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OCEF捐款人服务组义工Tom近期走访了大海子小学（又名石笋小学，以学校附近山边的一块大石头形状而得名）。大海子学校位于贵州省大方县达溪镇，是离达溪镇最远的村小，2011-2012年间由文学城网友通过OCEF捐助修建。从贵阳去大海子小学，坐长途汽车需要大约四个半个小时。

大海子小学自从去年六一开学以来，目前学生达到107人。其中20来名为学前班，从这些学生身上，学校没法获得生均补贴（约500元/人/年）。除了罗校长外，现有老师四名，两名为特岗老师，收入约为2600元/人/月，全部政府提供，两名为半特岗老师（代课老师），政府支持1600元/人/月，其余600-800元/人/月来自学校得到的生均补贴，收入略低于特岗老师。以大方县和毗邻的织金县为例，代课老师人数不少，但因为各种原因，比如计划生育不达标，即便通过老师资格考试，永远都没法转为特岗。

学校现有五个年级和一个学前班，教室三间，老师办公室一间，老师宿舍一间，还有新建的厨房和食堂。自从贵州全省村小实施午餐计划，所有学校在去年九月前按要求全部新建了食堂和厨房。但由于大海子小学食堂现在没有配置任何桌椅，学生均在教室用餐。

学校采用复式教学，学前班和六年级合用一个教室，一年级和四年级合用一个教室，二年级和三年级合用一间（暂无五年级学生）。教师办公室有电脑一台和打印机、电视机、复印机等基本教学工具，也能上网。见到的两位学校老师自己均有电脑。罗校长有近30年的教学经验，而且善于利用网络寻找公益资助，解决学校的经费短缺问题。去年文学城网友提供的冬衣给地处高地、冬天寒冷的大海子小学同学提供了很大的帮助。倒是每次得到公益机构大包小包的资助，罗校长不得不用他的摩托车一次次的从大方县城拉回物件。去年冬衣到达的时候，天寒地冻，地上全是冰霜，他摩托车拉了两次才拉回学校。

学校拥有的图书大概只有一百本不到，都被学生们翻得破破烂烂。老师们提到如果能得到一些图书的话，会给学校很大的帮助。OCEF建议在每个班里搞一个图书角，多一个图书架和部分图书可以放在老师办公室。

Tom, a volunteer with the Donor Services Team of OCEF, recently visited Dahaizi Primary School (a.k.a. Shisun Primary School, after a stalagmite-shaped rock formation on a hillside nearby), the most remote school in Daxi Township, Dafang County, Guizhou Province.  It takes a 4.5-hour bus ride to travel from the provincial capital of Guiyang to the village where the school is located.  The school house was built in 2011-2012 with a generous donation from netizens of Wenxuecity.com through OCEF.

Since Dahaizi School opened for enrollment on June 1st last year, 107 students have registered, including about 20 kindergarteners, for whom the school does not get the standard government subsidies of 500 RMB per person per year.  There are currently four teachers in addition to Headmaster Luo.  Two of them are permanent post holders, who make roughly 2600 RMB a month each, funded by the government; the other two are in temporary posts and earn a lower salary at roughly 1600 RMB from the government plus 600-800 RMB from the subsidies that the school receives.  In Dafang County and the neighboring Zhijin County, there are many temporary teachers who will never obtain permanent positions—even if they pass the certification test—due to a variety of reasons, such as failing to meet the government's family planning requirements.

Dahaizi School currently has three classrooms to accommodate five grades and a kindergarten class, an office and a dormitory for the teachers, as well as a newly established kitchen and dining room.  After the Lunch Program was launched in rural Guizhou elementary schools, all schools in the province had built kitchens and dining rooms by last September per requirement of the program.  However, students at Dahaizi School are taking lunch in classrooms since no tables or chairs are available in the dining room.

