Overseas China Education Foundation Newsletter
Issue 2, 2004
Dec 2004
Please send comments and suggestions to ocef@ocef.org
Address:
USA:OCEF, P. O. Box 772436, Houston, TX 77215-2436, USA
China: Jianchao Bian, 上海市徐汇区宛平南路71弄5号202室, P.R. China, 200032
Editors: Heng Huang, Xiaofan Huang; Proofread by Jingjing Dai
The original materials from: Jing Sun, Haoyu Guo, Wenxin Sun, Yuting Miao, Xi Tan, Xiao Xu, Quntian Wang, Qian Liu, Hongbin Zhu, Hesong Cai, Lin Lin, Bo Jiang, Zhongmin Zhou, Jianhua Deng, Xiaodong Yang, Jie Chen, Yao Feng
Headlines
· The News Brief
· Foundation Progress Bulletin
§ US Affairs Groups
§ China Affairs Groups
· Special Reports
§ The Investigation in Gansu
§ The Work Diary in Luwo Town, Guizhou
§ A Discussion in the OCEF Rainbow Forum
§ Letters from a Donor and a Sponsored Student
· Appendix 1 Donation Report (01/2004 – 06/2004)
· Appendix 2 Donation Report from North California Chapter (03/2004 – 06/2004)
· Appendix 3 Tang Jiying Calligraphy Charity Sale
· Appendix 4 Company Matching Fund
· Appendix 5 The Result of Final Review of Students’ Application for 2004 - 2005 Academic Year
· Appendix 6 The Summary of Investigations in 2002 – 2004
· Appendix 7 New Book Purchasing and Magazine Subscribing for Reading-Rooms
· Appendix 8 The Investigation of the Reading-Room project
The Overseas China Education Foundation (OCEF) was registered in Texas as a 501 (c) (3) non-profit charity organization in April, 2001, and its former name, SOSCEF was registered in California in Oct., 1992. The OCEF is a non-political, non-profit and independent organization operated by a group of volunteers in North America. Our sole purpose is to promote education in China. Thanks to our wonderful volunteers, the OCEF has helped more than 8,000 children since it was founded in 1992. If you want to know more about us or are interested in donating, joining us or giving us advice, please visit our website at www.ocef.org.
The News Brief
·
On
Aug. 18, 2004, the evaluation of the students’ applications for the 2004-2005
academic year (09/2004 – 08/2005) was successfully completed. We received a
total of 1,808 applications (nearly 8,000 pages of forms), and approved 1,522
of them. The distribution of the approved students is as follows: 793
elementary school students and 729 junior high school students; of the total,
786 are female students and 736 are male students. They are located in 83
schools in 37 counties in 17 Provinces. Compared to the last academic year, 300
more students have been approved, plus many more locations in the mid-west and
western areas than last year. The first order of financial aid was distributed
to the sponsored students at the end of September, 2004, and the second order
will be distributed at the end of March, 2005. The financial aid contains 310
RMB (US$37.4) per elementary school student for two semesters and 400 RMB
(US$48.2) per junior high students for two semesters. A more detailed student
list has been published on www.ocef.org.
· Until Nov. 25, 2004, the OCEF has received US$116,000 in donations for 2004. Since May of 2004 when OCEF began to accept car donations, eight cars have been donated. In addition, OCEF continues to participate in the Affiliate Programs of some online companies; if customers make online purchases through the links on the OCEF website, the companies provide a certain percentage of rewards to OCEF. Due to strong publicizing, many more purchases were made through the OCEF website in the last two quarters in 2004.
·
All
local chapters and subgroups having been promoting OCEF’s cause energetically:
the North California Chapter has conducted a series of promotions and photo exhibits
in the following locations: Fremont Main Library, Northern California Chinese
Athletic Federation Tournament, Fudan Jiaoda Alumni Summer BBQ Party, Oracle
Corporation, ACSSS Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration, and Northern California Mid-Autumn
Festival and National Day of China Celebration Garden Party. The Boston Group’s
activities include promotions in the Sino-American Pharmacy Association Annual
Meeting, MIT Chinese Ball, and MIT Mid-Autumn Cruise. The Chicago group
organized a photo exhibition in the Northwest Xilin Chinese School. The
volunteers in Houston held a photo exhibition in the local Chinese Activity
Centers and Huaxia Chinese School.
