China was amazing. I didn't expect to experience anything like it. Pfrang is a nonprofit organization that started about ten years ago, sponsoring over six hundred students in need. These children that qualify for sponsorship have either lost both of their parents and are orphans, or their parents are disabled. I was actually in the home of a sixteen year old male orphan who lost his mother some time ago and his father just last month. He rents out rooms in the house for income for his food, which he cooks one week at a time.
I stood right beside his meal, so emotional I walked out. Most of the children applying for the scholarship wrote maybe a page of family history and why they should receive the scholarship. This young boy only wrote, "Both my parents died and I'm only a child."
I have so much to be grateful for!
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