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Updated: 2009-04-13 07:48

(China Daily)

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Spring Rain Project

Long-distance education website Chinaedu.com, an affiliate of Hongcheng Education Group, has donated eight sets of educational resources to the Spring Rain Project and launched 11 aid stations to assist in education in rural areas of China.

The 11 aid stations will be located in eight middle and primary schools in Gansu and Hebei provinces.

As a public welfare program of the International Scientific Exchange Foundation of China, Spring Rain Project aims to make modern information education accessible to all children and to promote a scientific aid program in middle and primary schools in the less-developed regions. To date, Spring Rain Project has established more than 180 scientific aid stations in 10 provinces in China.

Donation box campaign

The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) has issued a proposal letter for a program called the Dandelion Initiative, in a bid to bridge the gap between public concern and those in need.

RCSC said it hopes to make everyone's love spread, root, and bloom like the seeds of a dandelion by building a smooth channel for individual donors. For this purpose, it called on public venues such as hotels, banks, shopping malls, supermarkets, subways, schools and office buildings to offer free locations for its donation boxes. In addition it urged companies, business undertakings and social groups to offer as much help as possible.

Reconstruction

The reconstruction of Beichuan Middle School, one of the schools that sustained the most damage in the May 12 Sichuan earthquake, will start on May 12, the first anniversary of the quake.

The new school, mostly funded by donations of 200 million yuan from overseas Chinese, will cover about 13 hectares and is expected to enroll more than 5,000 students, according to the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese.

Officials will choose a design from submissions by leading universities including Tsinghua and Tongji as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Hong Kong University.

(China Daily 04/13/2009 page10)