· The One-to-One sponsorship program has shown great progress, and the corresponding online selection webpages were updated and reopened.
· From Oct. 1, 2004 to Dec. 31, 2004, the OCEF ran the Fall Drive Fundraising Campaign. In order to achieve the goal of supporting at least 1,700 students in the next academic year, we planned to raise at least US$40,000 in donations in three months.
· The Publication Group will publish an internal newsletter, OCEF Library Newsletter, which will emphasize organizational management as well as the Library Group and book donors.
· The Library Group has been formalizing the procedures for the application and evaluation of the Reading Rooms project and the procedures for donating books. The group was also trying to standardize the policies related to book donation and the inspection of the reading rooms. In the past year, 42 reading rooms were built for schools in Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Henan, Shang(1)xi, Shan(3)xi, Jiangxi, Hunan, Gansu, and Ningxia.
· By collaborating with “The Enlightening Education Program”, four schools were built in Sichuan and Guizhou. Two in Sichuan have passed the quality inspection, and the report for the quality inspection of both schools in Guizhou will be finished soon as well.
Foundation Progress Bulletin
US Affairs Groups
Fundraising: Up until Nov. 25, 2004, OCEF has received US$116,000 in donations (including donations collected by the North California Chapter) for 2004. Please refer to Appendix 1 and 2 for a detailed list of donors. All donations (US$3,540) through “Tang Jiying Calligraphy Charity Sale” have been received (see Appendix 3). OCEF collected donations (US$4,585) by participating in the Matching Gift Program of several companies. Since May, 2004, OCEF began to accept car donations, and received 8 cars so far. The participation of Affiliate Programs of participating companies was a success, for example, income from Amazon.com was US$704 (from the 4th quarter of 2003 to the 3rd quarter of 2004). The OCEF estimated to collect over US$500 in the fourth quarter of 2004 by the Affiliate Programs. The number of donations increased rapidly in the last several months. Please continue supporting OCEF in this way and publicizing this news for us. The detail information is located in http://www.ocef.org/shopping.html. In the past 4 months, the Grant Program of the OCEF in Google.com has been searched 74,882 times, and www.ocef.org has been visited 1,061 times through Google Free Browse Service.
Human Resource: Since the set-up of Human Resource (HR) Group in May, 2004, the group continues to standardize operation process. The key types of work of this group include: recruiting and training new volunteers, maintaining and updating volunteers’ records, knowing and fulfilling the needs of all the OCEF groups, managing Rainbow Forum, and providing services for over 340 foundation volunteers.
Until now, HR group has built up a quite comprehensive database for volunteers and a standardized procedure for recruiting and training new volunteers. The current focuses of this group are: (1) continuing to improve the volunteer’s database for various query demands; (2) assisting Secretary Group to build up a Progress Reporting System; (3) strengthening the collaborating and communicating with other groups, and standardizing the related models; (4) encouraging all volunteers to submit their Volunteer Application Forms.
Publications: The third issue of The Village Kids will be published soon. From this issue, supported students in secondary schools will be added on top of the primary school students as new audience. Some advanced essays will be added to broaden the readers’ views. The new essays include “Raising chicken and ducks to earn my tuition fee” and some pieces from “our voices” concerning discussions. In the coming issue, the work of drafts collection/collating/composing/arts will be more regulated and editors of the columns should be independently in charge of the articles.
Many students wrote letters to the publication group to share their various thoughts; moreover, they showed strong interests in scientific problems. Also, in replying to letters, the volunteers found that there were many psychological problems in some students: such as a girl writing in her letter about bad relationship between her parents due to poverty and alcohol addiction). To relieve the psychological pressure of students and create more positive attitudes, some related issues will be carried on in the next couple of journals.
