{"id":3324,"date":"2012-09-18T07:14:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T07:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2012-09-18T07:14:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T07:14:39","slug":"bo-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/bo-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Bo Ai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was first approached by my sister to help document images of a school in Shanxi. Finalizing my schedule for a trip there was not an easy task, as I was travelling a lot this year.<\/p>\n<p>But I was glad that I made the trip back in May 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Bo Ai School is not just a school to help children be literate but it\u2019s a place where both children and teachers are taught on what love is and the value of life through profound selfless love demonstrated by the founder, Christine Chan<\/p>\n<p>On Sept 8th, the group organized a fundraising event exhibiting a collection of photographs themed \u201cJourney of Love\u201d. Over 300,000 RMB was raised in donations, sale of photographs, raffle tickets and pledges. Giving is truly a blessing \u2013 thanks to all of you who have supported Bo Ai in this mission!<\/p>\n<p>I have since gone back to the school a 2nd time recently, spending much quality time with the students, teachers, and Christine. I attended some of the classes together with them.. had meals together with them, and did some photo presentations to them.<\/p>\n<p>I was deeply moved and transformed by their simple and thankful way of life. <\/p>\n<p>Here is a slideshow presentation of a series of photographs that I captured back in May 2012.<\/p>\n<p>It documents the lives of the kids in Boai School.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MhIkJnUBEJg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here are the photos posted previously..<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/bo-ai-school-feng-chun-feng-village\/\"><em><strong>https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/bo-ai-school-feng-chun-feng-village\/<\/strong><\/em><\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/bo-ai-school-%e2%80%93-feng-chun-feng-village-series-2\/\"><em><strong>https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/bo-ai-school-%e2%80%93-feng-chun-feng-village-series-2\/<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was first approached by my sister to help document images of a school in Shanxi. Finalizing my schedule for a trip there was not an easy task, as I was travelling a lot this year. But I was glad that I made the trip back in May 2012. Bo Ai School is not just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61,17,4],"tags":[151,148,153,147,347,150,154,149,50,32,16,152],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3326,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions\/3326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}