Meet the real needs of poverty-stricken children and teenagers
Original, GPIG, 06-09-2017
【Overview】 In 2013, in accordance with the requirements of "developing education and culture" and "mobilizing enterprises and all circles of society to participate in poverty reduction" put forward by the "China Rural Poverty Alleviation and Development Program (2011-2020)", giving full play to the advantages of child welfare charities, to meet the real needs of poverty-stricken children and relying on "Spring Bud Project", "Safe & Healthy Growth Project", the "Action to Eliminate Infants' Anemia" and other child charity projects, China Children and Teenagers Fund carried out a variety of charitable activities in various forms and extensively guided and mobilized social forces to support and participate in poverty alleviation and development. Throughout the year, China Children and Teenagers Fund raised a total of 330 million yuan of social funds and materials and spent 296 million yuan on public welfare, making a positive contribution to guaranteeing the healthy growth of rural poor children and promoting the development of education in poor rural areas. In 2013, it was again titled as a Class-5A Foundation by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
【The “Action to Eliminate Infants’ Anemia”】 Based on the remarkable social effects of the pilot work, with strong support from the All-China Women’s Federation (ACWF), the “Action to Eliminate Infants’ Anemia” received a total of 150 million yuan of financial aid from "Central Special Lottery Fund" for the period from 2013 to 2015 and became the first charity project for China Children and Teenagers Fund to successfully promote the central government to purchase services through pilot work. Since August 2013, the Central Special Lottery Fund has achieved the rolling issuance of "infant food supplement nutrition package" for 22 project counties in six provinces and autonomous regions, namely Shaanxi, Sichuan, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, started to use a new nutrition pack recipe, issued about 140,000 boxes of nutrition packages with the new recipe, issued 10,000 newly revised "Handbooks", "Training Materials" and "Parents’ Handbooks" and held trainings for 120 people from the women’s federation and health sector of the project areas.
Based on local actual situations, the project counties held 142 trainings for various types of people. In 2013, we continued to raise funds to support the “Action to Eliminate Infants’ Anemia”, issued a total of 3.77 million boxes of infant nutrition packages, benefiting 530,000 infants; carried out investigation and supervision on the product quality in the nutrition package production enterprises and wrote the mid-term research report after careful analysis. According to the report, the prevalence of nutritional anemia of the infants of 6-36 months of age who took the nutrition packages for more than six months generally declined by 5 percentage points, and this prevalence in Ningxia dropped by 10 percentage points. Welcomed by local people and parents of infants and young children, the program was known as a warmth-delivery project to benefit the infants and young children in poor areas and was selected as “excellent case of innovative social poverty alleviation” by LGOP.
【Spring Bud Project】 In 2013, the “Spring Bud Project” continued to improve the teaching and learning environment and students’ living conditions in poor areas from various angles based on poverty alleviation by education, set up a total of seven Spring Bud schools, subsidized 18,866 students, donated for the construction of 563 bright classrooms, held trainings for 50 Spring Bud school teachers and provided financial aid for the 97 big girls to launch their own businesses; launched the "Bud Protection Action" focusing on funding the security protection of little girls, held four workshops on sexual health education 400 parents of students and secondary vocational schoolgirls, made propaganda on public welfare in a special column of the "People's Daily", formulated the "Children's Self-care Manual" and "Parents’ Handbook" and issued them to the left-behind girls and parents for free to improve their security awareness and ability. The "Spring Bud Project – Bud Protection Action" was honored as a good innovation to the legal protection system for the healthy growth minors by the Comprehensive Management Office of the Central Government, the CYL Central Committee and China Law Society.