To diversify the journal, good essays and viewpoints are welcomed. The group is open to any new suggestions.
For more details, please visit http://www.ocef.org/cgi/lb5000/leoboard.cgi. Emails: villagekids@ocef.org
Translation (English Materials): As a subgroup of Publication group, Translation group was set up on Aug. 4, 2004, and there are currently eleven group members. By Oct. 7, this group has translated four documents: (1) the English version of OCEF 2003 Financial Statements which has been published on www.ocef.org; (2) The OCEF flyer in English for the fundraising in the 2004 - 2005 academic year. Based on the Chinese version of the flyer, the English version is especially designed for English-speakers. (3) The English version of the OCEF newsletter No. 12. (4) The translation of captions for 300 photos in the photo exhibition. Moreover, this group is currently updating the FAQ in the English Version of the OCEF website, and they are also preparing the materials for the Fall Drive fundraising.
During the last several years, the foundation has been noticing the urgent need for pursuing support and donations from non-Chinese communities. However, the foundation materials in English are really limited, while the translation group is still very small for the heavy workload. The work of translation group is especially suitable for those volunteers located remotely, where the only requirement is access to the Internet. If you are good at English and you are interested in the work in translation group, you are welcome to join! Please contact with Human Resource group for details (hr@ocef.org).
Web Technology: During the period from Aug., 2004 to Oct., 2004, the team continued to strengthen the collaboration within the group and improve its services. With help from the HR group and other related members, this group recently recruited some new volunteers to work on the management, maintenance and development of the web system. Now, the development work is going very smoothly, the information system for donors and donations and the system for the “One-to-One” program are both nearly completed and to be accomplished before the end of 2004. Moreover, this group is assisting China Affairs groups to generate the procedures to digitalize the paper-media files. They also developed an Auto-Document-Processing System. The Email-Server of the foundation has been up stably over a half year with over 100 personal and group accounts registered. The scale of the user-group of the Email-Server is increasing steadily, and the server makes operation of the OCEF and works of volunteers more convenient. The Web group submitted a proposal for two new tasks: the preliminary design of the Report Mechanism for Project-Implement/Task-Process-Management, and the specification and optimization of the function of Web group. The group is inquiring for the comments and advice for the proposal.
The
Northern California Chapter: Since its foundation in Feb. 2004, members of
the Northern California Chapter increased to over 30 members, making their work
easier. The members carried on the
tasks actively, such as building the
“membership/donators service” group to facilitate the donations in California;
creating the Internal online working platform project/ Translation project/
Excellent poor students in high schools scholarship project/ One to one
donation project and finished separate tasks as websites administration,
students checking and students data inputting.
On the other hand, the Northern California Chapter emphasized publicity and donations. By joining activities held by the Chinese Society in the Bay area, the Chapter gained more recognition. In the meanwhile, the members in the Chapter gained experience from various activities and collected opinions from the Chinese Society. As a result, this communication improved the work of the OCEF. The Chapter took advantage of many companies in Silicon Valley to promote its donation program to the employees there. Through informal relationships, the Chapter recruited some leading members to support the work. During last 7 months, about $15,000 were collected by the Chapter.
A series of Photo exhibitions were also held by the Chapter in different locations in Northern California, with approximately 300 selected photos. The tough living conditions and situations of poverty children in donated areas were shown to the public through those photos. The OCEF projects were also introduced to the public. The photos were widely used by other OCEF chapters in the U.S. Accordingly, these prompted large-scale cooperation among the different groups.
The Boston group: There are now 20 members in the Boston group. In late June 2004, the group held an exhibition concerning donations for poor Chinese students during the SAPA (Sino-American Pharmacy Association). Additionally, the group publicized the role of the OCEF in the Chinese Ball of MIT and the barge play on the Moon Day.
