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What part are my sisters in China playing today?
Under the leadership of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, we are working in almost everything from the government down, in war-relief work, care of war orphans, refugee work, first aid workers and cooperatives. In Canton I saw the girl-soldiers, who are very famous. (Describe) In Changhsha, I saw girls being trained as first-aid workers to accompany the mobile units going to the front to take care of China's wounded soldiers. In Hankow, Madame Chiang herself was training girls in first-aid classes and sending graduates to serve at the front. In Chungking, China's present war-time capital, during the May bombings, the women were organized to help bring immediate relief to the victims of the bombings.

All war work being done in China is under the direction of the Chinese Women's Advisory Committee. China has 100,000 war orphans and 6 millions homeless refugees. Chinese women are takeing care of about twenty thousand war orphans in forty special homes. The Committee is also in charge of the famous cooperative movement in China among women, who are being taught trades in the interior. (Explain) For example, a handicraft school was established in Chungking consisting of junior middle school graduates, who are being taught to direct handicraft projects in many provinces. In one city in Szechwan Province, 1200 women were organized into cooperatives. These women are taught to spin cotton and wool yarn and to weave cloth. The finished products are sold in cooperative stores.