Community Matters: Chi Fan For Charity Passes Target, Plus Yoga For Typhoon Haiyan Relief

Chi Fan for Charity has just announced they raised a record in Beijing this year. Proceeds from the dining charity event earlier this month have reached over the target of RMB 500,000 and will be donated to Little Flower Projects and Educating Girls of Rural China.

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Avocado Development is hosting a charity yoga class this Sunday from 4 to 6:30pm at Yoga Sumit to help raise money for the ongoing relief efforts in the Phillipines. All levels are welcome. The class will consist mainly of meditation practice, asanas (poses), partner yoga and arm balances led by instructors Vivian Dong and Victor Chau. No registration is required but a minimum donation of RMB 100 is suggested to participate.

According to the UN, 11 million people have been affected by Typhoon Haiyan which devasted the Phillipnes and parts of southeast Asia in early November. That's roughly one in seven if you take into account the country's populationn of 77 million. An estimated 5,500 people have died.

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Proceeds will go to the Department of Social Welfare and Development and will be used to help rebuild homes and feed the hungry. For more information, call Victor Chau at Avocado Development: 186 0002 6627 or email victorchau@avocadodevelopment.com.

Here are some more community events this week:

• China Women's Film Festival 2013
• 2013 Hilton Beijing Christmas Tree Lighting
• St. Andrew's Ball
• American Thanksgiving at the Great Wall

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