IMMEDIATE RELIEF EFFORTS

Following the devastating 5.12 earthquake, CTEF’s field coordinator in HongKong, Ms. Hoi Wah Ho traveled to several of the hardest hit communities in early June. With the help of CTEF’s partner, 512 NGO Service Center in Chengdu, Ms. Ho was able to assess the situation on the ground and provided much needed volunteer training and coordination services for the immediate relief work.

ZHENG SHAN KOU CENTRAL SCHOOL IN MEISHAN, SICHUAN

Zheng Shan Kou Central School is about 45 miles to the southwest of Sichuan capital, Chengdu. It provides education from the first grade to ninth grade for more than 450 students from 9 villages. Many students walked over 12 miles of hilly road each way to reach school, bringing flash lights and sticks since the sky was dark when they came back to home.

The school buildings were seriously damaged by the earthquake. CTEF has committed over 819,000 RMB (USD $120,000) to improve the dorm, student bathrooms, dining hall, and a playground.

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WANG YUAN VILLAGE SCHOOL IN QINGCHENG, GANSU

Teaming with Sowers Action, CTEF donated RMB 378,000 (USD $55,588) to rebuild the Wangyuan Village Elementary School in the Qingcheng County of Gansu Province. The project involved two classroom buildings (362.4 square meters), one dormitory building (181.2 square meters), and 90student desks and chairs. The project was completed on April 28, 2009. The school is now named after CTEF and Sowers Action.

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OUR FREE SKY LIBRARY PROJECTS IN PENGZHOU, SICHUAN

CTEF partnered with Our Free Sky, a non-profit organization in China, and donated thousands of books to two earthquake impacted schools in Pengzhou, Sichuan.

• 5420 books to Pengzhou Guihua Elementary School, worth of RMB 27,327 (USD $4,019)
• 4213 books to Pengzhou Hongyan Elementary School, worth of RMB 20,949 (USD $3,080)

The books were delivered to these two schools by OFS volunteers on October 7, 2008.

HELPING 150 EARTHQUAKE STUDENTS IN DEYANG, SICHUAN

In November 2008, CTEF sponsored four Stanford University MBA students to visit the Sichuan earthquake site for earthquake relief opportunity research. They visited schools in Deyang, Mianzhu, and Shifang in Sichuan and introduced a project to CTEF – sponsoring 150 students who suffered the most from the earthquake through the partnership with China’s Committee for the wellbeing of the Youth in Deyang.

After months of contract preparation and selection of students, CTEF reached an agreement with Deyang’s Committee for the wellbeing of the Youth and committed to deploy RMB 100 per student per month to cover the cost of study and living allowance for 150 students, who were seriously injured or lost their family in the earthquake. The first batch of money has been delivered to these students in July 2009.

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