Shop to Help

Flying Pigeons (FeiGe) are hatched at HTS' city Tianjin Bicycle Company, which was originally an artillery factory created by Japanese occupying forces in 1936. After the Communists came to power in 1949, the bicycle industry was revived. In the early 1950s, Chairman Mao's heir apparent Liu Shaoqi paid a visit to the factory and commanded that it become the first bicycle manufacturer in New China. Now FeiGe flys wherever bikes still survive the city streets

Sharing their good fortune

For one San Francisco Bay Area family, fundraising for Half the Sky started with Richard Bowen’s book, Mei Mei, Little Sister: Portraits from a Chinese Orphanage. When Ava Chan showed the book to her 14-year-old son, Peter and her 13-year-old daughter, Vivian two years ago, they poured over the haunting portraits of girls living in Chinese orphanages. “We were so touched by the moving photos,” says Peter....

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Go shopping and help the children at the same time!

Every purchase you make in Half the Sky's online catalog will touch the life of an orphaned child in China. Why not give a gift that really makes a difference?

Shop to Help
Mei Mei Portfolio
Stunning museum-quality prints of selected images from the book Mei Mei

Books/Posters
Mei Mei, The Great Wall, and more....

Greeting Cards

Apparel/Accessories

1-Month Sponsorships / Gift Certificates
Give a gift for any occasion; give a gift that can help change a life. Each $25-$500 gift is acknowledged with a beautiful personalized certificate that can be sent either directly to the recipient or to the donor for presentation.

$500 Bilingual Certificate: Give a gift that helps the children still waiting in the orphanage where your child once lived.

$100 Art Supplies For a Month to help stock a Little Sisters Preschool in an orphanage in China.

$100 A One-Month Nanny Sponsorship that helps support a Half the Sky-trained nanny at a Baby Sisters Infant Nurture Center in an orphanage in China. (We're sorry! — rising costs in China force us to increase the price.)

$75 A one-month Big Sister Sponsorship that helps provide tutoring and enrichment for older children living in Chinese institutions.

$50 Good Time Gift Certificate helps support Half the Sky’s Good Time Fund to pay for outings, adventures, and special projects at a Half the Sky Little Sisters Preschool located in an orphanage in China.

$50 A One-Month Child Sponsorship that provides nurture and enrichment for a child in our Baby Sisters or Little Sisters program in an orphanage in China. (We're sorry! — rising costs in China force us to increase the price.)

$25 A Teacher Appreciation Gift that honors a special teacher and also helps support the work of HTS-trained teacher at a Little Sisters preschool in an orphanage in China.