The Chicago group: The Chicago group was founded in Sep. 2004, which comprises of dozens of members. The group held “the Bumpy Road to School--Reaching Out to Impoverished Children in China” Photo Exhibition in Northwest XiLin Chinese School. In order to save cost, the pictures were exhibited on line with slides and particular websites. The audiences could surf the Internet to see the pictures of different provinces. Several hundred parents and their children were attracted to the exhibition. Many audiences showed their willingness to support the work of the OCEF. The group collected $464.25 in donations through the exhibition. In the meantime, they were invited to hold same exhibitions in Lake Country of Northwest XiLin Chinese School on 11/21/04.
Reviewing of student applications: In 2004, 1808 applications were sent to the OCEF, which came from 176 schools scattered in 19 provinces. The application checking group finished the examination of the supported students list (2004-2005). In this list, 1522 students qualified (see Appendix 5 for details). The group gradually improved the internal regulations, and created a series of systematic procedures covering from original examinations to secondary checking.
The original checking of student applications was conducted by a particular examination group. The group is composed of voluntary donors and members of the OCEF. They received related training through telephone meeting, and were then chosen by the Board according to the regulations. Original checking staff tried their best to find and solve potential problems: such as errors, mistakes, false information or contradictions in the applications. During this time, the head of the staff negotiated the process and reported difficult problems to the double-checking group. The original checking was completed by 07/20/04 and the outcomes were saved in the local server of the OCEF. The report was then submitted to the head of the group. Undoubtedly, the thorough reports were crucial to the checking. The suggestions of the original checking group greatly improved the future work.
The double-checking was finished on 07/31/04 in Houston. The members in the group are: Gan Liang, Jing Sun, Benchu Zhou, Shiyi Chen, Jiashu Liu, Xiao Hu, Xiaojing Yao and Xiaohu Shan. The group integrated the the outcome of the first checking, unified criteria of the selection, and discussed some particular problems. Consequently, they determined the supported students list in 2004. In early August, the final list was decided by the OCEF executive board. The decision made at the same time also stated that the work on western areas /poverty areas in China would be emphasized from 2005: some supported places in eastern China would be cancelled gradually; some supported places were cancelled as well, which are in Jiangsu Zhejiang and Tibet and Yunxi Secondary School in YueYang, Hunan Province. Combined donations would be sent to the schools in Pingjiang, Hunan.
Inspection
group: To ensure OCEF
integrity and effectiveness, the inspection group continued to send inspectors
to visit the supported schools, to confirm the students’ situation 
and the selections and distributions
of the donation. From January to July 2004, the inspector groups visited more
than 20 places, over 40 schools and more than 500 families. They confirmed that
all supported schools utilized the donations in the right way. Most of the
schools chose the students and distributed donations following OCEF
regulations. Most inspectors visited all families they were in charge of. The details of inspectors working during
2002-2004 can be found in Appendix 6.
Inspectors investigated the economic situation of supported areas, student information of the individuals and families, which are important criteria to student applications and selections. Inspectors collected some additional information (such as poor high school students, the shabby school buildings) and assisted the OCEF in applying the special donation properly. Moreover, the inspector group gave good suggestions to the operation of the foundation such as: the application/scope/amount of future donations,how to improve the communication between the foundation and the inspectors, and how to guarantee the optimization of the donations.
Library Program: The library group has
been gradually setting up systematic business procedures and a volunteer team
with strong commitment. The library group, during the last year, has
established forty-two libraries for high schools or primary schools in the poor
rural areas (provinces of Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Henan, Shanxi, Shanxi,
Jiangxi, Hunan, Gansu, Ningxia and etc). In addition, the library group keeps
motivating other communities and individuals with similar educational
assistance tendencies, to fulfill the ambitious mission.
The OCEF donates two different types of libraries: the regular library, which has a larger collection of old books and a smaller collection of new books, and the special library, which contains new books. The old books in most regular libraries are collected from metropolis cities or ordered from internet, supplemented by subscribed magazines and special books. Some of the libraries are co-funded with other organizations. During the past year, twenty-nine libraries with collections of both old books and new books were established, four of which were donated by the OCEF and other organizations. Book donations increased up to 12,500 copies.
