Homeless children find homes - and hope
By Wang Zhuoqiong | China Daily | Updated: 2008-04-10 07:23
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American volunteer Avery Briggs teaches a child English in the Guang'ai School in Beijing last November. The school, founded in 2004, provides free education and accommodation to homeless, disabled and poor children. The country has about 1 million homeless children, latest available figures from the Ministry of Civil Affairs show. Lu Zhongqiu |
Authorities' efforts to beef up housing facilities for homeless children in the country's major cities to keep them from crime are seeing results but more is needed, a Ministry of Civil Affairs official told China Daily yesterday.
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