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- February 1, 2023 – Wild China, Episode 31
Educating Girls of Rural China with Ching Tien - July 8, 2021 – The Bilateral—A CCBC Podcast, Episode #6
Ching Tien received CCBC’s 5 at 50 award in the Women’s category - May 6, 2021 – South China Morning Post
Non-profit that empowers rural Chinese women through education celebrated in portraits of some of those it has helped - August 11, 2020 – RADII
Help This NGO Change Girls’ Lives in Rural China – Mayura Jain - June 12, 2020 – Richmond News
Virtual conference aims to empower girls in rural China – Nono Shen - November 22, 2017 – China Daily
‘Family’ Help – Tien Ching founded Educating Girls of Rural China in the belief that educating women is the key to a better society. – Xing Wen - November 13, 2017 – Sixth Tone
Changing Rural Education, One Girl at a Time – By funding schooling for young women, NGO hopes to chip away at gender inequality in the Chinese countryside. – Cai Yiwen - June 8, 2017 – China Today
Rural Chinese Girl Speaks to the World – Zhou Lin - May, 2017 – American Chamber of Commerce Business Now
Educating Gansu’s Girls: An In-Depth Interview. We sat down with Ching Tien, founder of Educating Girls of Rural China – Aaron Kruse
- April 4, 2017 – Asia Society
How Chinese Girls Can Bring Down the Rural Patriarchy – Eric Fish - March 28, 2017 – News Deeply
Helping Rural Chinese Girls Clear the Hurdles to University – Helen Roxburgh - April 23, 2015 – China daily
Girls’ education project is proving a massive success! EGRC celebrates a decade of support for hundreds of students from rural regions. – Emma Gonzalez - April 16, 2015 – China Women’s News
Let more people realize the importance of girls’ education – The story of Tien Ching sponsoring rural female students – Yuan Peng - Jan 4, 2014 – Global National, Everyday Hero
In the poorest rural villages in China, education is a luxury most can’t afford and the system favours boys to girls. But a Canadian woman is determined to change that, one step at a time. Paul Johnson has the story of Vancouver’s Tien Ching. - July 8, 2012 – China Daily
One step at a time – Canada’s Tien Ching puts her money where her heart is, reaching out to educate girls in rural China – Mei Jia - December 25, 2011 – Globe and Mail
By educating girls, a charity changes lives in rural China - May 27, 2011 – The Toronto Star
Saving the girls of rural China – Bill Schiller
- July 4, 2009 – Vancouver Sun
Local businesswoman helps Chinese women attend University. Tien Ching, who arrived in Canada from Beijing in 1983, is the founder of the non-profit B.C. Society for Educating Girls in China – Gerry Bellett - July 1, 2009 – Xinhua News Agency
Love across Pacific – “Vancouver mom” sponsors 165 underprivileged Chinese university girls – Zhao Qing, Yang Shilong - June 5, 2009 – The Vancouver Courier
Canadian benefactors send Chinese girls to school – Twenty-six women graduate this year after receiving society funding – Janaya Fuller-Evans - May 9, 2009 – Interview on CBC TV National News
“She was brought up in China’s cultural revolution and denied an education. Years later, as an adult living in Canada, Tien Ching decided to do her part to make sure girls in rural China get the education she missed.” Peter Mansbridge - January 7, 2008 – Interview on the CBC Radio One The Early Edition and Anthony Germain Report from Gansu
A Vancouver woman is making a vital and profound difference in the lives of poor female students in Northern China
