Due to the restrictive operating environment for foreign NGOs in China, we’ve shifted our strategy to finding a partner Chinese organization, with whom we can launch a response project open to both foreign and Chinese volunteers.
The past few days have been filled with meetings with various local and national Chinese NGOs and foundations. We present the work that HODR has done in other countries and how we can be effective in similar ways in Sichuan. The HODR model is very different from current NGO activities in China and so skepticism yields to curiosity, which turns into genuine interest in the opportunities we can create.
We plan to spend the next week establishing these partnerships. The operating environment in China is completely different from any country that we’ve worked in before, so these next steps are critical in determining whether a volunteer deployment is possible or not.
John Hancock
Project Coordinator
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