for once, I can't actually reprint the whole email.
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> Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 01:32:42 -0700
> Subject: Half the Sky Earthquake Update - May
> 18-19
> To: "Grant Balfour" <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
> From: "Jenny Bowen" <xxxxx@halfthesky.org>
>

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> Deyang and Nanchong Social Welfare Institutions
> both have received
> notification that they should prepare
> immediately to receive newly
> orphaned children. All the children are living
> in tents. HTS will provide
> additional tents, beds and other requested
> items.
>
> Guangyuan SWI � The children remain in tents.
> They were notified that
> they will be receiving several newly orphaned
> children (perhaps 50-60)
> very soon.
>
> Shifang saw many of its schools destroyed,
> hundreds of children and their
> teachers buried. They sent us this
> heartbreaking story during the rescue
> efforts at Hongbai Primary School:
>
> "'We found him!' Teacher Zhang Huibing's body
> was finally discovered,
> frozen in a posture of pushing against the door
> frame. According to the
> students saved by him, when the earthquake
> happened, Teacher Zhang was on
> the platform of the classroom on the second
> floor, which was very near the
> door. He yelled to the students, 'Run outside!
> Hurry!' And he somehow
> held the door frame up with both arms as the
> children ran out, one by one.
> Just as all the students were safely evacuated,
> the building collapsed on
> him. Teacher Zhang, who was only 30 years-old,
> had a four-year-old child
> of his own."
>

More here, if you can take it.