On the other hand, the special library is established under the donors’ explicit instructions. A donator, Mr. Zhao, donated $6000 to the library program for Henan province in 2004. At the height of the endeavor from local volunteers, 10672 copies, or RMB180000 in total value, were purchased for eleven special libraries located in Lushi and other areas of Henan province. Fifteen special libraries were established in the past year. More detailed information about the book donations and magazine subscriptions are given in the appendix 7.
The donors and volunteers focused on the good use of donated libraries. Under the negotiation with schools prior to the library donation, the OCEF requires schools to guarantee at least three opened days per week. Moreover, the library group is devoted to finalizing audit regulations, intensifying audit strength, and extending audit coverage. Five schools, in the past year, have been audited (appendix 8). They are creating opportunities by all means to fully utilize the library facilities. The library audit, listed in the audit schedule, is being administrated and performed directly by Audit Group in 2005.
Special Projects: In 2004, by collaborating with “The Enlightening Education Program”, four schools were built: Pangtudi Xianshu Primary School, Jinbao Town, Jialing District, Nanchong City, Sichuan; Nianpanwan Jiyan Primary School, Anfu Town, Jialing District, Nanchong, Sichuan; Wenggan Primary School, Bailong Town, Pingtang County, Qiannan Buyi and Miao peoples’ District, Guizhou; Jiaoma Changyi Primary School, Changshun County, Qiannan Buyi and Miao’s District, Guizhou.
The cost of these four schools is US$11,000, and the constructions were all completed. The two in Sichuan have passed the quality inspection, and the report for the quality inspection of the two schools in Guizhou will be finished soon. Due to the complexity of the School Construction Project and the ultrahigh requirements for the local volunteers, unless we have excellent local volunteers, the OCEF will mainly collaborate with “The Enlightening Education Program” to construct new schools. The special projects also include work to improve the educational conditions of schools in poor areas. In the future, the special projects will focus on standardizing the support for improving of the educational conditions.
Special Report
The inspection in Gansu: In Sep. 2004, an OCEF volunteer Mr. Zhongmin Zhou visited Yuzhong and Zhenyuan areas in Gansu. During the visit, he took many photos, and finished a series of reports including “Trip in West”. These reports from the frontier provided the crucial information for the evaluation and inspection of the OCEF, and offered the vivid materials for the future fundraising.
There
are 322 students in the 6 classes in Weiying Junior Middle School, Yuzhong
County. One third of the students are living in the school dormitories. The
dining room of the school provides meals twice a day, and the meals are
only noodles! 1 RMB (12 pennies) per big bowl, and 0.5 RMB (6 pennies) per
small bowl. Some students have dry steam buns as breakfast. Some poor
students’ expense on meals is only 5-10 RMB (US$0.6-1.2) per week. Yuzhong
County in Gansu is one of the poorest counties in the entire area .The
average precipitation per year is only 350mm, while the evaporation is
1450mm per year. The annual average temperature is 6.7oC (44F),
and there are only 120 frostless days.
Work Diary at Luwo, Guizhou Province: Jianhua Deng, a volunteer from Guizhou Provice, joined the OCEF in March 2004. He submitted a financial aid application for Dashitou Primary School at Luwo on April 8. Six month later, on Oct 11, 2004, he distributed the financial aid to 43 students. The voluntary activities during the half year have been recorded as follows.
On March 7, (Mr. Deng) applied for a volunteer position at OCEF, and introduced the current educational situation of Luwo to the OCEF in detail.
On March 23, (Mr. Deng) submitted library assistance applications for Da-shi-tou Primary School, Xi-an Primary School and Weng-she Primary School. After evaluation, the OCEF supported to Xi-an Primary School and Weng-she Primary School.
