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P&G donates 7.5 million yuan

The world's leading personal care and daily necessities manufacturer Procter & Gamble (P&G) donated 7.5 million yuan to the China Education Development Foundation this month to launch a new phase of an oral health education program for Chinese children.

Starting from 1998, P&G has injected around 300 million yuan in the program covering school education, education materials and teachers' training and social causes. For the new phase, from 2008 to 2012, P&G will strengthen its cooperation with the foundation to enrich the educational content and expand the coverage to rural areas. P&G has vowed to earmark a total of 200 million yuan to support the program.

Olympic museum

The Hong Kong Jockey Club will help develop an Olympic museum at one of the equestrian venues after the Olympic Games is over.

The non-profit charity signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently at the opening ceremony of its Beijing clubhouse to make an unspecified donation to the Hong Kong Olympic Museum.

The largest private donor of charity funds in Hong Kong, founded in 1884, has invested HK$800 million ($100 million) into the Hong Kong equestrian venues and has been named as the Outstanding Contributor to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Equestrian Events.

CNPC aids schools

China National Petroleum Corporation has donated 500,000 yuan to the 2008 Oasis Action to support education in poverty-stricken areas.

The Oasis Action is an all-Chinese charity campaign jointly initiated by China Green Foundation, National Forestation Environmental Protection Committee, Chinese Educators Association of Macao, Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers and Beijing People's Broadcasting Corporation. Since the campaign began, a total of 2.5 million yuan has been raised to aid students living in the desert and arid areas of eight provinces and autonomous regions in West China and to improve the teaching conditions of local schools.

Charity Blue Book

The Charity Development in China Blue Book will be published by the end of April, according to the Organizing Committee of China Charity Board.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs and Philanthropy Times began The Annual China Charity Board in 2004 The blue book is a review of the five sessions of the board and discusses the experience and developing trend of China's charity efforts.

(China Daily 04/28/2008 page8)