April 2021 Silver Lining Newsletter
Nanning
March 3 is the traditional song festival for the ethnic Zhuang people. On this day, everyone at Silver Lining changed into their ethnic wear and were happily singing and dancing. There were lots of activities too including folk song singing, flower ball tossing and bamboo trap dancing. We are so happy everytime our children have the opportunity to learn more about their traditional culture.
Dahua
Here in Dahua, we celebrated by cooking five-color glutinous rice balls! Our children washed and cut up the dishes, it was a blast! The rice stands for good fortune and harvest. We hope that everything will get better in May!
Vietnam
In China, we eat tangyuan, or glutinous rice balls, every January 15. Here in Vietnam though, our tangyuan festival is on March the third. At the Hanoi Rehabilitation Center, we made tangyuan’s of all colors: red, orange, yellow, purple. Everyone’s having such a great time and we can’t wait to do it again!
Myanmar
Due to the coup in Myanmar and Covid, our staff at the Yangon Center have evacuated our local students and arranged for them to go back to their hometowns. We hope the situation will get better soon, and our children can come back to the center for rehabilitation. While in the Family Village, we have prepared a lot of interesting classes for the children including athlete training and basketball. They’ve learned to do push-ups and sit-ups to get fit.