【Safe & Healthy Growth Project】"Safe & Healthy Growth Project" continued to thoroughly implement the child nutrition and safety education subsidy projects, donated child nutrition food worth 17 million yuan and 179,000 child public insurance cards for orphans and poor children, donated for the construction of 52 Ankang libraries and 72 child safety experience classrooms, subsidized 678 HIV-infected children to receive treatment and trainings and 149 poor children to receive amblyopia treatment; and continued to provide living expenses for 556 homeless and needy children from Shuangliu Ankang Home affected in Wenchuan Earthquake to complete their primary, secondary school, high school and university studies until the completion of the highest education.In 2013, "Safe & Healthy Growth Project" further expanded the aid range of major diseases among children with high prevalence and fewer aid resources, and had provided financial aid for nine children with hemophilia, ten hearing-impaired children and one child with cerebral palsy from needy families.
【Child welfare action in quake zones】 After the "4•20" Lushan Earthquake, we immediately turned to the women’s federation for information on post-disaster child rescue and children’s learning and living situations and timely allocated 500,000 yuan of funds and 300,000 yuan of clothing for the affected areas. Meanwhile, we created a special web page on disaster-relief action to help the children affected by the earthquake in Ya’an of Sichuan and issued information in seven media including the Sina and Tencent to call for donations from all circles of society; raised donations of 31.48 million yuan for the disaster areas in Lushan, and transported ten batches of urgently needed medicines, food, stationery and living goods to disaster areas. To meet the needs of affected children, we donated for the construction of 45 Ankang libraries and 34 child safety experience classrooms, and provided learning and living subsidies for 793 disabled, injured and needy children in disaster areas.
【"Caring Trips in Beautiful China"】To deeply understand the new changes in needs of children in the new era, comprehensively present the effectiveness of children's charity projects and build a platform for social forces, especially donors to participate in project monitoring, from June to December 2013, the large-scale public service activity of the "Caring Trips in Beautiful China" invited donation units and individuals, the relevant media and kind-hearted people to form a caring group to pay a return visit to child charity brand projects in 26 counties (cities) of ten provinces (autonomous regions) in the northwest, North China, southwest, northeast and central China, namely Henan, Gansu, Qinghai, Shanxi, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan, Guizhou Heilongjiang and Jilin, held over 20 donation, visit and other charity activities for needy children and families and donated a total of more than 50 million yuan, delivering the love and warmth of the party and government to local residents, welcomed by the masses of local area.The program of "Caring Activity in Beautiful China – Learning from Leifeng by One Million Spring Bud Students" continued to provide voluntary services, carry out the activity of learning from Leifeng to become a good teenager and give lectures on reaction to the book "Complete works of Lei Feng" in 29 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities). After careful evaluation by the provincial, regional and municipal women's federations, 90 teenagers were titled as Good Teenagers Learning from Leifeng with lofty ideals, fine qualities and high academic achievements, helpfulness and the spirit of self-improvement. In addition, we held the exchange meeting and summer camp activity to mobilize children and teenagers to carry forward the spirit of Lei Feng and establish the good quality thinking of socialist core value from childhood.
【Eternal Love Action】 In 2013, we carried out a variety of donation activities to meet the needs of different groups of needy children. The "Eternal Love Action" themed on looking for caring parents to weave knit sweaters for orphans and disabled children was continuously implemented in 27 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps to deliver warmth to orphans and disabled children. Over the past nine years, the project has organized the weaving of 690,000 sweaters and received more than one million pieces of caring clothing for 615,000 registered orphans nationwide. The sports public project of "Let Me Play" for left-behind children carried out a variety of sports activities in 8 communities and 443 schools of 23 provinces (municipalities), including the sports training camps, inter-school competitions, experiential sports games, etc., creating a favorable environment for the sports and growth of children from various angles. Over the past seven years, the program had benefited more than one million children. The large-scale public welfare activity of the “Sound of Music - I Want to Go to University”, which was designed to address the learning and living difficulties of needy children, continued to call on all circles of society for caring about needy children left behind relying on the broadcast advantages and star effect. By mobilizing audience to donate, in 2013, the program subsidized 2856 needy children left behind in Guizhou and Qinghai Province and donated the construction of 12 "Homes of Left-behind Children" to promote the children’s healthy physical and mental growth.
