A Letter to OCEF Donors and Volunteers

Dear supporter of OCEF,

You may already heard the tragic earthquake occurred in Sichuan Province, China, on May 12, 2008.

As an organization, although focusing on education in rural China, Overseas China Education Foundation (OCEF) wants to do anything possible to provide help to the people in that area. An emergency resolution has been passed regarding this matter by OCEF board on May 15. The resolution states that OCEF will collect donations from all possible sources, then direct such donations to reliable charity organization(s) in China, such as Red Cross Society of China, for the purposes of immediate disaster relief, as well as post-disaster recovery.

We call for donation for this cause. Your support is sincerely appreciated.

Please also spread the words in your communities so that those who are willing to help will receive such message. OCEF is a charity organization under IRS 501(c)(3) article. Donations made to OCEF are eligible for tax exemption.

Donations can be made in any of these forms:

• You may send personal check, Money Order, or Cashier Check made to Overseas China Education Foundation to the following address:

Overseas China Education Foundation
P. O. Box 772436
Houston, Texas 77215-2436, USA

• You may use your credit card to make a donation through the following link at Justgive.org (Justgive.org will charge a fee of 3%, that means OCEF will receive 97% of whatever you donate):

http://www.justgive.org/giving/donate.jsp?charityId=8250&

• You may use Paypal to send money to account paypal@ocef.org (Paypal usually charge a fee of no more than 2.5%, we are in negotiation with Paypal for a fee waiver)
  

Please make a note on the donation that this is for "2008 Sichuan" or "China Earthquake". If you prefer to remain anonymous, please make a note on the donation. Otherwise, we'll publish all the donations with donors' names in a timely fashion.

We also set up a web space at http://www.ocef.org/sichuan2008 for flexible and instant information publishing and sharing of this donation drive (Most contents are in Chinese language). Formal announcements will still be published on http://www.ocef.org/.

If you have any questions, please send email to 2008sichuan@ocef.org, or call (281)-506-2018 to leave a voice message.

We thank you for your caring and kindness.

Gan Liang

President
Overseas China Education Foundation