The school has adopted a combined approach for teaching; the kindergarteners and the six graders share the same classroom, as do the first graders and the fourth graders as well as the second graders and the third graders (no fifth grader attends the school at this time).  The teachers' office is equipped with a PC, printer, television, and copier, and has access to the Internet.  The two teachers Tom met also have their own computers.  Headmaster Luo has nearly 30 years of teaching experiences and is very good at using the Internet to look for public and charitable funds to fill gaps.  Winter clothes donated by Wenxuecity.com netizens last year have been a great help to the students, as it gets bitterly cold at this high elevation in winter.  A challenge for Headmaster Luo is that he has to transport all donated materials from the county seat with his own motorcycle, which sometimes requires multiple trips.  It took him two trips, for example, to bring the winter clothes back last year over icy roads.

There are fewer than 100 books available at the school, all in very poor shape due to extensive usage.  The teachers mentioned that additional books would be a major boost for the school.  OCEF recommends that a book corner be established in each classroom, with a bookshelf and some of the books placed in the teachers' office.

OCEF目前在网上收取捐款的方法，有以下几种：

• 通过Paypal服务，可接受来自Paypal帐号（包括捐款人帐号所连接的银行帐号或信用卡）的捐款或信用卡直接捐款，向OCEF收取的费用约为3-4%左右；
• 通过Google Checkout服务，可接受来自Google Checkout帐号的信用卡捐款，向OCEF收取的费用约为3-4%左右；
• 通过JustGive.org，NetworkForGood.net和Razoo.com等非营利中间机构代收捐款的服务，可接受捐款人信用卡捐款，向OCEF收取的费用为3-4.5%。

从2013年初开始，非营利机构Paypal Giving Fund（以前叫做MissionFish）也开始提供代收捐款的服务。对比JustGive.org和NetworkForGood.net而言，这项新的服务有以下不同之处：

• OCEF不需要付额外的费用，捐款100%转给OCEF；
• 从任何国家捐款，自动将外币按当时汇率转换成美元，方便捐款人和OCEF；
• 捐款人不需要付额外的费用；
• 捐款人必须拥有Paypal帐号；
• 捐款人可以使用信用卡捐款，但要将信用卡连接到Paypal帐号。

这项服务与直接捐款到OCEF的Paypal服务不同之处在于：

• 捐款人可以选择每月自动定额捐款（见下图)；
• OCEF不会被收取手续费；
• OCEF收到捐款的时间会比捐款人实际捐助时间滞后数天至数周，因为Paypal Giving Fund代收的捐款每月一次集中转给OCEF。

这项服务已经在OCEF网站有简单介绍：https://www.ocef.org/donation。

通过这个新的服务捐款的直接链接为：https://www.paypal-donations.com/pp-charity/web.us/charity_i.jsp?id=23539&s=3。

Currently, there are several ways to donate to OCEF online:

• Through PayPal services, from the donor's PayPal account (and the bank account or credit card linked to it) or directly from the donor's credit card, for a fee of approximately 3-4%;
• Through Google Checkout services, from the donor's credit card via Google Checkout account, also for a fee of approximately 3-4%;
• Through non-profit intermediaries such as JustGive.org, NetworkForGood.net and Razoo.com, from the donor's credit card, for a fee of approximately 3-4.5%.

At the beginning of 2013, the non-profit organization PayPal Giving Fund (previously known as MissionFish) started to collect donations on behalf of recipients such as OCEF.  Compared to JustGive.org and NetworkForGood.net, this new service features the following distinctions:

• No fees will be charged to OCEF, and 100% of the donations will go to OCEF;
• Conveniently for both donors and OCEF, donations can be made from any country with any currency, which will be converted to U.S. dollar at the current rate;
• No additional fees to donors;
• Donors must have PayPal accounts;
• Donors can make donations with credit cards, but they have to linked to the PayPal accounts.

The main differences between this new service and the existing donation mechanism through PayPal are:

• Donors can set up recurring monthly donations (see illustration below);
• No fees will be charged to OCEF;
• There will be a few days or weeks of delay before a donation is credited to OCEF, because PayPal Giving Fund accumulates the funds and transfer them to OCEF once a month.

A brief overview of this service can be found on the OCEF website:https://www.ocef.org/donation.

Donors can access the new service through this link: https://www.paypal-donations.com/pp-charity/web.us/charity_i.jsp?id=23539&s=3.

2013年6月号／June 2013

Overseas China Education Foundation/海外中国教育基金会

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