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Mme. Gu Xiulian, vice-president of ACWF with the
wife of the Ambassador of Libya during the interview.
The children presented their self-made paper cuttings
to Mrs. Nehad R. Sukayri,
Chairperson of the Group and wife of the Ambassador
of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
The Ambassadors' Spouses were enjoying Chinese
traditional hand-pulled noodles.
Dec. 30th, 2002 is the day when the Arab Ambassadors'
Spouses' Group in Beijing made donation to MiLiangTun
Elementary School at YanQing County. Before starting
to the School, Mme. Gu Xiulian, vice-president
of ACWF friendly met with the members of the Group,
talked about the friendship between Chinese Women
and Arabic Women and expressed her gratuities
on behalf of ACWF to the Group for their efforts
to support the girl's education in the poor area
in China. After that, the Group accompanied by
Mrs. Long Jiang Wen , deputy director general
of the International Liaison Dept. and other staff
of ACWF went to the school to donate. The donation
of 45,000RMB was from the charity sales of the
Group. Mrs. Nehad R. Sukayri, Chairperson of the
Group and wife of the Ambassador of the Hashemite
Kingdom of Jordan was delighted in supporting
Chinese education and wished a further development
of friendship and cooperation between Chinese
Women and Arabic Women.
At lunchtime, Ambassadors' Spouses were very interested
in learning to make dumpling and enjoyed Chinese
food culture such as hand-pulled noodles, food
carving and etc. After lunch, they visited the
Asia game village's community, watched the performance
of Chinese dancing, opera and fashion show by
the residents of the community, went around the
library and calligraphy-painting club and even
sang a song with the chord.
Among those Group members presenting at the activities
were the wives of ambassadors from 12 countries
including Jordan, Libya, Somali, Palestine, Mauritania,
Lebanon, Qatar, Syria, Djibouti, Tunisia, Algeria
and Yemen.
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