Original, GPIG, 06-09-2017
【Overview】 In 2013, in accordance with the requirements of "developing education and culture" and "mobilizing enterprises and all circles of society to participate in poverty reduction" put forward by the "China Rural Poverty Alleviation and Development Program (2011-2020)", giving full play to the advantages of child welfare charities, to meet the real needs of poverty-stricken children and relying on "Spring Bud Project", "Safe & Healthy Growth Project", the "Action to Eliminate Infants' Anemia" and other child charity projects, China Children and Teenagers Fund carried out a variety of charitable activities in various forms and extensively guided and mobilized social forces to support and participate in poverty alleviation and development. Throughout the year, China Children and Teenagers Fund raised a total of 330 million yuan of social funds and materials and spent 296 million yuan on public welfare, making a positive contribution to guaranteeing the healthy growth of rural poor children and promoting the development of education in poor rural areas. In 2013, it was again titled as a Class-5A Foundation by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
【The “Action to Eliminate Infants’ Anemia”】 Based on the remarkable social effects of the pilot work, with strong support from the All-China Women’s Federation (ACWF), the “Action to Eliminate Infants’ Anemia” received a total of 150 million yuan of financial aid from "Central Special Lottery Fund" for the period from 2013 to 2015 and became the first charity project for China Children and Teenagers Fund to successfully promote the central government to purchase services through pilot work. Since August 2013, the Central Special Lottery Fund has achieved the rolling issuance of "infant food supplement nutrition package" for 22 project counties in six provinces and autonomous regions, namely Shaanxi, Sichuan, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, started to use a new nutrition pack recipe, issued about 140,000 boxes of nutrition packages with the new recipe, issued 10,000 newly revised "Handbooks", "Training Materials" and "Parents’ Handbooks" and held trainings for 120 people from the women’s federation and health sector of the project areas.
Based on local actual situations, the project counties held 142 trainings for various types of people. In 2013, we continued to raise funds to support the “Action to Eliminate Infants’ Anemia”, issued a total of 3.77 million boxes of infant nutrition packages, benefiting 530,000 infants; carried out investigation and supervision on the product quality in the nutrition package production enterprises and wrote the mid-term research report after careful analysis. According to the report, the prevalence of nutritional anemia of the infants of 6-36 months of age who took the nutrition packages for more than six months generally declined by 5 percentage points, and this prevalence in Ningxia dropped by 10 percentage points. Welcomed by local people and parents of infants and young children, the program was known as a warmth-delivery project to benefit the infants and young children in poor areas and was selected as “excellent case of innovative social poverty alleviation” by LGOP.
【Spring Bud Project】 In 2013, the “Spring Bud Project” continued to improve the teaching and learning environment and students’ living conditions in poor areas from various angles based on poverty alleviation by education, set up a total of seven Spring Bud schools, subsidized 18,866 students, donated for the construction of 563 bright classrooms, held trainings for 50 Spring Bud school teachers and provided financial aid for the 97 big girls to launch their own businesses; launched the "Bud Protection Action" focusing on funding the security protection of little girls, held four workshops on sexual health education 400 parents of students and secondary vocational schoolgirls, made propaganda on public welfare in a special column of the "People's Daily", formulated the "Children's Self-care Manual" and "Parents’ Handbook" and issued them to the left-behind girls and parents for free to improve their security awareness and ability. The "Spring Bud Project – Bud Protection Action" was honored as a good innovation to the legal protection system for the healthy growth minors by the Comprehensive Management Office of the Central Government, the CYL Central Committee and China Law Society.