On April 1 and 2, (Mr. Deng) visited Da-shi-tou village to survey and interview students with harsh financial situations;
On April 8, (Mr. Deng) resubmitted an application for Da-shi-tou Primary School;
At the end of April, Xiaofeng Tong, an OCEF volunteer, visited Luwo. His visit and his report to OCEF substantially affected the approval of financial support to Da-shi-tou Primary School;
May 20-26, after being advised that the OCEF approved financial support to Da-shi-tou Primary School, (Mr. Deng) surveyed for six days in the mountain area, and understood the backgrounds of Primary School students with serious financial assistance needs;
At the end of May, (Mr. Deng) organized all the applications, and submitted files about fifty two students to the OCEF. Forty-five applications were approved but the aid distribution was not scheduled;
Jun 12, 22, at the beginning of May, the Library Group Shanghai branch sent out over 1000 books in three shipments. They were distributed to Xi-an Primary School and Weng-she Primary School, respectively;
At the beginning of July, the Shanghai branch sent out 35 book bags;
At the end of August, (Mr. Deng) were advised the financial aid was scheduled to distribute in the middle of September;
On Sept 17, (Mr. Deng) were advised by Lan Mu, a volunteer at the Library Group Shanghai branch that 100 Xing Hua Dictionaries were donated and already shipped to Guiyang;
In the middle of Sept., (Mr. Deng) received financial aid distribution materials and instructions mailed by Hua Zhang, a volunteer in Beijing. On Sept 27 (Mr. Deng) received the aid mailed by Mr. Jianchao Bian, a volunteer in Shanghai;
On Oct 11, followed by the procedures issued by the OCEF, the aid distribution ceremony was held in Da-shi-tou Primary School. The financial aid, in total RMB 6665, was distributed to 43 students.
On Oct 16, (Mr. Deng) mailed to Mr. Jianchao Bian the aid receipts and other documents.
Discussion on the Rainbow BBS:
The Rainbow BBS (http://www.ocef.org/cgi/lb5000/leoboard.cgi) is a platform where the OCEF members, donors, and warm-hearted people concerned about education in China’s rural areas communicate and exchange views about educational aid. Since its foundation in 2003, the BBS has received more than 24,400 postings. Two interesting postings are as follows. Shall the Foundation have full-time stipendiary staff? ‘Treeindesert’ raised this question on the Rainbow BBS regarding how to improve the Foundation’s efficiency and professionalism. He proposed that the Foundation should recruit full-time staff in China, because the country is abundant in talented people, whose income is relatively low. The full-time staff should be responsible for the OCEF’s daily affairs and liaison between China and the US. The payment for these staff is a small proportion of the OCEF’s funds, but it will make a significant difference to the foundation’s efficiency and professionalism. The OCEF always encourages people to express different opinions, and this topic immediately aroused passionate discussion. Most volunteers think that professionalism is the foundation’s long-term goal. However, it is not easy to achieve this goal as long as the Foundation is neither large nor financially strong enough. In addition, this practice is inconsistent with what we stress in our guiding principle: “All staff members are volunteers”. Everybody agrees that if the foundation recruits full-time staff, staff selection is the most important issue. Some people suggested that the foundation should look for retired people or working people who have stable jobs, sufficient time and are interested in education aid. Furthermore, two or three people should share the key work of the Foundation to reduce the impact of floating staff on the foundation. Nevertheless, such discussion will surely benefit the foundation’s healthy development.
A check to OCEF – from Xiaoshihutu: One month ago, I found in my mailbox a check of more than $400, which I had sent to an American named Richard, six months ago, to compensate him for the damage to his car. It happened on a night two months ago. I went to the airport to meet someone and accidentally bumped into a rolling car when I backed my car. I thought at the moment that this accident would surely cost a lot. A tall Caucasian man got out the car and I rushed off my car to check the damaged car’s model and its condition. Luckily, it was an inexpensive Buick and only a small piece of paint had been scratched off. I was relieved and decided to solve the problem myself. The American asked me: “Do you have insurance?” I said yes and immediately gave my insurance card and telephone number to him. I didn’t want him to ask for compensation from my insurer, so I said that he could have a repair shop assess the loss and I would pay the repair fee. Finally, I sincerely apologized.
