Charlotte Otto (left), Procter & Gamble (P&G) Company's global external relations officer, gives a globe to a Tibetan student at Huanglong P&G Otto Hope School. Otto and her husband Bob personally donated to the school.

The primary school is about 380km from Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, and belongs to the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Minority Autonomous Prefecture. It is home to 260 Tibetan students and 13 teachers.

The idea of having a school named after the Ottos came after the couple visited one of the P&G Hope Schools in Western China's Qinghai Province last year, part of the 10th anniversary celebration of P&G China's support to Project Hope, the largest charitable education program in China.

The Huanglong P&G Otto Hope School marks the second Hope School in China sponsored by individual P&G employees. The first is the Cless Hope School in Zhangbei County, North China's Hebei Province, which was sponsored by Karl-heinz Cless, the Geneva-based vice president and general manager of P&G's Cosmetics and Fragrances Distributor Markets, and his family three years ago.

(China Daily 09/24/2007 page8)