【Safe & Healthy Growth Project】"Safe & Healthy Growth Project" continued to thoroughly implement the child nutrition and safety education subsidy projects, donated child nutrition food worth 17 million yuan and 179,000 child public insurance cards for orphans and poor children, donated for the construction of 52 Ankang libraries and 72 child safety experience classrooms, subsidized 678 HIV-infected children to receive treatment and trainings and 149 poor children to receive amblyopia treatment; and continued to provide living expenses for 556 homeless and needy children from Shuangliu Ankang Home affected in Wenchuan Earthquake to complete their primary, secondary school, high school and university studies until the completion of the highest education.In 2013, "Safe & Healthy Growth Project" further expanded the aid range of major diseases among children with high prevalence and fewer aid resources, and had provided financial aid for nine children with hemophilia, ten hearing-impaired children and one child with cerebral palsy from needy families.
【Child welfare action in quake zones】 After the "4•20" Lushan Earthquake, we immediately turned to the women’s federation for information on post-disaster child rescue and children’s learning and living situations and timely allocated 500,000 yuan of funds and 300,000 yuan of clothing for the affected areas. Meanwhile, we created a special web page on disaster-relief action to help the children affected by the earthquake in Ya’an of Sichuan and issued information in seven media including the Sina and Tencent to call for donations from all circles of society; raised donations of 31.48 million yuan for the disaster areas in Lushan, and transported ten batches of urgently needed medicines, food, stationery and living goods to disaster areas. To meet the needs of affected children, we donated for the construction of 45 Ankang libraries and 34 child safety experience classrooms, and provided learning and living subsidies for 793 disabled, injured and needy children in disaster areas.
【"Caring Trips in Beautiful China"】To deeply understand the new changes in needs of children in the new era, comprehensively present the effectiveness of children's charity projects and build a platform for social forces, especially donors to participate in project monitoring, from June to December 2013, the large-scale public service activity of the "Caring Trips in Beautiful China" invited donation units and individuals, the relevant media and kind-hearted people to form a caring group to pay a return visit to child charity brand projects in 26 counties (cities) of ten provinces (autonomous regions) in the northwest, North China, southwest, northeast and central China, namely Henan, Gansu, Qinghai, Shanxi, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan, Guizhou Heilongjiang and Jilin, held over 20 donation, visit and other charity activities for needy children and families and donated a total of more than 50 million yuan, delivering the love and warmth of the party and government to local residents, welcomed by the masses of local area.The program of "Caring Activity in Beautiful China – Learning from Leifeng by One Million Spring Bud Students" continued to provide voluntary services, carry out the activity of learning from Leifeng to become a good teenager and give lectures on reaction to the book "Complete works of Lei Feng" in 29 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities). After careful evaluation by the provincial, regional and municipal women's federations, 90 teenagers were titled as Good Teenagers Learning from Leifeng with lofty ideals, fine qualities and high academic achievements, helpfulness and the spirit of self-improvement. In addition, we held the exchange meeting and summer camp activity to mobilize children and teenagers to carry forward the spirit of Lei Feng and establish the good quality thinking of socialist core value from childhood.
【Eternal Love Action】 In 2013, we carried out a variety of donation activities to meet the needs of different groups of needy children. The "Eternal Love Action" themed on looking for caring parents to weave knit sweaters for orphans and disabled children was continuously implemented in 27 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps to deliver warmth to orphans and disabled children. Over the past nine years, the project has organized the weaving of 690,000 sweaters and received more than one million pieces of caring clothing for 615,000 registered orphans nationwide. The sports public project of "Let Me Play" for left-behind children carried out a variety of sports activities in 8 communities and 443 schools of 23 provinces (municipalities), including the sports training camps, inter-school competitions, experiential sports games, etc., creating a favorable environment for the sports and growth of children from various angles. Over the past seven years, the program had benefited more than one million children. The large-scale public welfare activity of the “Sound of Music - I Want to Go to University”, which was designed to address the learning and living difficulties of needy children, continued to call on all circles of society for caring about needy children left behind relying on the broadcast advantages and star effect. By mobilizing audience to donate, in 2013, the program subsidized 2856 needy children left behind in Guizhou and Qinghai Province and donated the construction of 12 "Homes of Left-behind Children" to promote the children’s healthy physical and mental growth.