One week later, Richard called me and faxed the assessment to me: it totaled $417. I agreed right away and drafted a compensation agreement the next day, saying that no action would be taken against me after he received the compensation. After he signed the agreement I faxed to him, I immediately send him a check with a brief letter thanking him for handling the problem amicably with me.
Then after two weeks, as I said at the beginning, Richard sent the check back. I was very confused and guessed he might want to ask for more in case he had found another repair shop which gave a higher estimate. After carefully examining the check and finding no problem, I believed that the guy wanted to fleece me of more money, because nobody would give up compensation after his car was damaged! But later I checked the envelope and found a note: “I have found another repair shop and they did not charge me for repairing the car.” I was deeply moved. What an honest man! He did not accept the money even when the check had been sent to him. I called him immediately and he said that he had found the car could be fixed without replacing the front fender, which hardly cost him any money, and he had no reason to accept the check.
Actually, he wasn’t wrong if he had accepted the check according to the first repair shop’s assessment, but he didn’t. And he could have donated the money to some organization, but he didn’t. He just sent the check back to me, which I guessed was due to my initial sincerity. So I said to him on the telephone that I decided to donate the $417 to a charity organization to help those in need. Richard was very glad to hear that.
After inspecting many educational aid organizations, I decided to donate the check to OCEF, and I hope that OCEF will keep making progress and help more children in poverty gain access to education and have better future.
A Letter from a sponsored child: Do you have sweet memories of your childhood? Have you ever considered the difference between urban and rural areas? Let’s read the letter from a lovely girl from Jiangxi Province in Southern China to share her dreams for life.
Dear Aunt Rainbow,
Greetings!
I want to thank everybody in the Foundation for sending children’s books to me, which I found very helpful and instructive.
Dear Aunt Rainbow, do children in the foundation and cities really see fewer things than we do? Please let me know if they want to see something that they cannot see in cities, and we will try our best to find it and send it to you. Thank you very much for helping me and providing me financial aid and children’s books. This helped me a lot in my studies, and I really appreciate it.
Do you know, I won the first prize in the girls’ 400-meter sprint event in our school’s track meet 2003.
Aunt Rainbow can you help me correct a bad habit? I always write wrong characters. Can you help me? I know that Aunt Rainbow will surely help me correct the bad habit. I want to thank you again, Aunt Rainbow and everybody in the foundation. I will never forget your help!
Best wishes,
Liu Qiong
