1. Our Beginning | |||||||||
"Friends of Guangming Poverty Alleviation through Education Committee" was incorporated in 1996 as "Hong Kong Friends of Guangming Association", a charitable organisation with the tax exemption status under Section 88 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance. |
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2. Our Mission and Operation | |||||||||
All our staff and directors in Hong Kong serve on a voluntary basis, without incurring any administrative cost, in order to distribute our donations fully and directly to our donees. Our directors and members are responsible for their own liaison and travel expenses. We collaborate with other organisations for the betterment of social and educational development in China. We promote our poverty allevation projects to people in Hong Kong, while also bringing in overseas resources to China. |
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3. Our Scope of Service | |||||||||
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Over more than ten years, we have raised several million Hong Kong Dollars for various infrastructures in poverty-stricken areas in China, which includes the rebuilding of disadvantaged middle and elementary school facilities. For details (in Chinese), please click here. |
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We have offered various material forms of assistance in Northern Guangdong, Shaanxi and Yunnan, such as clothings, beddings, teaching equipments, musical instruments, sports equipments, food and books. Moreover,
we have liaised with other organizations in developing their poverty alleviation
projects, such as scholarships for tertiary students by Lisac International,
English teaching training course by Centre for Cross Cultural Services,
First Aid training course by medical team. |
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Despite
our limited resources, we have presented the urgency for poverty alleviation
in China to friends far and near, and have arranged volunteers from Hong
Kong, Macau and overseas to serve in an array of services (such as training,
teaching, visits and medical services), as an attempt to promote international
exchanges. |
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4. Our Future | |||||||||
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5. Our Organisation Chart, Project Selection and Financial Procedures | |||||||||
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6. Our Past Chairmen and Advisers | |||||||||
7. Our Current Board of Directors and Advisers | |||||||||
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8. Our Local Partners | |||||||||
Qingyuan (1993-2005) - Our pioneer one-to-one high school sponsorship and related projects started in Qingyuan, northern Guangdong with the help of Mr Gao Yong, then principal of the Guangming Experimental Middle School, and his dedicated team of retired teachers. The story was captured in the book Witnesses to Power (Tetsunao Yamamori and Kim-kwong Chan, 2001). Shaanxi (1996-2013) - More than two dozen projects from pioneering sheep farming, school reconstruction, to counselling teacher training have been successfully implemented with the help of Mr Su Ming, former vice-chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee of Shaanxi Province. Upon his retirement, Mr Su continued working with us through Shaanxi Soong Ching Ling Foundation of which he was vice-chairman on voluntary terms. Yunnan - Weixi (2003-2007) - More than a dozen educational projects including literacy classes for adults, were completed in just a few years with the help of Rev Yu Wenliang, head of the Yunnan Protestant Church (i.e. chairman of the TSPM and CCC), for Tibetan, Lisu and various etho-groups. Yunnan (northwest) (present) - Recent efforts have been focused on serving various humanitarian needs of mountain sojourners through a local social services group in a sensitive manner. |
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