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Shanxi Evergreen Service
Mission: "To assist Shanxi and other provinces by developing public benefit services for the common people"
In China since: 1993
Annual China budget: $250,000
Number of staff: 25 national and 23 expatriate
Mainland China contact:
Finn Torjesen(叶福礼)
Executive Director
Mark Strand (马克己) Operations Officer
PO Box 11 Zhongloujie Post Office
Taiyuan
Shanxi 030002
Tel: +86 (0)351 353 2565
Fax: +86 (0)351 353 1687
International Contact:
Patricia Mortenson
PO Box 38488
Colorado Springs
CO 80937-8488
United States
Tel: +1 719 575 9922
Fax: +1 719 575 9923
Religious Affiliation:
Christian
Peder Torjesen was a Norwegian missionary who went to Yangqu County in Shanxi Province in 1920, and established various social and community services as part of his ministry. In 1989 the Shanxi provincial government invited Torjesen’s descendants, who had since emigrated to the United States, to return to Shanxi and resume this charitable work. In response, the Torjesen family and their friends established Shanxi Evergreen Services. (‘Evergreen’ is a reference to the Chinese name that Torjesen used, 叶永青). The organisation has since grown steadily.
Work has included long-term training programmes for local health professionals in family medicine and maternal and child health. A ‘Samaritan Fund’ covers the costs of essential medical treatment for impoverished people in Yangqu County.
SES provides scholarships for children from poor families to remain in school, and has established a community centre that includes a library and computer equipment. Various activities for local children take place at the centre, which also oversees a mobile library service that lends reading materials to rural schools.
An Evergreen Agricultural Training and Demonstration Centre facilitates training in appropriate agricultural technologies, provides assistance in marketing produce, and helps farmers to form cooperatives and technical associations that improve productivity. New, low-cost biogas digester technology is now being tested, for incorporation into agricultural development projects.
Other ongoing projects include English language training for people with limited access to foreign teachers – such as health workers in urban hospitals, rural middle school teachers; assistance to Chinese and international businesses and organizations looking to bring foreign investment to Shanxi, and facilitation of foreign experts and cultural exchanges in military, publishing, academic, religious and economic sectors.
Shanxi Evergreen Services’ funds come from church groups, foundations and individual supporters.
Links
http://effs@pcisys.net
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