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What I did not get to tell German VISA Officer

It was not a particularly cold morning. I walked over to the German Embassy to hand in the package for my VISA application for a short studying vacation in Germany. Soon inside the VISA office, I found the place crowded with fellow Chinese citizens waiting for their interviews. Most were young students, some dressed in [...]

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Come to 24quan and iguanzhong

This is not an ad for tuangou. And we are not asking you to buy anything. But if you log onto 24quan.com and iguanzhong.com this coming World AIDS Day, you would find us doing a campaign together with Chaoyang Center for Disease Control.
Well, guess you have to come and check it out yourself before you [...]

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Ai Youyou, China’s first independent short drama film on HIV/AIDS

With the tireless efforts and many sleepless nights of editing, Qi and Zheng, both undergraduate students from Tsinghua Art Academy, leading their school mates and PTE’s volunteers, produced this short drama, based on a story written by PTE’s Minhoo.
It’s a fresh attempt to catch eyes of China’s young people to contemplate on the growing impact [...]

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Help provide winter clothing for people living with HIV

PTE is leading an initiative to provide winter clothing for 58 people living with HIV in Hebei province (55 adults and 3 children).  We are happy to accept donations of lightly worn or new winter clothes at our office in Beijing (contact Carl Wang at carl.wang@pte-china.org to make arrangements for pickup or drop-off), or online donations that will [...]

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World Aids Day CD Preview.

Welcome to our CD preview page… please click the play button beneath each photo to listen to a 30 second clip of the artists song!
If you like it… then contact us via info@pte-china.org to find out how to get a copy of the CD and more information about Prevention Through Education.

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Welcome back! LVS children

The graduation of the first LVS class was only months ago. Meeting the score of new students, we can’t help but feeling getting older already as they remain the same youthful ages of 16-22.

They love internet. They communicate more with text-messaging than in real life. They are most interested in subjects about romance and love [...]

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Teacher Training Program

May 5, 2010. Photos from Minhoo.
A journalist from China’s foremost English Newspaper. An auditor from ‘big four’ accounting firm. An intelligent software programer. A trilingual translator and social enterprise entrepreneur. A senior manager of corporate culture. A talented textile engineer. None has exactly overlapping areas over than the district they live and work at. And [...]

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Health Classes for Chaoyang and Changping Migrant School Students

May-5-2010, Beijing. Videos filmed edited by Volunteer Sun Jing. Photos from Minhoo.
Starting at the end of March, every Thursday and Friday afternoons, PTE staffers along with a few PTE volunteers travel to Dongba at Chaoyang and Pingxiwangfu at Changping District respectively, to teach 2 classes of 11-14 year-olds about general health issues and HIV prevention. As an [...]

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HIV Prevention Course taught in Biology Class in Guangxi

Dec. 16th, 2009, students from Peihong Minzu Middle School in Nanning, Guangxi Province received their first lesson on HIV/AIDS prevention in their biology classes. Biology teacher Li Ting has adopted the HIV/AIDS education curriculum ( the series targetting 6-8 graders) provided by PTE and distributred the teaching materials in the department. The four-session curriculum covers facts about AIDS [...]

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Volunteers teaching at Sanhe, Hebei

Around 4:30 p.m. on November 30, 2009, 12 volunteers from Beijing University of Chemical Technology arrived at Yanjiao Middle School, City of Sanhe, Hebei province. After receiving a 3-hours training led by PTE’s program manager Minhoo the previous day, they each acted as a volunteer teacher facing a classroom of 7th graders, equipped with teaching syllabus and relevant materials [...]

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