Kathleen Hall Memorial Scholarship News

(Deborah met our two scholars, Shi Hongli and Wang Shuizhen when she visited Lanzhou with Dave Bromwich.) In September 2011, I was delighted to have the opportunity of meeting our two He Ming Qing nursing scholars, Shi Hongli and Wang Shuizhen, and to hear first-hand of their experiences and expectations since moving to Lanzhou to attend University. I spent an evening with them at a restaurant in Lanzhou, along with NZCFS Vice President Dave Bromwich. Both girls are enjoying living in Lanzhou … [Read more...]

Wang Shuizhen, Fourth Scholar Feng County, Baoji District, Shaanxi Province Wang Shuizhen started her scholarship in September 2010 at Northwest Minorities University in Lanzhou. On 11 January, 2011, she wrote to Dave Bromwich: “I represent my parents to thank you very much for your help. Without your heklp it would be very difficult for my parents to send me to college. I feel I was very lucky to1 get the He Mingqing Scholarship. I have read the story about He Mingqing. She was very kind, … [Read more...]

From: Minle County, Zhangye District, Gansu Attends: Gansu Medical University, Nursing Studies Scholarship: September 2009 to June 2013 Shi Hongli comes from a small village in a very poor county, Minle Xian, in Zhangye City, not far from Shandan on the edge of the Gobi Desert. She is now in her third year at Gansu Medical University in Lanzhou and was chosen by the Women’s Federation of Zhangye, who are looking after her. Without the scholarship, she would not have been able to become a … [Read more...]

Shen Qianqian was chosen as our 2008 He Ming Qing Scholar in Hebei Province. She was 20 years old and vcame from a remote village in the Taihang Mountains, south of where Kathleen Hall was working. Shen received no support from any other source than her family, who are poor farmers. She was an average student but had a strong commitment to her profession. Dave Bromwich reported that Madam Ma Baoru took Qianqian under her wing and called her “Daughter”; Qianqian called her “Auntie”. Mao … [Read more...]

Wei Yunjie was the first recipient of the He Ming Qing scholarship. She was born in 1986 and comes from Chuang Shang Village in Huanjiang County southwest of Guilin. Wei Yunjie is Maonan, one of the smaller ethnic groups in China with approximately 90,000 mostly living in Guangxi. Huanjiang is the only Maonan Autonomous County in China. Wei Yunjie says she wants to be a nurse because the Huanjiang hospitals are not good and need better-qualified staff; her father had liver disease from which he … [Read more...]

He Ming Qing (Kathleen Hall) Memorial ScholarshipFrom 1996-2005 the NZ-China Friendship Society Inc. in association with N.Z. Nurses Organisation Inc. awarded the Kathleen Hall Centennial Memorial Scholarship to provide an award of $1,500, later raised to $3,000, for a New Zealand Registered Nurse to undertake graduate study in an area of nursing in the community.Past winnersThere have been 9 scholarship winners since then, all of whom captured the spirit of Kathleen Hall in their … [Read more...]