Small Business Contributors
Our small business contributors pledge a portion of the proceeds from their services or products to help support Half the Sky programs.
Because every child, no matter how humble her beginnings, deserves loving care, and a chance at a bright future.
Half the Sky operates programs at six welfare institutions in Hunan Province: at Shaoyang, Yueyang, Chenzhou, Xiangtan and at two different orphanages in Yiyang.
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....