Rural Charity

1. Yunnan

Yunnan is another area of concern for CRRS's rural charity projects. In the past, CRRS has initiatated several projects in Yunnan to subsidize drop-out students to go back to school. In 2010, Hong Kong representatives of CRRS made several study trips to Yunnan's Wenshan Autonomous Region near the Vietnam-Chinese border, to understand the needs of local rural villagers. By the end of 2010, CRRS formally started to implement a Student Subsidy Scheme and School-building project there.

1.1 The Baton of Love 

1.2 Construction of School Building

In mid-February 2011, CRRS(HK) donated RMB 800,500 to Mugang Primary School located in Muyang Town, Funing County to build a new Classroom Building (total construction area 1780 square metres). Upon completion, the school will be renamed“信望愛蘇葉琼英木杠希望小學”. The whole project requires RMB 1,350,000. Apart from CRRS's donation, remaining expenses will be borne by the local government. Construction work is currently in progress and is expected to complete in early September 2011. The completed school will be able to accomodate 400 students and over 240 boarding students. 

1.3 "Project Shine" English Summer Camp 

Videos

Learning English through singing

Song and Dance Performance in a local Cultural Festival

Staff Sharing Article -  Sunshine in Wenshan

Student Sharing - Feelings from the Summer Camp

1.4 Sponsorship of Yunnan Students to Universities

During the school year of 2010-2011, CRRSHK has launched students’ sponsorship scheme with two high schools in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Nationality Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan. At the end of the school year, CRRSHK has extended our support to university level by continuing our grant to these high school graduates. We are now sponsoring 6 former Wenshan high school graduates in 6 different universities, namely the Central University of Finanace and Economics, Harbin Institute of Technology, South China University of Technology, Sichuan University, Yunnan University and Kunming Medical University.

At the moment, CRRSHK has only raised enough fund to finance their first year of grant, we will have to continue to raise fund for them. In June 2012, it will have another 19 graduates from the two high schools. CRRSHK is also preparing for them and hoping to give hands to these rural students and their families to lift them out of poverty.

2. Guangxi 

Guangxi has been CRRS's earliest areas of concern since 2005. In 2007 and 2008, CRRS subsidized students from poor rural and mountainous areas in Guangxi to purse their dreams of going to university. Hardworking teenagers with the potential to be admitted to university were subsidized through CRRS. Besides students, CRRS also provided subsidies for training local teachers, in order to improve the quality of education there.