Yingping Primary School, Suichuan County, Jiangxi Province
June 26 2004
Appendix 1 Donation Report (01/2004 – 06/2004
|
Donor |
Amount |
Donor |
Amount |
Donor |
Amount |
|
EPIC System Corp. (WI) |
$3,700 |
Chang, Shining (VT) |
$2,100 |
He, Thomas (Cananda) |
$1,920* |
|
Shi, David (DE) |
$1,165 |
A P V N (NY) |
$1,000 |
Hsu, Poching (Taipei) |
$1,000* |
|
Anonymity_Z-K (CA) |
$1,000 |
Chou, Jackson (TX) |
$800 |
Cui, Jirong (TX) |
$500 |
|
Qian, Bin (WA) |
$500 |
Wei, Lei (TX) |
$500 |
Anonymity_L-WB (TX) |
$500 |
|
Cui, Chi (FL) |
$440 |
Li, Zhuolin (WA) |
$412 |
Wang, Caren (CA) |
$400* |
|
Zhu, Dan (NC) |
$400 |
Chou, Penchu (TX) |
$300 |
Jin, Tao (TX) |
$280 |
|
Ooi, Wan Hin (TX) |
$280 |
Rentright, Inc. (OH) |
$250 |
Anonymity_L-HH (CA) |
$248* |
|
Xia, Chenyi (Singapore) |
$230* |
Synopsys (NJ) |
$225 |
Hang, Yuan (MD) |
$207* |
|
Chi, Shihong (TX) |
$200 |
Deng, Wendy (TX) |
$200 |
Elaine Zhang (MA) |
$200 |
|
Hubbard, Scottlynn (CA) |
$200 |
Ku, Hungting (TX) |
$200 |
Lau, Ying Tak (TX) |
$200 |
|
Lim, Tang/Song, Liguo |
$200* |
Liu, Xiaoyan (CA) |
$200 |
Pan, Xiangjun (TX) |
$200 |
|
Ren, Chuyu (NJ) |
$200 |
Wang, Qian (CA) |
$200 |
Wang, Quntian (CA) |
$200 |
|
Wei, Dong (CA) |
$200 |
Xu, Yongzhong (CA) |
$200 |
Yan, Jamie/Grace Li (MA) |
$200 |
|
Yang, Dixia (OH) |
$200 |
Yao, Wenqing (PA) |
$200 |
Zhang, Tong (OK) |
$200 |
|
Zheng, Joanna (NJ) |
$200 |
Zu, Xiaomin (FL) |
$200* |
Anonymity_L-CJ (IL) |
$180 |
|
CSSA-Univ. of Cincinnati |
$170 |
Chen, Shunglung (NY) |
$160 |
Song, Steve (TX) |
$140 |
|
Gene’s Machine (TX) |
$125* |
Li, Yingmin (VA) |
$125* |
Chen, Sining (NC) |
$120 |
|
PK Manufacturing (TX) |
$120 |
Su, Lu (VA) |
$120 |
Ye, Jiankuan (NJ) |
$120 |
|
Zhang, Ping (Germany) |
$120 |
Anonymity_L-Q (CA) |
$120 |
Yu, Maoshu (CO) |
$111* |
|
Hu, Xiao (TX) |
$110 |
Song, Liang (CA) |
$103* |
Wang, Kai |
$103* |
|
An, Rachel (MD) |
$100 |
Chen, Di (CA) |
$100 |
Chen, Jinying (IL) |
$100 |
|
Cheng, Lirong (England) |
$100* |
Cui, Bianxiao (CA) |
$100 |
Cui, Qun (CT) |
$100 |
|
Gao, S (MA) |
$100 |
Han, Jianxin (NE) |
$100 |
Huang, Weifeng (TX) |
$100* |
|
Hwang, Peter (TX) |
$100 |
Jia, Pengcheng (CA) |
$100 |
Jiang, Q (IN) |
$100* |
|
Jiang, Tommy (TX) |
$100* |
Kong, Fang (GA) |
$100* |
Kuo, Paula (TX) |
$100 |
|
Leung, N-N (FL) |
$100* |
Lin, Zhigong (TX) |
$100 |
Liu, Baoshun (TX) |
$100 |
|
Liu, SH (MD) |
$100 |
Lu, Xiaohui (MA) |
$100 |
Luo, Tao (TX) |
$100 |
|
M & T Investment Group |
$100 |
Miao, Jing (MA) |
$100* |
Pei, Chunfeng (CA) |
$100 |
|
Shan, Tiger (TX) |
$100 |
Shao, Yu (CA) |
$100 |
Shen, Delin (MA) |
$100 |
|
Sun, Jing (TX) |
$100 |
Sun, Sally (TX) |
$100 |
Tsang, Nicole |
$100 |
|
Wang, Xiaolin (CA) |
$100* |
Weekend_C-Z (CA) |
$100 |
Xiao, Yan (CA) |
$100 |
|
Yan, Allen (TX) |
$100 |
Yang, Minmin (AL) |
$100 |
Yang, Xiuping (CA) |
$100* |
|
Zdun, James (TX) |
$100 |
Zhang, Jian (PA) |
$100* |
Zhang, Ming (TX) |
$100 |
|
Zhang, Xianjie (CA) |
$100 |
Zhang, Yi (CA) |
$100 |
Zhang, Zihong (TX) |
$100 |
|
Zhou, Weijie (TX) |
$100* |
Zhuo, Haihong (TX) |
$100 |
Anonymity |
$100* |
|
Anonymity_C-JY (WI) |
$100 |