Drink for a Better World with Wokai

This Tuesday, December 7, Wokai will be organizing their monthly event – Drinks for a Better World (DFBW) @ Nearby the Tree.

This month’s Wokai event will be introducing Mr. Shawn Shieh, a visiting professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University.  Discussing NGO/Civil Society in China, he will focus on the recent developments in the NGO field in China especially in relation to the recent 12th Five Year Plan.

His most recent publication (State and Society Responses to Social Welfare Needs in China: Serving the people):

“Based on current research, this book engages existing debates over state-society relations offering a new thematic framework to evaluate this relationship. Drawing on the framework, each chapter explores a particular aspect of social service provision including orphan care, migrant labor protection and infectious disease control. An interdisciplinary line up of contributors explore this dynamic, and how it affects the state-society relationship and the quality of social services provided in contemporary China.”

Event details:

• Date: Tuesday, December 7
  
• Time: 7:30PM-9:30PM
• Location: Nearby the Tree
  
• Address: 32A Sanlitun Bar Street Xi Jie, Chaoyang District, Beijing  (Behind 3.3) 三里屯酒吧街西街 32A
• Tel: 64131522/87

*DFBW is a bi-monthly speaker and networking event organized by Wokai to bring together like-minded people to discuss social issues in China.

Wokai Background:

Wokai is a not-for-profit organization committed to alleviating poverty in China. Wokai (wo3kai1 我开 in Chinese) means “I start” and refers to the the opportunity that our organization provides to Chinese micro-entrepreneurs to start small businesses, start change in their own lives, and lift themselves and their families out of poverty. www.wokai.org