Since 2000, the Foundation has provided scholarships for over 140 school girls in remote western China, where their opportunities and resources are extremely limited.

The Foundation collects funds and worked closely with a community-based non-profit partner organization in Shaanxi. Our local agent’s team conducts annual research trips into the mountains to qualify applicants and referees based on family need among daughters of a group of villages. In the fall, they distribute the cash funds to the girls, whom we call the Guanlan Sisters, to pay for the school fees their families can’t raise.

The Foundation maintains records of each scholarship recipient’s family need status and educational advancement. The scholarship recipients write to us each year describing how they are growing and progressing through school, how their families are doing, and what their hopes are for the future.

The Foundation works entirely on a volunteer basis, so every cent we raise goes to the girls in need.

Dr. Seeberg, Foundation founder and president, and Foundation team members regularly visit with our partner, the scholarship recipients, and their families to understand how their lives are developing, if they are safe, in school, or gainfully employed or otherwise doing well. We also stay in touch with the Guanlan Sisters on various Chinese language social media platforms.