Bulletin No. 1, 2013

Let’s Build a Bridge 13  To raise awareness about the garbage problem, the team held a waste management campaign. They showed locals how to segregate waste and mobilized over a hundred villagers and students to clean up garbage and take it outside the village for handling. In the last event, they were joined by Professors Sung and Griffiths. Professor Griffiths believes treating modern non- biodegradable waste is an increasingly serious problem for Dangzheng village, observing that ‘the campaign and discussions had provided at least a moment of reflection by village heads that something needed to be done.’ The teachers and students of the School of Public Health also journeyed to the village clinic to learn about the health situation of villagers and China’s rural health care system. As the area is under threat of earthquake and flood, a questionnaire survey was conducted at households and disaster preparedness kits were distributed to raise disaster prevention awareness.